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On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Paul Jarc wrote:

> - Problem: my .emacs contains (require 'nnmaildir), and after that,
>   (setq nnmaildir-directory "~/var/mail").  nnmaildir.el contains
>   (defvoo nnmaildir-directory "~/Maildir").  Before I start Gnus the
>   first time, nnmaildir-directory has the value "~/var/mail", just
>   like I want.  But when I start Gnus, it looks in "~/Maildir"
>   instead.  Subsequently setting it back to my value doesn't help;
>   it always gets changed back when I start Gnus.  Any ideas?

I think defvoo makes server parameters, like this:

(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nnmaildir "foo"
               (nnmaildir-directory "~/var/mail")))

Does that do it?

kai
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