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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<87brq6rrk7.fsf@jbms.ath.cx>...

Thank you all!
My gnus can now do its work :)


> xueruini@hotmail.com (xueruini) writes:
> 
> > hello all:
> >    I am new to gnus, so many questions :)
> >    1. I am using emacs21.3+gnus in winxp, so i want gnus to put the files
> >       pertaining to news somewhere else, not the default location c:/
> >    2. i try to send mail by gnus, but it complains smtp protocol error. i
> >       found that it is because emacs's old smtpmail.el. but i download
> >       the newest cvs version emacs, it still complains. i don't know
> >    what to do
> 
> I found that in practice, `gnus-directory' must be set in your emacs
> configuration file, rather than in your gnus configuration file,
> because a great number of variables are initialized based on
> `gnus-directory' when Gnus is loaded.
   so wherer should I put my .gnus, ~ or gnus-directory?