From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25874 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Paul D. Smith" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Incoming* turds? Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:23:25 -0400 (EDT) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <14339.42701.492648.292580@baynetworks.com> References: <14339.37923.379781.86955@baynetworks.com> Reply-To: pausmith@nortelnetworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163184 16397 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:19:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:19:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ding Mailing List Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01069 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:27:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB17083; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:26:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:26:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11885 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:26:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from baynet.baynetworks.com (ns1.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.3.20]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01038 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:24:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (h8754.s84f5.BayNetworks.COM [132.245.135.84]) by baynet.baynetworks.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA01195; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM (pobox.engeast.baynetworks.com [192.32.61.6]) by mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05480; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:19:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lemming.engeast (lemming [192.32.138.39]) by pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM (SMI-8.6/BNET-97/04/24-S) with SMTP id RAA11199; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:23:25 -0400 for Original-Received: by lemming.engeast (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA08467; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:23:25 -0400 Original-To: Paul Stevenson In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 6.73 under Emacs 20.4.1 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25874 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25874 %% Paul Stevenson writes: ps> "Paul D. Smith" 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! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith Network Management Development "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.