From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78599 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric Schulte" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus creating Mail directory Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:34:43 -0600 Message-ID: <87r58mjc0c.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87fwp2p5er.fsf@psinom.home> <87ei4mhybk.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304026536 29862 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2011 21:35:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Antoine Levitt Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26901@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 28 23:35:31 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 1QFYry-00016O-Gl for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:35:30 +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 1QFYrV-0002Bp-QQ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:35:01 -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 1QFYrU-0002Bd-6r for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:35:00 -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 1QFYrS-00041U-I2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:34:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pv0-f172.google.com ([74.125.83.172]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QFYrQ-0004tR-Vi for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:34:57 +0200 Original-Received: by pvh1 with SMTP id 1so3000810pvh.17 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:34:50 -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=9yV03oQvUUJ5+DIXxP2SJrHqL3KKGTNDCKmIAmo8uZk=; b=Mwbf5KPh8dqPaahKGhf6YC3RkX/5Io2Szb+l2+xvZIJliFOweT1N7WTt7dLb5KJXsr 3jmHDYl6w1zPrM1IqV5RWI1l0nm4z39zBAi/ftga7VFTo25hfM5C4yFhpDy/I6BpKndd QYNNDc0WPjE9/YktHX6mq7QoFOzHk1w5c4aU4= 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=fHPUBvl9E0GIJuGoRmARBvKDIxJiRg461TNyq1J1KzNFHUVjRYvzhki/WV17144wFe HBMTQ/OZjlCZ4st0QUPgrC7LYZCI4Uivs+h4lROKoz6tu4aeSM3y0QS1YE6tpc3l4ieU TzVLD6vd+OB3W3l7cnY2K+UWfln0cbz1ZhvFM= Original-Received: by 10.68.17.10 with SMTP id k10mr4047019pbd.357.1304026488378; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from biscuit (adaptive.cs.unm.edu [64.106.21.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c14sm1447033pbu.84.2011.04.28.14.34.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:34:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87ei4mhybk.fsf@gmail.com> (Antoine Levitt's message of "Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:15:43 +0200") 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:78599 Archived-At: 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 -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/