Re: move ~/News ~/Mail dir?

[Leon]

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

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
>> On Wed, May 24 2006, Leon wrote:
>>
>>> Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> Bill Atkins <NOatkinwSPAM@rpi.edu> writes:
>>>>> (setq gnus-directory "~/srcf/gnus")
>>>>> (setq message-directory "~/srcf/gnus/Mail")
>>
>> Yes, this settings should be sufficient.  All Gnus & Message variables
>> should be derived from this variables.  If not, it's a bug.
>>
>>>> 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. 
>>
>> `gnus-kill-files-directory' _is_ derived from `gnus-directory':
>>
>> (defcustom gnus-kill-files-directory gnus-directory
>>   ...)
>>
>> Maybe you are (implicitly) loading parts of Gnus before evaluating
>> (setq gnus-directory "~/srcf/gnus") in your ~/.emacs file?
>>
>>> Any idea why ~/Mail/archive is created?
>>
>> This probably is `nnfolder-directory' which should be derived from
>> `message-directory':
>>
>> (defvoo nnfolder-directory (expand-file-name message-directory)
>>   "The name of the nnfolder directory.")
>>
>> Bye, Reiner.
>
> With this setting in ~/.emacs 
>
> (require 'message)
> (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/"
> nnfolder-directory : Its value is "~/Mail/archive"

I'm using gnus that comes with emacs 22/23.

-- 
Leon