Re: mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

michael lamoureux <lamour@engin.umich.edu> writes:

> I hate directories with capital letters in them.  Why do I have to
> change so many variables to get everything in lower-case "news" and
> "mail" directories?  Shouldn't the defaults be set up a little more
> hierarchically?

The defaults are "~/News/" and "~/Mail/" and have been that since the
beginning of time.  If you don't like that, then change that.

> It's not totally clear to me where score files for mail should go
> (assuming that I have news stuff in "news" and mail stuff in "mail").

Anything to do with Gnus goes into "~/News/".  Anything to do with
mail backends goes into "~/Mail/".  Score files have nothing to do
with mail backends.

> The one thing that's bugging me a little about reading mail in gnus is
> that, well, it's too much like a newsreader.  ;-)   Is there any easy
> way to make mail groups with no unread messages still be visible

`gnus-permanently-visible-groups'

> and make read messages still be visible within the groups

`C-u RET'

> um, what happened to the help group.  It used to be in some file
> called doc.txt or something like that, but that file isn't in the
> latest distributions 

"etc/gnus-tut.txt"

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