From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84908 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christoph Groth Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: unused ~/News and ~/Mail get recreated Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:39:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2b3zrm5.fsf@grothesque.org> References: <87tx4glw1q.fsf@grothesque.org> <87fvg0vojg.fsf@yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410345669 18876 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2014 10:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:41:09 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M33152@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 10 12:41:02 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRfKe-00032J-GG for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:41:00 +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 1XRfJo-0003z6-LJ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 05:40:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XRfJm-0003yt-Tv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 05:40:06 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XRfJl-0004Yd-2l for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 05:40:06 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XRfJi-0008Us-Kq for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRfJh-0002Oc-IG for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:40:01 +0200 Original-Received: from dra38-5-82-246-248-175.fbx.proxad.net ([82.246.248.175]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:40:01 +0200 Original-Received: from christoph by dra38-5-82-246-248-175.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:40:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dra38-5-82-246-248-175.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AVTbu6UoPf0tA9/SjFK6V6Q7p4E= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84908 Archived-At: 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.