Re: How to make gnus store received mail in the directory /mnt/windows?

[Rodolfo Medina <romeomedina@libero.it>]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> I want gnus to store my received mail in a certain directory,
> let's call it `/path/to/mydir'. To do so, I just put in my .gnus.el
> the following:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method  '(nnml "received-mail"
> 				 (nnml-directory "/path/to/mydir")
> ))
>
> , and it works fine.
> Now, the problem is that the desired directory is /mnt/windows,
> and gnus refuses to store mail there, maybe because of a matter of
> permissions. But the command `$ ls -l /mnt' shows that the
> dir /mnt/windows is writable by all users.
> How can I work the problem out?


Henrik Enberg wrote:

> What OS are you trying this from, and what OS is /mnt/windows?  For
> example, The Linux kernel can't write to NTFS file systems.


Dave Goldberg wrote:

> [...] Yes, unless
> one is very brave and enables NTFS writing by hand (I'm not aware of
> any Linux distro that will provide you with it) an NTFS file system
> locally mounted will be read-only.


Thanks indeed for your kind replies.
Yes, it is a linux-windows dual boot system.
The MS Windows partition is under the /mnt/windows directory.
It is a shame the matter looks to be a difficult one.
But there's something I don't understand:

1) I regularly write files and directories from linux into /mnt/windows,
   without problems. Why does the problem with the NTFS file system
   only arise when I want gnus to do what I usually do?

2) If I start emacs as root, and then open gnus from within
   emacs, then I manage to do what I want. Why does the problem 
   with the NTFS file system not arise then?
   
Finally, do you think a solution is possible, and give some hint
about how to achieve it?

Thanks indeed,
Rodolfo