Re: changing Gnus paths: 'News' and 'Mail'

[Paul Mead <paul.d.mead@googlemail.com>]

Eraldo Helal <eraldo@eraldo.org> writes:

> Greetings Orgmoders
>
> Problem description:
> ============================================
> I want to get rid of the 'News' and 'Mail' directories in my home and
> put them somewhere else instead:
> '~/News' => '~/mypath/News'
> '~/Mail' => '~/mypath/Mail'
>
> Question: Which variables do I have to change so that gnus won't have
> troubles with moving those directories?
>
> E.g.: If I change 'gnus-home-directory' from '~/' to '~/mypath/', will
> gnus-directory change to '~/mypath/News' or will it still be '~/News'?
> Making it necessary for me to change it as well. (and maybe others too?)
> ============================================
>
> Greetings from Austria,
> Eraldo

Hi Eraldo

I use gnus-home-directory set to ~/Dropbox and the News and Mail
directories were created relative to that path. I've just checked my
.emacs and .gnus files and there is nothing else there relating to the
home directory so it looks like that's all that's needed.

In fact if you check the info on that variable it says 'All other Gnus
file and directory variables are initialized from this variable.'



Paul