moving all gnus-related files into one directory

moving all gnus-related files into one directory

[Eric Abrahamsen]

For ease of syncing between machines, I'm trying to move all my
gnus-related files and directories into a single directory: "~/gnus". So
far I've got this in my .emacs:

(setq gnus-home-directory "~/gnus/"
      gnus-directory "~/gnus/News/"
      message-directory "~/gnus/Mail/")

This works okay, except that my .newsrc.eld files don't seem to be
getting read: marks are still incorrect (everything marked as unread)
for all my groups, and some groups can't be entered. At least, I assume
that the problem is with reading .newsrc files, though gnus-startup-file
returns "~/gnus/.newsrc".

Are there any other variables I can set to make sure everything reads
out of this one directory?

Thanks,
Eric

Re: moving all gnus-related files into one directory

[Tibor Simko]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2010, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Are there any other variables I can set to make sure everything reads
> out of this one directory?

I'm using:

(setq gnus-startup-file "~/private/gnus/.newsrc")
(setq nnmail-message-id-cache-file "~/private/gnus/.nnmail-cache")
(setq gnus-home-directory "~/private/gnus")
(setq message-directory "~/private/gnus/Mail/")
(setq message-auto-save-directory "~/private/gnus/Mail/drafts")
(setq gnus-directory "~/private/gnus/News/")
(setq gnus-cache-directory "~/private/gnus/News/cache")

Best regards
-- 
Tibor Simko

Re: moving all gnus-related files into one directory

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On Thu, Dec 09 2010, Tibor Simko wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Dec 2010, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> Are there any other variables I can set to make sure everything reads
>> out of this one directory?
>
> I'm using:
>
> (setq gnus-startup-file "~/private/gnus/.newsrc")
> (setq nnmail-message-id-cache-file "~/private/gnus/.nnmail-cache")
> (setq gnus-home-directory "~/private/gnus")
> (setq message-directory "~/private/gnus/Mail/")
> (setq message-auto-save-directory "~/private/gnus/Mail/drafts")
> (setq gnus-directory "~/private/gnus/News/")
> (setq gnus-cache-directory "~/private/gnus/News/cache")
>
> Best regards

Thanks! That got me a lot closer. So did setting the proper directory
for my archive method.

I've still lost marks for both my main "sent" group and my main "misc"
groups, which unfortunately are the two most important groups. Hitting
G E on both of those groups shows me a long list of
seen/replied/forwarded message numbers, and yet the groups themselves
show no message marks whatsoever, everything appears unread. Looking
into .newsrc.eld and .newsrc.eld~, everything seems more or less in
order there, as well. I'll keep poking, I guess…

Thanks again,
Eric