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From: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: unused ~/News and ~/Mail get recreated
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:39:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2b3zrm5.fsf@grothesque.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvg0vojg.fsf@yale.edu>

Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo wrote:

> Christoph Groth writes: 
>
>> In ~/.emacs I set the variable gnus-directory to "~/.news". I do 
>> not use nnml, only nntp and nnimap. [...] Sill, Gnus keeps 
>> recreating the ~/News and ~/Mail directories [...]  Any 
>> suggestions? 
>
> You can move the gnus-home-directory to another place. Also change 
> message-directory, because that is set by message.el, not gnus. 

Setting message-directory as well did the trick, thanks.




      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-10 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-09 14:15 Christoph Groth
2014-09-09 14:47 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-09-10 10:39   ` Christoph Groth [this message]

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