From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80832 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Syncing Gnus Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:40:25 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <94nw7go3m.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325983283 23770 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2012 00:41:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 00:41:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29114@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 08 01:41:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rjgp4-00012V-B7 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:41:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RjgoZ-0000Fp-Ii; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:40:47 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RjgoX-0000Fd-OR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:40:45 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RjgoU-0003m6-9Z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:40:43 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RjgoR-0002Cz-3U for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:40:39 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjgoR-0000jc-0b for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:40:39 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:40:39 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:40:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 48 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7mC78E9sUfbiOncrcmRA/JDpByk= X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80832 Archived-At: OK.. now I have the values set before gnus is loaded. Much better. And most things seem to propery intitiate. However I *still* get a ~/Mail created :- ,---- | [9096]shamrock@development:~$ ls -l Mail | total 4 | drwxr-xr-x 2 shamrock shamrock 4096 Jan 8 01:29 archive `---- My archive method is like this :- ,---- | (setq gnus-message-archive-method | '(nnfolder "archive" | (nnfolder-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/Mail/archive") | (nnfolder-active-file "~/Dropbox/.main/Mail/archive/active") | (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) | (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t))) `---- Is it not possible to lose the directory directives and have it based on the other base settings? Am I missing a base setting (the nomenclature and general Mail/News overlap makes it very hard to guess whats doinf what imo) my setup pre load of gnus is now :- ,---- | (setq | message-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/Mail/" | ;; nndraft-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/News/drafts/" | gnus-home-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/" | ;; gnus-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/News/" | ;; gnus-default-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/" | ;; gnus-article-save-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/News/" | ;; gnus-kill-files-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/News/" | ;; gnus-cache-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/News/cache/" | gnus-startup-file "~/.emacs.d/.newsrc" | gnus-use-dribble-file nil | bbdb-file "~/.emacs.d/.bbdb" | nnfolder-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/Mail/archive" | nnfolder-active-file "~/DropBox/.main/Mail/archive/active" | ) `---- So, how to stop this "unnecessary" Mail dir being created?