Re: Incoming* turds?

["Paul D. Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

%% Paul Stevenson <spaul@mail.phy.ornl.gov> writes:

  ps> "Paul D. Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com> writes:

  >> My disk got full this morning and while cleaning up I discovered my
  >> ~/Mail directory had 2,300+ Incoming* files, dating from earlier this
  >> summer when I first installed pgnus.

  ps> That's because pgnus is alpha software and hence could potentially do
  ps> nasty things to your mail. This saving raw copies of your mail is a
  ps> safeguard against bad things happening.

OK... I don't have any good ideas about how, but it would have been nice
to know it was going to do that so I could have deleted them sooner.

I only use Gnus to read mailing lists and, well, if I miss a mail here
and there on those it's no big deal :).

  >> Thoughts on where to look?  

  ps> I tried M-x apropos RET incoming RET
  ps> It gave, as its first entry the promising-sounding
  ps> `mail-source-delete-incoming' 

I saw that, but the help isn't very descriptive.  I thought it
controlled whether or not the mail was left in the spool file after
copying or not.

Anyway, thanks!

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