From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83729 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus downloading mails from pop again and again. Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:51:46 +0800 Message-ID: <87zjsm2qp9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87iozc7n5w.fsf@yagnesh.org> <8761vbk65d.fsf@yagnesh.org> <87li47ljjv.fsf@yagnesh.org> <87haevljcy.fsf@yagnesh.org> <8761vblc0m.fsf@yagnesh.org> <87ob939ez9.fsf@yagnesh.org> <87fvuel6t8.fsf@yagnesh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376365901 1751 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2013 03:51:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 03:51:41 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31985@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 13 05:51:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V95dz-0006oO-EF for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 05:51:39 +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 1V95dl-0004nh-9k; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:51:25 -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 1V95dj-0004nV-Fo for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:51:23 -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 1V95di-0006eS-ER for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:51:23 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1V95dg-00085k-GW for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 05:51:20 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V95de-0006Y8-Uj for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 05:51:18 +0200 Original-Received: from 114.250.121.65 ([114.250.121.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 05:51:18 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 114.250.121.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 05:51:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.250.121.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yIq5WGpmGU9Df4eucuTaOf2uyEA= X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83729 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka writes: > Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala wrote: >> Ouch. I don't have "~/Mail" at all. I intentionally deleted that >> long time ago. >> I have following setup in my .emacs to make use of "~/gnus" folder >> for all my mail/news. > >> ╭───── >> │(setq gnus-home-directory "~/gnus") >> │(setq gnus-startup-file "~/gnus/.newsrc") >> │(setq gnus-directory "~/gnus/News") >> │(setq message-directory "~/gnus/Mail") >> ╰───── > > Are those setq's really in the ~/.emacs file? > >> So why gnus looking into ~/Mail directory now.? :/ > > When fetching mails, the value of `mail-source-directory' will > be used as the mail directory. It defaults to the value of > `message-directory' (defaults to "~/Mail/"); the value you > customized will be reflected if and only if it is set in > the ~/.emacs file and no Gnus' el(c) module is loaded before it > is set. A workaround may be: > > (setq mail-source-directory "~/gnus/Mail/") > > But I don't recommend customizing such variables of Gnus' basic. > I think it may cause an unexpected influence that even the author > doesn't know. :) I've certainly tried pretty hard to do this in the past (to get everything emacs-related under "~/.emacs.d") and it never quite worked -- things occasionally, stubbornly, showed up under "~/Mail".