Changing message-directory

Changing message-directory

[Martin Thornquist]

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I want to keep my mail in a remote (home) directory which I
Samba-mount, but don't want as local home directory (partly because
Samba doesn't do file permissions). So I need to use something other
than ~/Mail and ~/News for message-directory and gnus-directory (or
maybe set gnus-home-directory). I haven't decided yet if I want to
keep .gnus etc. on the local or remote home directory, and hence if I
can set gnus-home-directory or not. To do some preemptive breakage
handling I did a couple of greps in the sources:


Grep for '~/Mail/' in CVS sources:

message.el:113:(defcustom message-directory "~/Mail/"
smime.el:157:(defcustom smime-certificate-directory "~/Mail/certs/"
spam-stat.el:79:;; Learn spam: (spam-stat-process-spam-directory "~/Mail/mail/spam")
spam-stat.el:80:;; Learn non-spam: (spam-stat-process-non-spam-directory "~/Mail/mail/misc")
spam-stat.el:84:;; Test spam: (spam-stat-test-directory "~/Mail/mail/spam")
spam-stat.el:85:;; Test non-spam: (spam-stat-test-directory "~/Mail/mail/misc")
spam-stat.el:90:;; Test spam: (spam-stat-test-directory "~/Mail/mail/spam")
spam-stat.el:91:;; Test non-spam: (spam-stat-test-directory "~/Mail/mail/misc")
spam-stat.el:100:;; Learn spam: (spam-stat-process-spam-directory "~/Mail/mail/spam")
spam-stat.el:101:;; Learn non-spam: (spam-stat-process-non-spam-directory "~/Mail/mail/misc")

Grep for '~/News/':

gnus-art.el:3313:If variable `gnus-use-long-file-name' is non-nil, it is ~/News/News.group/num.
gnus-art.el:3314:Otherwise, it is like ~/News/news/group/num."
gnus-art.el:3332:~/News/news.group/num.	Otherwise, it is like ~/News/news/group/num."
gnus-art.el:3350:~/News/news.group.  Otherwise, it is like ~/News/news/group/news."
gnus-score.el:2576:The score files are those files in the ~/News/ directory which matches
nnimap.el:299:~/News/overview/nnimap.pdc.INBOX.ding.nov, or
nnimap.el:300:~/News/overview/nnimap/pdc/INBOX/ding/nov if
spam.el:78:(defcustom spam-directory "~/News/spam/"


So it seems smime.el and spam.el are prone candidates for breakage,
while the rest just have more or less broken comments. In message.el,
message-directory should probably be set relative to
gnus-home-directory like gnus-directory is in gnus.el. Patches for
message.el and spam.el attached.

I don't know how to patch smime.el. It seems to be a standalone
package (I don't (think I) use it), so it cannot use message-directory
or anything else from Gnus, I guess.


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*** message.el.~6.386.~	Thu Dec 11 05:30:04 2003
--- message.el	Thu Dec 11 14:10:51 2003
***************
*** 110,116 ****
    :group 'message
    :group 'faces)
  
! (defcustom message-directory "~/Mail/"
    "*Directory from which all other mail file variables are derived."
    :group 'message-various
    :type 'directory)
--- 110,117 ----
    :group 'message
    :group 'faces)
  
! (defcustom message-directory (nnheader-concat gnus-home-directory "Mail/")
! ;;  "~/Mail/"
    "*Directory from which all other mail file variables are derived."
    :group 'message-various
    :type 'directory)

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*** spam.el.~6.141.~	Thu Dec 11 05:30:05 2003
--- spam.el	Thu Dec 11 14:18:31 2003
***************
*** 75,81 ****
  (defgroup spam nil
    "Spam configuration.")
  
! (defcustom spam-directory "~/News/spam/"
    "Directory for spam whitelists and blacklists."
    :type 'directory
    :group 'spam)
--- 75,81 ----
  (defgroup spam nil
    "Spam configuration.")
  
! (defcustom spam-directory (nnheader-concat gnus-directory "spam/")
    "Directory for spam whitelists and blacklists."
    :type 'directory
    :group 'spam)

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If there's any other gotchas in using ~/foo/Mail/ etc. I'd be grateful
to have them pointed out.


Martin
-- 
"An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader."
                                                 -Paul Graham, On Lisp

Re: Changing message-directory

[Simon Josefsson]

Martin Thornquist <martint@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> I don't know how to patch smime.el. It seems to be a standalone
> package (I don't (think I) use it), so it cannot use message-directory
> or anything else from Gnus, I guess.

I suspect smime.el shouldn't use ~/Mail/ nor gnus-home-directory.  The
proper solution is to replace smime.el with an interface to gpgsm, to
get rid of the OpenSSL dependency, but pending that, we might change
the path to something else.  Is there a canonical OpenSSL per-user
directory for other users' certificates, with the filenames being the
X.509 hash?  What does other MUAs with S/MIME support via OpenSSL do?