Re: nnmail-tmp-directory

[Michael Cook <cook@sightpath.com>]

nospam2159@daimi.au.dk (Peter von der Ahé) writes:

> >>>>> "MC" == Michael Cook <cook@sightpath.com> writes:
> 
>  MC> Previously, we could set `nnmail-tmp-directory' to cause gnus to
>  MC> drop its `Incoming*' files into a specific directory.
> 
>  MC> Now, with the new mail-source stuff, gnus seems to be hardcoded
>  MC> to drop them into `mail-source-directory' (~/Mail).
> 
>  MC> Am I missing something?  Is there a way to get gnus to put these
>  MC> Incoming files into, say, my ~/tmp directory?
> 
> Set `mail-source-directory' instead.

Hmm.  The documentation for that variable says:

  Directory where files (if any) will be stored.

It doesn't say anything about these files being only scratch files
(unlike nnmail-tmp-directory, which is a pretty unambiguous name).

And because the default value for mail-source-directory is ~/Mail,
which is not a tmp-ish directory, pointing mail-source-directory at
my ~/tmp directory seems like asking for trouble.

M.