From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus creating Mail directory
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:34:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r58mjc0c.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ei4mhybk.fsf@gmail.com> (Antoine Levitt's message of "Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:15:43 +0200")
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
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-28 21:34 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 [this message]
2011-04-28 21:44 ` Antoine Levitt
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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