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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.