Re: mail

[michael lamoureux <lamour@engin.umich.edu>]

 "lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

lars> Ketil Z Malde <ketil@ii.uib.no> writes:
>> IMHO, there should be two variables, say mail-directory-prefix and
>> gnus-directory-prefix or some such, which all the other variables could
>> default to.  No?

lars> I think all the Gnusey variables are initilized from the "SAVEDIR"
lars> environment variable.

Well, based on what the Info docs said were the defaults, this is what
I have set:

(setq gnus-article-save-directory "~/news/"
      gnus-kill-files-directory "~/news/"
      gnus-nocem-directory "~/news/NoCeM/"
      gnus-sent-message-ids-file "~/news/Sent-Message-IDs")

(setq nnml-directory "~/mail"
      nnmail-crash-box "~/mail/.gnus-crash-box"
      nnmail-message-id-cache-file "~/mail/.nnmail-cache")


Did I not really need to set all of those?  If the values of these
variables are based on the setting of another variable, then it was
not stated in the Info docs where the variables were discussed.  I
don't even remember seeing anything about a SAVEDIR environment
variable.  Where is it discussed?  Is there a similar thing for mail?
Is there a lisp variable that does this, or do I have to use an
environment variable?

I also have no way of knowing if I missed a variable somewhere.  And
what happens when a new variable gets added that I don't have set?  I
just want to set two variables and have everything go in either ~/mail
or ~/news.


fyi,
Michael