* gnus creating Mail directory
@ 2011-04-28 19:00 prad
2011-04-28 21:15 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-04-28 21:15 ` Eric Schulte
0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: prad @ 2011-04-28 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
i have fetchmail and exim4 delivering to Maildir.
i've set
(setq imap-shell-program '("MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir /usr/lib/dovecot/imap"))
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
'((nnimap "Mail"
(nnimap-stream shell))))
all is working fine.
however, everytime i run gnus it creates a Mail/archive Mail/drafts
i would prefer these to exist in Maildir, but am not sure how to make
this happen. (the "Mail" i presume is just a identifying label and
doesn't determine the directory.)
--
in friendship,
prad
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* Re: gnus creating Mail directory
2011-04-28 19:00 gnus creating Mail directory prad
@ 2011-04-28 21:15 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-04-28 21:34 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-28 21:15 ` Eric Schulte
1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Antoine Levitt @ 2011-04-28 21:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
28/04/11 21:00, prad
> i have fetchmail and exim4 delivering to Maildir.
> i've set
>
> (setq imap-shell-program '("MAIL=maildir:$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)
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* Re: gnus creating Mail directory
2011-04-28 19:00 gnus creating Mail directory prad
2011-04-28 21:15 ` Antoine Levitt
@ 2011-04-28 21:15 ` Eric Schulte
1 sibling, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Eric Schulte @ 2011-04-28 21:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: prad; +Cc: ding
Hi,
I'm having a similar problem, however in my case I keep all of my mail
in the "~/Mail/" directory, and gnus continually creates the empty
"~/mail/archive" directory, which maps to my group naming scheme, namely
mail.inbox, mail.school, etc...
I've scoured my configuration for lines which could be generating the
"~/mail" directory, but to no avail.
Best -- Eric
prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
> i have fetchmail and exim4 delivering to Maildir.
> i've set
>
> (setq imap-shell-program '("MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir /usr/lib/dovecot/imap"))
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '((nnimap "Mail"
> (nnimap-stream shell))))
>
> all is working fine.
>
> however, everytime i run gnus it creates a Mail/archive Mail/drafts
>
> i would prefer these to exist in Maildir, but am not sure how to make
> this happen. (the "Mail" i presume is just a identifying label and
> doesn't determine the directory.)
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
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* Re: gnus creating Mail directory
2011-04-28 21:15 ` Antoine Levitt
@ 2011-04-28 21:34 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-28 21:44 ` Antoine Levitt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Eric Schulte @ 2011-04-28 21:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Antoine Levitt; +Cc: ding
Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
> 28/04/11 21:00, prad
>> i have fetchmail and exim4 delivering to Maildir.
>> i've set
>>
>> (setq imap-shell-program '("MAIL=maildir:$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/
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* Re: gnus creating Mail directory
2011-04-28 21:34 ` Eric Schulte
@ 2011-04-28 21:44 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-04-28 23:05 ` prad
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Antoine Levitt @ 2011-04-28 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Schulte; +Cc: ding, Richard Riley
28/04/11 23:34, Eric Schulte
> 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
Isn't that the expected behaviour? Or do you mean a "mail" dir
uncapitalized is created? I've never seen that before.
CCing Richard Riley, I believe he had similar issues recently, maybe he
understands what's going on.
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* Re: gnus creating Mail directory
2011-04-28 21:44 ` Antoine Levitt
@ 2011-04-28 23:05 ` prad
2011-04-29 13:08 ` Richard Riley
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: prad @ 2011-04-28 23:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
> CCing Richard Riley, I believe he had similar issues recently, maybe he
> understands what's going on.
>
richard was the one who got me on to gnus a few months ago and he was a
big help! the funny thing is that i had everything going into ~/Mail
without any issues then when i was on archlinux. i just switched to
debian and used the same config files, but must have slipped up on
something.
--
in friendship,
prad
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* Re: gnus creating Mail directory
2011-04-28 23:05 ` prad
@ 2011-04-29 13:08 ` Richard Riley
2011-04-29 17:17 ` prad
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Richard Riley @ 2011-04-29 13:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
> Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> CCing Richard Riley, I believe he had similar issues recently, maybe he
>> understands what's going on.
>>
> richard was the one who got me on to gnus a few months ago and he was a
> big help! the funny thing is that i had everything going into ~/Mail
> without any issues then when i was on archlinux. i just switched to
> debian and used the same config files, but must have slipped up on
> something.
I have this:-
(setq gnus-directory "~/.emacs.d/"
mail-default-directory "~/.emacs.d/"
message-directory "~/.emacs.d/Mail/"
)
and I think its all in .emacs.d now ;) drafts and the queue (they are
kind of the same..) are in .emacs.d/drafts.
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* Re: gnus creating Mail directory
2011-04-29 13:08 ` Richard Riley
@ 2011-04-29 17:17 ` prad
2011-05-14 1:33 ` Eric Schulte
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: prad @ 2011-04-29 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
> prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
>
>> Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> CCing Richard Riley, I believe he had similar issues recently, maybe he
>>> understands what's going on.
>>>
>> richard was the one who got me on to gnus a few months ago and he was a
>> big help! the funny thing is that i had everything going into ~/Mail
>> without any issues then when i was on archlinux. i just switched to
>> debian and used the same config files, but must have slipped up on
>> something.
>
> I have this:-
>
> (setq gnus-directory "~/.emacs.d/"
> mail-default-directory "~/.emacs.d/"
> message-directory "~/.emacs.d/Mail/"
> )
>
> and I think its all in .emacs.d now ;) drafts and the queue (they are
> kind of the same..) are in .emacs.d/drafts.
>
hmmm ... none of this worked for me.
i tried
(setq gnus-directory "~/.emacs.d/"
mail-default-directory "~/"
message-directory "~/Maildir/")
and variations, but it didn't even pick up the gnus-directory in the
init.el file. anyway, not a problem because everything else is working
fine (though the edit menu disappears from the menubar from time to time
and i haven't figured out a pattern to it yet).
thx!
--
in friendship,
prad
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* Re: gnus creating Mail directory
2011-04-29 17:17 ` prad
@ 2011-05-14 1:33 ` Eric Schulte
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Eric Schulte @ 2011-05-14 1:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: prad; +Cc: ding
prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
>>
>>> Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> CCing Richard Riley, I believe he had similar issues recently, maybe he
>>>> understands what's going on.
>>>>
>>> richard was the one who got me on to gnus a few months ago and he was a
>>> big help! the funny thing is that i had everything going into ~/Mail
>>> without any issues then when i was on archlinux. i just switched to
>>> debian and used the same config files, but must have slipped up on
>>> something.
>>
>> I have this:-
>>
>> (setq gnus-directory "~/.emacs.d/"
>> mail-default-directory "~/.emacs.d/"
>> message-directory "~/.emacs.d/Mail/"
>> )
>>
>> and I think its all in .emacs.d now ;) drafts and the queue (they are
>> kind of the same..) are in .emacs.d/drafts.
>>
> hmmm ... none of this worked for me.
>
I found the root of the problem on my system.
Old directories were persisted in my gnus.eld file, and on every run of
gnus this file is read, and re-sets variables to point to directories in
my ~/mail folder (which are then dutifully created by gnus). Searching
and replacing in this file fixed the problem on my system.
Hope this helps -- Eric
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
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