Gnus

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Freedom report

Three barsScore 6.9

Gnus is ranked #52 of 143 in email clients on Freedom251. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows. There is a free plan.

Gnus plans and pricing

Gnus Free No pricing or usage limits stated on the pages reviewed gnus.org · 11 Oct 2026

Product: Gnus is a flexible message reader that runs under GNU Emacs.
News and mail: It supports reading and composing both news and mail.
Other sources: It can use web-based sources as inputs for its groups.
MIME and charsets: Gnus is fully MIME-compliant and supports message charsets supported by GNU Emacs.
Message management: Its stated goal is to provide an efficient, extensible interface for handling large numbers of messages from different sources and in different forms.
Distribution: Stable versions of Gnus are included in the Emacs and XEmacs editors.
Development versions: The maker page points users to the Emacs Bazaar repository for leading-edge versions and the Gnus Git repository for bleeding-edge versions.
News sources: The manual describes reading news from NNTP servers or a local spool.
Mail sources: The manual documents IMAP and POP3 mail retrieval, including POP3 over SSL/TLS and StartTLS.
RSS: The manual describes subscribing to RSS feeds and importing or exporting subscriptions through OPML files.
Security features: The manual includes sections on signing and encrypting messages and on thwarting email spam.
Documentation: The Gnus manual is offered in HTML, monolithic HTML, PostScript, and PDF formats, with illustrated versions also available.
Support and community: The maker site points users to mailing lists and newsgroups dedicated to Gnus.
Price from: Free

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