From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78817 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Schulte Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus creating Mail directory Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 19:33:33 -0600 Message-ID: <87r58283qt.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87fwp2p5er.fsf@psinom.home> <87ei4mhybk.fsf@gmail.com> <87r58mjc0c.fsf@gmail.com> <87pqo6gifn.fsf@gmail.com> <87pqo6rn7j.fsf@psinom.home> <30mxj92oj4.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <8762pxrn8m.fsf@psinom.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305336911 10153 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2011 01:35:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 01:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: prad Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27117@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 14 03:35:07 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 1QL3l3-0002Dj-2U for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 03:35:05 +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 1QL3kV-0003vM-HI; Fri, 13 May 2011 20:34:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QL3kT-0003v7-Qa for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 13 May 2011 20:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QL3kJ-0007Vf-A4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 13 May 2011 20:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QL3kH-0001x7-F7 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 03:34:17 +0200 Original-Received: by pwi5 with SMTP id 5so2211194pwi.17 for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 18:34:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:cc:subject:date:references:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=XR3u4hMxRFAHdz7C9jRc5YTLBoTtu+kJrTIAEySDe+M=; b=YBRkIkOYMgtXM4hoTQM6D6Hu0UOVUvgT9LDQ7n5KjhR8EA/SlIrigkuOps2DtPE++Y 15/j6Wjk1wzCj1fNilYAVgNUS80j5NthJ3IFgIRXAlrAENIhet6l+LY7FVp7YUzqvMCV Ra8ZqfS+l4i/9OJLb4TXAqFOhb0RnhH//FtfQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:references:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; b=uDMm7zZhcdaOUQeU9ksFanEemJv+XWA3/rym5rl1RxvqC/Ycp/pJuOEuLcjH0wr0kb ptndVbTZAnYFC5HLxVWftZUjdcOT1Y30YU4cDM7jYnkZzrLzpbSZkCD/fKm7felcEt/o 0o8athsL/j2u0xGiCGzLai4nvQshdDtl95Mog= Original-Received: by 10.68.34.38 with SMTP id w6mr3213110pbi.26.1305336849583; Fri, 13 May 2011 18:34:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from bagel (c-174-56-1-147.hsd1.nm.comcast.net [174.56.1.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v6sm1705229pbe.18.2011.05.13.18.34.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 13 May 2011 18:34:07 -0700 (PDT) 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:78817 Archived-At: prad writes: > Richard Riley writes: > >> prad writes: >> >>> Antoine Levitt 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 -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/