~/Mail

~/Mail

[Paul Jarc]

I've set nndraft-directory and message-directory, but some part of
Gnus is still creating ~/Mail and ~/Mail/drafts.  (Drafts are
correctly being stored in nndraft-directory, though.)  What else do I
need to set to get rid of ~/Mail?  I'm running Oort from 2001-07-11.


paul

Re: ~/Mail

[ShengHuo ZHU]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> I've set nndraft-directory and message-directory, but some part of
> Gnus is still creating ~/Mail and ~/Mail/drafts.  (Drafts are
> correctly being stored in nndraft-directory, though.)  What else do I
> need to set to get rid of ~/Mail?  I'm running Oort from 2001-07-11.

Where did you set message-directory? In ~/.gnus? If you compose a
message without start gnus, .gnus won't be evaluated then the
message-directory is ~/Mail.

ShengHuo

How to tell Gnus where to stick it (was: ~/Mail)

[Matt Christian]

Hi all,

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> I've set nndraft-directory and message-directory, but some part of
> Gnus is still creating ~/Mail and ~/Mail/drafts.  (Drafts are
> correctly being stored in nndraft-directory, though.)  What else do I
> need to set to get rid of ~/Mail?  I'm running Oort from 2001-07-11.

Here is what I had to do (in my ~/.emacs):

(setq gnus-kill-files-directory "~/Gnus/score/"
      message-auto-save-directory "~/Gnus/drafts/"
      nnmail-message-id-cache-file "~/Gnus/.nnmail-cache"
      gnus-home-directory "~/Gnus/"
      mail-source-directory "~/Gnus/"
      gnus-directory "~/Gnus/"
      message-directory "~/Gnus/"
      mailcap-download-directory "~/Gnus/")

The above seems to do the trick for me running Gnus 2.8.8 so now all my
Gnus-specific files live in ~/Gnus .  Of course, if you want to use a
different path, you should replace ~/Gnus/ with the path you want to use.

Hope this helps.

- Matt

P.S.  I hope that its understood that I only meant the subject line
to be funny/punny, and not in a bad way. :)

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Re: ~/Mail

[Paul Jarc]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> I've set nndraft-directory and message-directory, but some part of
>> Gnus is still creating ~/Mail and ~/Mail/drafts.
> 
> Where did you set message-directory? In ~/.gnus?

No, in .emacs.  But I also had (require 'message) in .emacs, and I
didn't set message-directory until afterwards.  I changed it to set
message-directory before loading message, and now all is well.


paul