Brady Trainor <algebrat@uw.edu> writes:

> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
>> Brady Trainor <algebrat@uw.edu> writes:
>>
>>> But to deal with `~/Mail/` and `~/News/`,...
>>
>> I have
>>
>> (setq gnus-home-directory    "~/.gnus.d/"
>>       gnus-init-file	     "~/.gnus.d/gnus.el"
>>       message-directory	     (expand-file-name "Mail/" gnus-home-directory))
>>
>> in my emacs.el file and all gnus related files are in this directory.
>
> Ah, this looks like the right thing to do. But so do you not have an
> nntp setup? There is no `News` directory for you, in `~` or `Mail`? 

I have the following in my ~/.gnus.d directory:

,----
| 09:38:42 ~/.gnus.d$ ll
| total 37032
| drwxr-xr-x   10 rainerkrug  staff   340B Sep 23 09:19 .
| drwxr-xr-x+ 168 rainerkrug  staff   5.6K Sep 23 09:36 ..
| -rw-r--r--@   1 rainerkrug  staff   6.0K Sep 11 10:49 .DS_Store
| -rw-r--r--    1 rainerkrug  staff    18M Sep 23 09:19 .gnus.registry.eioio
| -rw-r--r--    1 rainerkrug  staff   2.0K Sep 23 09:19 .newsrc
| -rw-r--r--    1 rainerkrug  staff   207K Sep 23 09:19 .newsrc.eld
| -rw-r--r--    1 rainerkrug  staff   2.0K Sep 11 10:49 .newsrc~
| drwxrwxr-x    7 rainerkrug  staff   238B Jul 22 11:28 Mail
| drwxr-xr-x    5 rainerkrug  staff   170B Apr 11 15:47 News
| -rw-r--r--    1 rainerkrug  staff    12K Sep 11 11:07 gnus.el
`----

Yes, I have one (gmane):

,----
|   (setq gnus-select-method 
|         '(nntp "news.gmane.org"
|                (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream)
|                (nntp-port-number 563)))
`----

Cheers,

Rainer

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