* unused ~/News and ~/Mail get recreated
@ 2014-09-09 14:15 Christoph Groth
2014-09-09 14:47 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
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From: Christoph Groth @ 2014-09-09 14:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Hello,
In ~/.emacs I set the variable gnus-directory to "~/.news". I do not
use nnml, only nntp and nnimap. The strings "News" and "Mail" do not
appear anywhere in ~/.emacs, ~/.gnus, or ~/.newsrc.eld. Sill, Gnus
keeps recreating the ~/News and ~/Mail directories:
$ find News Mail
News
News/drafts
News/drafts/drafts
News/drafts/queue
Mail
Mail/drafts
~/Mail appears when I start to compose a new message and press C-x C-s
to save the draft. The draft is saved in the proper directory
(~/.news/drafts/drafts/), but ~/Mail is nevertheless created. I did not
manage to observe when ~/News gets created.
This seems to be a bug in Gnus. I tried grepping the Gnus source code
for News and Mail, but couldn't find where the problems could sit.
Any suggestions?
Christoph
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* Re: unused ~/News and ~/Mail get recreated
2014-09-09 14:15 unused ~/News and ~/Mail get recreated Christoph Groth
@ 2014-09-09 14:47 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-09-10 10:39 ` Christoph Groth
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From: Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo @ 2014-09-09 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Hi Christoph.
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.
For example I moved them to Dropbox to keep my gnus synchronized
between machines:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq gnus-home-directory "~/Dropbox/gnus/") (setq
message-directory "~/Dropbox/gnus/Mail/")
#+END_SRC
This has to go in your .emacs, not your .gnus.el.
Best,
--
Jorge.
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* Re: unused ~/News and ~/Mail get recreated
2014-09-09 14:47 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
@ 2014-09-10 10:39 ` Christoph Groth
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Groth @ 2014-09-10 10:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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.
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