From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78598 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Levitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus creating Mail directory Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:15:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87ei4mhybk.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87fwp2p5er.fsf@psinom.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304025635 25058 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2011 21:20:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:20:35 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26900@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 28 23:20:32 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 1QFYdT-0001g8-PI for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:20:32 +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 1QFYdI-00022j-DZ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:20:20 -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 1QFYdH-00022e-I3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:20:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QFYdG-0003xv-G3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:20:19 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QFYdD-0004bi-LA for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:20:15 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFYdB-0001Us-9R for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:20:13 +0200 Original-Received: from ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net ([78.233.218.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:20:13 +0200 Original-Received: from antoine.levitt by ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:20:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78598 Archived-At: 28/04/11 21:00, prad > i have fetchmail and exim4 delivering to Maildir. > i've set > > (setq imap-shell-program '("MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir /usr/lib/dovecot/imap")) > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > '((nnimap "Mail" > (nnimap-stream shell)))) > > all is working fine. > > however, everytime i run gnus it creates a Mail/archive Mail/drafts > > i would prefer these to exist in Maildir, but am not sure how to make > this happen. (the "Mail" i presume is just a identifying label and > doesn't determine the directory.) See the mail-default-directory and message-directory variables (which you possibly need to set before even running gnus - I set them in my .emacs)