Re: move ~/News ~/Mail dir?

[Leon]

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.

>
> 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