On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:14:13 +0200, Eraldo Helal <eraldo@eraldo.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?

No idea but what I do is simply link these home directory paths to the
real path:

  cd
  ln -s ~/mypath/News .

so that I can use different MUAs without having to worry about a
myriad of configurations variables...

Note that you may get better answers from the gnus newsgroup...