From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78606 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus creating Mail directory Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:17:13 -0700 Message-ID: <8762pxrn8m.fsf@psinom.home> References: <87fwp2p5er.fsf@psinom.home> <87ei4mhybk.fsf@gmail.com> <87r58mjc0c.fsf@gmail.com> <87pqo6gifn.fsf@gmail.com> <87pqo6rn7j.fsf@psinom.home> <30mxj92oj4.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304097546 7767 80.91.229.12 (29 Apr 2011 17:19:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:19:06 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26908@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 29 19:19:01 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrLI-0005D9-OR for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:19:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrK6-00079m-0G; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:17:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrK4-00079b-BH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:17:44 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrJx-0004Gj-CX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:17:41 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrJt-0001ni-Nf for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:17:33 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrJs-0004FO-RD for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:17:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 70.67.160.177 ([70.67.160.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:17:32 +0200 Original-Received: from prad by 70.67.160.177 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:17:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.67.160.177 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yatvrr6QG77bCYw/TYRfdsGnF/Y= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78606 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > prad writes: > >> Antoine Levitt writes: >> >>> CCing Richard Riley, I believe he had similar issues recently, maybe he >>> understands what's going on. >>> >> richard was the one who got me on to gnus a few months ago and he was a >> big help! the funny thing is that i had everything going into ~/Mail >> without any issues then when i was on archlinux. i just switched to >> debian and used the same config files, but must have slipped up on >> something. > > I have this:- > > (setq gnus-directory "~/.emacs.d/" > mail-default-directory "~/.emacs.d/" > message-directory "~/.emacs.d/Mail/" > ) > > and I think its all in .emacs.d now ;) drafts and the queue (they are > kind of the same..) are in .emacs.d/drafts. > hmmm ... none of this worked for me. i tried (setq gnus-directory "~/.emacs.d/" mail-default-directory "~/" message-directory "~/Maildir/") and variations, but it didn't even pick up the gnus-directory in the init.el file. anyway, not a problem because everything else is working fine (though the edit menu disappears from the menubar from time to time and i haven't figured out a pattern to it yet). thx! -- in friendship, prad