Re: move ~/News ~/Mail dir?

[Leon]

Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Customize gnus-kill-files-directory will sort out the score file
problem. Any idea why ~/Mail/archive is created?

>
>>
>> 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