[lconrad@world.std.com] Re: lots of Incoming* files in Mail directory

[lconrad@world.std.com] Re: lots of Incoming* files in Mail directory

[lconrad]

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Better (or at least more) information.  The one that just happened was
a case where fetchmail had fetched 3 messages; gnus did sort them into
the right newsgroups, and I did read them there, but for some reason
it also left an Incoming file in the Mail directory.  I diffed the
last message in the "ding" directory with the version in the Incoming*
file; this diff output is below.

I have both fetchmail and qmail putting information into system logs;
they look perfectly normal to me.  

diff -c 2525 ../Incomingh30949
*** 2525	Mon Apr 19 15:59:18 1999
--- ../Incomingh30949	Mon Apr 19 15:59:17 1999
***************
*** 1,4 ****
! X-From-Line: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Mon Apr 19 19:55:34 1999
  Return-Path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
  Delivered-To: lconrad@serpent.laymusic.local
  Received: (qmail 463 invoked from network); 19 Apr 1999 19:55:34 -0000

<two non-ding messages, in the Incoming file, but not the file as
written to ding stripped out>

! From owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Mon Apr 19 19:55:34 1999
  Return-Path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
  Delivered-To: lconrad@serpent.laymusic.local
  Received: (qmail 463 invoked from network); 19 Apr 1999 19:55:34 -0000
***************
*** 27,34 ****
  From: Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com>
  In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "18 Apr 1999 20:31:07 +0200"
  Date: 19 Apr 1999 15:53:21 -0400
- X-Gnus-Mail-Source: file:/home/lconrad/Mailbox
  Message-Id: <ubtgkidzi.fsf@home.com>
  User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) XEmacs/21.2(beta13) (Demeter)
  Mime-Version: 1.0
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
--- 169,176 ----
  From: Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com>
  In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "18 Apr 1999 20:31:07 +0200"
  Date: 19 Apr 1999 15:53:21 -0400
  Message-Id: <ubtgkidzi.fsf@home.com>
+ Lines: 29
  User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) XEmacs/21.2(beta13) (Demeter)
  Mime-Version: 1.0
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
***************
*** 36,43 ****
  Precedence: list
  X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
  X-UIDL: 26998c6ed88633230b51627305d84ffb
- Lines: 32
- Xref: serpent.laymusic. ding:2525
  
  Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> wrote:
  
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>>>>> "me" == lconrad  <lconrad@world.std.com> writes:

    me> I just noticed that I have a lot of files with names like
    me> Incomingh12627 in my ~/Mail directory.  They have dates that
    me> go back to about when I started using pgnus instead of
    me> gnus-5.6.45.  (originally .80, now I'm up to .83; some have
    me> happened this morning under .83).

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Re: [lconrad@world.std.com] Re: lots of Incoming* files in Mail directory

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

lconrad@world.std.com writes:

> Better (or at least more) information.  The one that just happened was
> a case where fetchmail had fetched 3 messages; gnus did sort them into
> the right newsgroups, and I did read them there, but for some reason
> it also left an Incoming file in the Mail directory. 

Yes, alpha versions of Gnus are supposed to save all incoming mail in
the Incoming* files.  For safekeeping, in case something went wrong.
Just delete them as your disks run full.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen