From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: deleting email, expiring, mail-source-delete-incoming
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:28:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82d3ik2o0d.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrgs8gec.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org>
On Sat, Jun 11 2011,Philipp Haselwarter wrote:
> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
[snipped 23 lines]
>>> The default behaviour is modified in that I have set
>>> mail-source-delete-incoming to nil. Does this mean that expired emails
>>> will never be deleted from incoming?
>>
>> Expiry and mail-source-delete-incoming are completely unrelated.
>>
>> Bye, Reiner.
>
> So IIUC gnus will with the default setting delete mail from my Inbox
> after 10 days? Without confirmation?! (looking at
> `mail-source-delete-old-incoming-confirm')
> Sounds scary.
I don't think that's what's being said. The incoming message file is
deleted after 10 days, the split mail in your INBOX stays. The
downloaded temp files of all the messages are the ones being referred
to.
sivaram
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-11 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-10 19:47 lee
2011-06-11 16:25 ` Reiner Steib
2011-06-11 16:46 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-06-11 18:56 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-06-14 20:08 ` Reiner Steib
2011-06-14 20:13 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-06-11 18:58 ` Sivaram Neelakantan [this message]
2011-06-12 18:43 ` lee
2011-06-13 21:01 ` Reiner Steib
2011-06-14 20:13 ` lee
2011-06-14 21:21 ` Reiner Steib
2011-06-15 0:28 ` lee
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