From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3294 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hanak Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to change default news directroy? Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:22:23 -0600 Organization: Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University Message-ID: References: <631f9110.0312180306.6a51672c@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669462 18448 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:04:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.59.89.167 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1071764543 29638 129.59.89.167 (18 Dec 2003 16:22:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:22:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/20.7 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F1nz13rFTVm7AhL4QRa5kaFrim8= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3435 Original-Lines: 24 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3435 Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3294 Archived-At: 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. -- David Hanak - Research Engineer Institute for Software Integrated Systems | http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu Vanderbilt University | Work phone: (615) 322-8472 Box 1829, Station B, Nasville, TN 37235 | PGP key ID: 266BC45F