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nnfolder-directory not honoring message-directory

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From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys)
Subject: nnfolder-directory not honoring message-directory
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:17:07 -0300

The documentation states that:

nnfolder-directory
    All the nnfolder mail boxes will be stored under this directory. The
    default is the value of message-directory (whose default is ~/Mail)

This seems indeed true if we look at nnfolder.el:

(defvoo nnfolder-directory (expand-file-name message-directory)
  "The name of the nnfolder directory.")

But then the first line of nnfolder-open-server reverts the value to the
default "~/Mail/archive", no matter what the value of message-directory
were:

(deffoo nnfolder-open-server (server &optional defs)
  (nnoo-change-server 'nnfolder server defs)

You can better appreciate the problem in the following backtrace:

  nnoo-change-server(nnfolder "archive" ((nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))
  nnfolder-open-server("archive" ((nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))
  gnus-open-server((nnfolder "archive" (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))
  gnus-check-server((nnfolder "archive" (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))
  gnus-ask-server-for-new-groups()
  gnus-find-new-newsgroups()

One workaround is to explicitly define the archive method in order to
override the "~/Mail/archive". But, still, this is a bug because it
clearly contradicts what's documented.

See also:

http://superuser.com/questions/519685/gnus-get-rid-of-mail-and-news-folders

Regards
--
Carlos

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Message #8 received at 18284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
To: 18284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:56:59 -0300

Well, my newsrc happened to have an archive source already defined with
the "~/Mail/archive" directory, so it was overriding my
message-directory setting. Thus I had to delete this variable from
newsrc and everything worked as expected after that. You can close this
ticket but a cautionary word in the documentation would prevent a
nightmarishly debug session.

Reagards
--
Carlos

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