From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16504 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Kost Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nnfolder-directory is entirely ignored Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 17:59:39 +0400 Message-ID: <87r4d8bq2c.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378130111 30604 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2013 13:55:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 13:55:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: "Jens K. Loewe" Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 02 15:55:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VGUay-0001sx-CY for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:55:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40050 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGUay-0006F5-3n for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43147) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VG8C0-0001Yk-DN for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 10:00:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VG8Br-0000WS-QJ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::22b]:40681) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VG8Br-0000W7-J2 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:59:43 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-la0-f43.google.com with SMTP id ep20so2810924lab.2 for ; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 06:59:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=RTlVGd7WpvQeasGQ5TQ9oYKqOfcX7VPKdnYaYtuwMQ8=; b=j/W/Xd0foNYjUo1KK2U5yWD+C/jHz4y+IvnEloCbdGPOAZXJ6lk+CzMbcvdSTPHuHg qWpVa2rk7TgiHoLUYsBJvALFa7IukMsEwp9mZmyji8nr7oZyISq4rbV0JfNzM3UEQGSd wjfx0zCI3quXhGUq3kPNi6/5idTMYeoObAy/IQs9ATC92INbsItwIvyyAVkwajdVomL/ pI/sy7B4zScAaWi/E958nMz7MVZgaMpU9LjenCFC9zlfDpMXbS1+PBSIXKjKqzHHPrUS 4vRk7oAsq90HsjB7gvUOZnJqlyMVolEzkRLtuq/hYIJJBhNGhxgzhYzLDxl7A/sEYE8Z 1HTg== X-Received: by 10.112.210.136 with SMTP id mu8mr2079059lbc.25.1378043981634; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 06:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from leviafan (128-70-201-90.broadband.corbina.ru. [128.70.201.90]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id m13sm3605517lbo.11.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 01 Sep 2013 06:59:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Jens K. Loewe's message of "Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:50:52 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::22b X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:55:06 -0400 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16504 Archived-At: Hello, Jens K. Loewe (2013-08-30 18:50 +0400): > I use Emacs 24.3 on Win32. Although I set nnfolder-directory to > "~/.emacs.d/Mail/archive/", Emacs creates an empty ~/Mail/archive/ > folder on every startup. Why does it do that? `nnfolder-directory' got its default value from `message-directory'. It's not clear whether you want to separate "archive" directory or you don't want to have the whole "~/Mail" dir. If the latter, try (setq message-directory "~/.emacs.d/Mail") in your .emacs. I also wanted to write that you can check your "~/.newsrc.eld", but i've just found that i have (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") in `gnus-server-alist' there (and i don't use this default value either). So it's not the point i think.