Re: nndraft directory

[jorge.a.alfaro@gmail.com (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)]

Hi Vincent.

Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> writes:

> Despite removing it multiple times, the directory `~/Mail/drafts` keep
> being recreated by Gnus. `nndraft-directory` is set to
> `/home/bernat/.emacs.d/run/gnus/drafts/`. What could recreate the
> directory?

I had a similar issue recently. I wanted to move the Mail and News
directories to another location. I did not have your problem exactly,
probably because I use nntp as my gnus-select-method and the nnimap's as
gnus-secondary-select-methods. But ~/Mail/archive kept being created
even after changing nnfolder-active-file and it was driving me crazy.
The documentation of the variable that you mention and of
nnfolder-active-file mention that they are "Gnus server variables". I
understood after reading (info "(gnus) Server Variables") that for my
case I could not set it simply with a setq, this was needed:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (setq message-directory "~/path_that_I_wanted/Mail/")
  (setq gnus-message-archive-method
        '(nnfolder "archive"
                   (nnfolder-directory 
                    "~/path_that_I_wanted/Mail/archive/")
                   (nnfolder-active-file 
                    "~/path_that_I_wanted/Mail/archive/active")
                   (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))
  (setq gnus-update-message-archive-method t)
#+END_SRC

For your case probably you have to explicitly set all the variables from
the nndraft group in a similar way. Perhaps someone can clarify server
variables further.

Best,

Jorge.