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This section describes a special mail back end called nndiary
,
and its companion library gnus-diary
. It is “special” in the
sense that it is not meant to be one of the standard alternatives for
reading mail with Gnus. See Choosing a Mail Back End for that.
Instead, it is used to treat some of your mails in a special way,
namely, as event reminders.
Here is a typical scenario:
The Gnus Diary back end has the ability to handle regular appointments (that wouldn’t ever be deleted) as well as punctual ones, operates as a real mail back end and is configurable in many ways. All of this is explained in the sections below.
• The NNDiary Back End: | Basic setup and usage. | |
• The Gnus Diary Library: | Utility toolkit on top of nndiary. | |
• Sending or Not Sending: | A final note on sending diary messages. |
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