Subject: bug#10961: weird messages on sending mail

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:33:46 +0100

Sam Steingold <[email-masked]> writes:

>> `nndraft-directory' and see whether all those odd directories are in
>> there?
>
> nndraft-directory
> "/home/sds/Mail/"
> yes:
> marks/news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.pari.user
> et al
>
> very ugly!
> are these directories really necessary?

Nope.

> each one contains just the .marks file - it seems like all this could
> live in just a single top-level file...

Yup.  And that file is called ~/.newsrc.eld.  :-)

No Gnus defaults to not using the external marks stuff, and Ma Gnus
removes the code completely.

I have no idea how those directories were created, but if you just
remove them, this problem will probably go away.

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