Re: many IncomingXXXXX files left in ~/Mail

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

  > On Fri, Jan 04 2008, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > 
  > > After emacs CVS HEAD switched to used gnus 5.13 I started seeing a lot
  > > of IncomingXXXXX files in ~/Mail. I get my mail from /var/spool/mail. I
  > > use nnml. 
  > > I don't know if those are for all the messages I receive, or just a part
  > > of them. 
  > > But something seems to not be able to clean up.
  > 
  > Set `mail-source-delete-incoming' to a number (or even to t, if you
  > are brave enough):
  > 
  > ,----[ <f1> v mail-source-delete-incoming RET ]
  > | mail-source-delete-incoming is a variable defined in `mail-source.el'.
  > | Its value is 4
  > | 
  > | Documentation:
  > | *If non-nil, delete incoming files after handling.
  > | If t, delete immediately, if nil, never delete.  If a positive number, delete
  > | files older than number of days.
  > | 
  > | You can customize this variable.
  > `----
  > 
  > See also (info "(gnus)Mail Source Customization").
  > 
  > Not deleting the incoming files is intended for the development
  > version.  
  > 
  > Although I wouldn't mind to change it to some number, say 7
  > or 14 days.  This question came up quite often recently.  Opinions?

Please do. I don't think most people want to think about setting yet
another variable, and remember to remove it later.


  > ,----[ (info "(gnus)Gnus Development") ]
  > |    Some variable defaults differ between alpha Gnusae and released
  > | Gnusae.  In particular, `mail-source-delete-incoming' defaults to `nil'
  > | in alpha Gnusae and `t' in released Gnusae.  This is to prevent lossage
  > | of mail if an alpha release hiccups while handling the mail.
  > `----

It might be a good idea to post such info to emacs-devel when new
versions are merged in CVS HEAD, one can't read all the patches to the
docs to find out about things like this.