From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80833 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vitalie Spinu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Syncing Gnus Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:40:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87vconc6pr.fsf@gmail.com> References: <94nw7go3m.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325986864 9326 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2012 01:41:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:41:04 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29115@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 08 02:41:00 2012 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 1Rjhkp-0007LA-Fx for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:40:59 +0100 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 1RjhkJ-0000Wk-Vw; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:40:28 -0600 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 1RjhkI-0000We-KB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:40:26 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RjhkH-0003xo-Fx for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:40:26 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f172.google.com ([209.85.215.172]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RjhkF-0003VV-NB for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:40:23 +0100 Original-Received: by eaak10 with SMTP id k10so2546475eaa.17 for ; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:40:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date:message-id :mime-version:content-type; bh=ueWObRBlqdVxzXtKbIYgOizPDawBRK5VhLl9uREBIIA=; b=ZYZoRWJNFb3tyemdgPxVuhf4bVXEh89nZVI5vKvGIZ52HixyzZoJfx60gj3oTNivCf huZO0DQn+fx+/YOvNtWoKtLaNXbB4KPhejpgwYeuebthg+M2fzFM43op48+UJrj3OLsb DgejZKc9UgHcuffvLEziO5JvemHWMvfdcEdxc= Original-Received: by 10.213.114.74 with SMTP id d10mr77018ebq.120.1325986818177; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:40:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (e138158.upc-e.chello.nl. [213.93.138.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 19sm93861180eew.7.2012.01.07.17.40.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:40:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Riley's message of "Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:40:25 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80833 Archived-At: Richard Riley 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.