Re: Syncing Gnus

[Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit.list@gmail.com>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com> writes:

> OK.. now I have the values set before gnus is loaded. Much better. And
> most things seem to propery intitiate. However I *still* get a ~/Mail
> created :-
>
> ,----
> | [9096]shamrock@development:~$ ls -l Mail
> | total 4
> | drwxr-xr-x 2 shamrock shamrock 4096 Jan  8 01:29 archive
> `----
>
> My archive method is like this :-
>
> ,----
> |  (setq gnus-message-archive-method 
> |        '(nnfolder "archive"
> | 	 	  (nnfolder-directory   "~/Dropbox/.main/Mail/archive")
> | 		  (nnfolder-active-file "~/Dropbox/.main/Mail/archive/active")
> | 		  (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
> | 		  (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))
> `----

Hi Richard,

I struggled with the exactly the same problem when synchronizing
Dropbox. I was sloppy enough in my comments
                                                                      
/===
| ;; (setq gnus-update-message-archive-method t) ;; doesn't seem to work 
| as advertised, edit gnus.eld directly to have an effect                
\===

In the documentation of gnus-update-message-archive-method is stated
that gnus.eld should be updated automatically, but it is not.

So, I just replaced manually all the occurrences of ~/Mail/archive in gnus.eld
with ~/Dropbox/.main/Mail/archive .

 The main problem is that not all of gnus dirs are set from
gnus-directory as claimed in the docs (for instance
gnus-article-save-directory gnus-kill-files-directory and
gnus-cache-directory).

The nuisance with Mail/archive was really confusing. It took me ages to
figure it out. It would be nice if someone could simplify it a bit.

Best,
Vitalie.