From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60756 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodolfo Medina Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to make gnus store received mail in the directory /mnt/windows? Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20050815031142.7258C4022@rocksteady.printf.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124096634 3894 80.91.229.2 (15 Aug 2005 09:03:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:03:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9288=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 15 11:03:47 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4aro-0006aL-Tq for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:02:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E4arn-0007Ll-03 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:02:47 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E4arP-0007LW-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:02:23 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E4arK-0004HS-U7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1E4ZvF-0006pD-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:02:17 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E4aqA-0006Nj-LT for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:01:11 +0200 Original-Received: from ppp-90-103.26-151.libero.it ([151.26.103.90]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:01:06 +0200 Original-Received: from romeomedina by ppp-90-103.26-151.libero.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:01:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 52 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 151.26.103.90 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804) X-Spam-Score: -4.7 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60756 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60756 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