From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66050 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: many IncomingXXXXX files left in ~/Mail Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:38:26 -0800 Message-ID: <200801041938.m04Jcexj015326@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> References: <200801041820.m04IKmhE012359@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199475659 25288 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2008 19:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 19:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14543@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 04 20:41:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JAsPn-0006Mn-B8 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:41:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JAsP1-0008NO-CN; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:40:23 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JAsOy-0008N2-94 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:40:20 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JAsOv-0005VL-7D for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:40:20 -0600 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JAsOv-0000Sp-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:40:17 +0100 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m04Jcexj015326 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:38:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:31:11 +0100") Original-Lines: 48 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-0.41, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44, FS_OBFU_X 1.03) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66050 Archived-At: Reiner Steib 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): > > ,----[ 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.