Re: move ~/News ~/Mail dir?

[Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Wed, May 24 2006, Leon wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>>> Maybe you are (implicitly) loading parts of Gnus before evaluating
>>> (setq gnus-directory "~/srcf/gnus") in your ~/.emacs file?
> [...]
>> (require 'message)
>
> So you're loading message before setting the variables.
> Moving this below the setq should make it work as intended.
>
>> (setq
>>  gnus-startup-file "~/srcf/.newsrc"
>>  gnus-kill-files-directory "~/srcf/News"
>>  message-directory "~/srcf/Mail"
>>  gnus-directory "~/srcf/News"
>>  ;; mail-source-directory "~/srcf/Mail"
>>  )
>>
>> message-auto-save-directory : Its value is "~/Mail/drafts/"
This value is corrected after move (require' message) as suggested.
>> nnfolder-directory : Its value is "~/Mail/archive"
>
This value is the same.

> Maybe you need to edit ~/.newsrc.eld as suggested by CHENG Gao.
>

Although ~/Mail/archive is created, it seems it is never used. I mean
it's always empty. I don't want to change ~/.newsrc.eld since I using
gnus on the server too.

> Bye, Reiner.

-- 
Leon