From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78600 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 23:44:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87pqo6gifn.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87fwp2p5er.fsf@psinom.home> <87ei4mhybk.fsf@gmail.com> <87r58mjc0c.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304027095 632 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2011 21:44:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, Richard Riley To: "Eric Schulte" Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26902@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 28 23:44:51 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 1QFZ11-00061I-5G for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:44:51 +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 1QFZ0b-0002GC-6y; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:44:25 -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 1QFZ0Z-0002Ft-QU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:44:23 -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 1QFZ0Y-00043W-Or for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:44:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f48.google.com ([74.125.82.48]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QFZ0X-00057W-BN for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:44:21 +0200 Original-Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so2440327wwi.5 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:44:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=jKdIoRT5ucAMbZu5bOcmNITqRhjSG15gwGR3NgFspik=; b=F3qmauYf1uPrRJvyDK52pRP0C0tKOJCXOohFR8fqipB+/K1iI1OLveO1lahF5WgFlJ mgrrl3eKaJZIukyHrkId2e19f4Xz9HB3hOfu362N5sNmRPbOSvEl9ov/wRRqRx7zq0jO zopk2LFvMom0Zvw80zKlIIXvjfBJrrbBn9tms= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=owSTUa6xZgg7HoJy3e7om2dUqDppenuvNWqGzfDrKf+8lJdKP3rxyCKVXBkoKj1DdA NaS3ocOSIqunAB29qTUs8KlYPuqxyT33z1y5HHr0cg6RgC04VauFGDsGUazDZ8yYLe8a MBg/zGqN2yoinZ1f43MOy3qvIrNDfgc2UkWYQ= Original-Received: by 10.216.80.204 with SMTP id k54mr80040wee.5.1304027055762; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from lambda (ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net [78.233.218.202]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l24sm1338400wbc.30.2011.04.28.14.44.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:44:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87r58mjc0c.fsf@gmail.com> (Eric Schulte's message of "Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:34:43 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78600 Archived-At: 28/04/11 23:34, Eric Schulte > Antoine Levitt 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.