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John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2@nd.edu> writes:

> I would like to keep all of my mail and news files in the directory
> ~/Mail, so I've put the following in my .gnus file:
> 
> (setq gnus-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/News")

You should set these things in .emacs instead, since much of Gnus has
been loaded when .gnus is evaled.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen