From: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
To: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: gnus creating Mail directory
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:44:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqo6gifn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r58mjc0c.fsf@gmail.com> (Eric Schulte's message of "Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:34:43 -0600")
28/04/11 23:34, Eric Schulte
> Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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)
>>
>
> Even with Both of these set to "~/Mail" before calling gnus (in my
> .emacs), the "~/mail" directory is created while gnus checks-for and
> downloads my mail.
>
> Thanks -- Eric
Isn't that the expected behaviour? Or do you mean a "mail" dir
uncapitalized is created? I've never seen that before.
CCing Richard Riley, I believe he had similar issues recently, maybe he
understands what's going on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-28 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-28 19:00 prad
2011-04-28 21:15 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-04-28 21:34 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-28 21:44 ` Antoine Levitt [this message]
2011-04-28 23:05 ` prad
2011-04-29 13:08 ` Richard Riley
2011-04-29 17:17 ` prad
2011-05-14 1:33 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-28 21:15 ` Eric Schulte
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