From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79065 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: deleting email, expiring, mail-source-delete-incoming Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:28:58 +0530 Message-ID: <82d3ik2o0d.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87fwnhbh95.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87wrgsl4il.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87wrgs8gec.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307818782 14320 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2011 18:59:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:59:42 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27364@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jun 11 20:59:39 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QVTPE-0003r8-1l for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:59:36 +0200 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 1QVTPB-00075x-Lv; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:59:33 -0500 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 1QVTPA-00075m-Lu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:59:32 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QVTOx-0001oS-MS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:59:32 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QVTOw-0000eh-9o for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:59:18 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QVTOv-0003iG-Sd for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:59:17 +0200 Original-Received: from 122.178.222.32 ([122.178.222.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:59:17 +0200 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.178.222.32 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:59:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.178.222.32 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110017 (No Gnus v0.17) Emacs/23.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JPAxSU6WkoJrO7olV26dDZEJry4= X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79065 Archived-At: On Sat, Jun 11 2011,Philipp Haselwarter wrote: > Reiner Steib 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 --