On 9 Feb 2004, Mark Plaksin uttered the following:

> > Given the fact I don't use it and have deleted it from my system
> > several times, how can this directory appear again ?
> 
> I set the following before starting Gnus so it doesn't create or write
> to ~/Mail:
> 
> ;; Main Gnus directory
> (setq gnus-directory "~/src/mail")
> ;; Directory Gnus buffers will be in
> (setq gnus-default-directory "~/src/mail")
> ;; Where to put the dribble file
> (setq gnus-dribble-directory "~/src/mail")
> ;; Set directory for message
> (setq message-directory "~/src/mail")

I personally set it as:

,----
| ;;;_ + Change default Gnus places. Avoid to see it in a 'ls' command
| (setq nnml-directory (concat xm-gnusdir xm-maildir)
|       gnus-cache-directory (concat xm-gnusdir "var/cache/")
|       gnus-directory xm-gnusdir
|       gnus-group-faq-directory nil
|       gnus-x-face-directory (concat xm-gnusdir "etc/faces/")
|       gnus-home-directory xm-gnusdir
|       gnus-kill-files-directory (concat xm-gnusdir "etc/scores/")
|       message-directory (concat xm-gnusdir xm-maildir)
|       gnus-agent-directory (concat xm-gnusdir "var/agent/")
|       gnus-audio-directory (concat xm-gnusdir "etc/audio/")
|       gnus-startup-file (concat xm-gnusdir "etc/newsrc")
|       nndraft-directory (concat xm-gnusdir xm-maildir "drafts/")
|       nnml-active-file (concat xm-gnusdir "etc/active"))
| 
| 
| (setq mail-source-directory (concat xm-gnusdir xm-maildir))
| (setq mail-source-delete-incoming t)
| (setq nnmail-tmp-directory (concat xm-gnusdir xm-maildir "tmp/"))
| 
| (setq gnus-article-save-directory (concat xm-gnusdir "save/"))
`----

I think the only related missing thing I should have configure is the
`message-directory` variable.

I will change and see what happen.

Thank you for your enlightenment.

zeDek
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