Re: How to change default news directroy?

[David Hanak <dhanakDONT@isisSEND.vanderbiltME.eduSPAM>]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, xueruini wrote:

>    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:/

Set the HOME environment variable in Control Panel/System/Advanced tab to a
convenient location.  Both Emacs and Gnus will respect that.

BTW, where did you get Emacs 21.3 for WinXP?  Recently I was forced to move
to Windows from Linux, and I really miss some neat new features of Emacs 21.

>    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 don't know, it sounds as if the problem didn't concern the version of
smtpmail.el.  As I've implied, I'm using Emacs 20.7 + Gnus, and SMTP works
fine for me.

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