From: Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: move ~/News ~/Mail dir?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:37:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fyizvmwc.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877j4c6lbf.fsf@rpi.edu>
Bill Atkins <NOatkinwSPAM@rpi.edu> writes:
> Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have been using gnus in my laptop with the default setting of News
>> and Mail dir's for about 6 months. I have decided to move these dir's
>> to another home in a server so that I can access them anywhere.
>>
>> The home in the server can be mounted to my laptop under ~/srcf. I
>> have customized gnus in my laptop with these lines in ~/.emacs:
>>
>> ,----
>> | (setq
>> | gnus-startup-file "~/srcf/.newsrc"
>> | message-directory "~/srcf/Mail"
>> | message-auto-save-directory "~/srcf/Mail/drafts/"
>> | gnus-directory "~/srcf/News"
>> | gnus-cache-directory "~/srcf/News/cache/"
>> | nnfolder-directory "~/srcf/Mail/archive"
>> | )
>> `----
>>
>> However, when I start local gnus it still will create ~/Mail/archive
>> and ~/News and the SCORE file will be saved to ~/News too.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> (setq gnus-directory "~/srcf/gnus")
> (setq message-directory "~/srcf/gnus/Mail")
But with these settings, gnus still will create ~/Mail and ~/News and
use score file in ~/News stead of ~/srcf/News.
>
> is (essentially) what I use. Most of the other variables you're
> setting inherit the values of message-directory or gnus-directory when
> they're initialized.
--
Leon
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2006-05-24 5:31 ` Bill Atkins
2006-05-24 8:37 ` Leon [this message]
2006-05-24 8:51 ` Leon
2006-05-24 10:51 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-24 19:41 ` Leon
2006-05-24 19:48 ` Leon
2006-05-25 18:52 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-26 8:17 ` Leon
[not found] ` <mailman.2311.1148631492.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-05-26 12:36 ` CHENG Gao
2006-05-26 16:45 ` Leon
[not found] ` <mailman.2235.1148460681.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-05-24 11:17 ` CHENG Gao
2006-05-26 21:25 ` Rodolfo Medina
2006-05-24 0:05 Leon
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