Re: gnus creating Mail directory

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
>>
>>> Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> CCing Richard Riley, I believe he had similar issues recently, maybe he
>>>> understands what's going on.
>>>>
>>> richard was the one who got me on to gnus a few months ago and he was a
>>> big help! the funny thing is that i had everything going into ~/Mail
>>> without any issues then when i was on archlinux. i just switched to
>>> debian and used the same config files, but must have slipped up on
>>> something.
>>
>> I have this:-
>>
>>     (setq  gnus-directory "~/.emacs.d/"
>>           mail-default-directory "~/.emacs.d/"
>>           message-directory "~/.emacs.d/Mail/"
>>           )
>>
>> and I think its all in .emacs.d now ;) drafts and the queue (they are
>> kind of the same..) are in .emacs.d/drafts.
>>
> hmmm ... none of this worked for me.
>

I found the root of the problem on my system.

Old directories were persisted in my gnus.eld file, and on every run of
gnus this file is read, and re-sets variables to point to directories in
my ~/mail folder (which are then dutifully created by gnus).  Searching
and replacing in this file fixed the problem on my system.

Hope this helps -- Eric

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Eric Schulte
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