* Fail to set mail directories
@ 2011-06-25 22:14 Philipp Haselwarter
2011-06-26 8:39 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Philipp Haselwarter @ 2011-06-25 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Hi,
I've tried to move my gnus related directories from their default
location. For the most part, it seems to work, but there are a few
variables that seem to somehow magically get reset to the (true) default
values.
This entails for example recreation of ~/Mail/drafts/ as soon as I start
composing mail (although `nndraft-directory' points to
"~/.emacs.d/gnus/News/drafts/").
As far as I can tell, the variables concerned are:
nntp-marks-directory, message-auto-save-directory,
gnus-article-save-directory, gnus-cache-directory,
gnus-kill-files-directory
They should be set up relative to gnus-directory and friends, but it
seems that the default values of those are used.
Strangely enough, when I « C-h v message-auto-save-directory RET », I
get this:
,----
| message-auto-save-directory is a variable defined in `message.el'.
| Its value is "/home/philipp/Mail/drafts/"
| Original value was
| "/home/philipp/.emacs.d/gnus/Mail/drafts/"
|
| Documentation:
| *Directory where Message auto-saves buffers if Gnus isn't running.
| If nil, Message won't auto-save.
|
| You can customize this variable.
|
| [back]
`----
Right now, my setup is
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(eval-after-load "gnus" '(require 'my-gnus-config))
#+end_src
here's the relevant section in my-gnus-config:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq mail-default-directory
(file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "gnus" user-emacs-directory))
gnus-directory
(file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "News" mail-default-directory))
message-directory
(file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "Mail" mail-default-directory))
mail-source-directory message-directory
smtpmail-queue-dir
(file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "queued-mail" message-directory))
smime-certificate-directory
(file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "certs"
message-directory)))
#+end_src
What am I doing wrong? How do I debug this?
--
Philipp Haselwarter
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* Re: Fail to set mail directories
2011-06-25 22:14 Fail to set mail directories Philipp Haselwarter
@ 2011-06-26 8:39 ` Reiner Steib
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Reiner Steib @ 2011-06-26 8:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
On Sun, Jun 26 2011, Philipp Haselwarter wrote:
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (eval-after-load "gnus" '(require 'my-gnus-config))
> #+end_src
>
> here's the relevant section in my-gnus-config:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (setq mail-default-directory
> (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "gnus" user-emacs-directory))
> gnus-directory
> (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "News" mail-default-directory))
> message-directory
> (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "Mail" mail-default-directory))
> mail-source-directory message-directory
> smtpmail-queue-dir
> (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "queued-mail" message-directory))
> smime-certificate-directory
> (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "certs"
> message-directory)))
> #+end_src
>
> What am I doing wrong? How do I debug this?
Well, eval-AFTER-load could imply that during the loading of Gnus
(gnus.elc and many dependencies) several directory variables are
already set, i.e. derived from the original value of `gnus-directory'
and `message-directory´. So your change of `gnus-directory' and
`message-directory´ is too late.
Setting `gnus-directory' and `message-directory' should be enough. If
this isn't the case, please report it as a bug.
,----[ <f1> v gnus-directory RET ]
| gnus-directory is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
| Its value is "~/News/"
|
| Documentation:
| *Directory variable from which all other Gnus file variables are derived.
|
| Note that Gnus is mostly loaded when the `.gnus.el' file is read.
| This means that other directory variables that are initialized from
| this variable won't be set properly if you set this variable in `.gnus.el'.
| Set this variable in `.emacs' instead.
|
| You can customize this variable.
`----
,----[ <f1> v message-directory RET ]
| message-directory is a variable defined in `message.el'.
| Its value is "~/Mail/"
|
| Documentation:
| *Directory from which all other mail file variables are derived.
|
| You can customize this variable.
`----
Bye, Reiner.
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