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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Incomingxxxxx files in Mail directory
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:43:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739iitr9v.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yegipresddv.fsf@vaso.ll.iac.es> (angelv@iac.es's message of "Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:28:44 +0100")

angelv@iac.es writes:

> Hi,
>
> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:
>> If you set it to the following in gnus.el, those incoming files will
>> be deleted in 1 day(you can change it to any number).  If you want to
>> delete it immediately, change the value to t.
>>
>> ;;if retrieving from spool, delete temp file after 1 days
>> (setq mail-source-delete-incoming 1)
>
> Thanks, I had the default of 10 days, so lots of files were gathering in
> there, but now I have changed it to 2 days and all should be fine.
>
> Thanks a lot,

I had the same; can anybody suggest why a setting of immediate deletion
might not be a good idea?  Is there any reason to keep these files
around at all?

Thanks,
eric

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.18



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     [not found]     ` <yegipresddv.fsf@vaso.ll.iac.es>
2011-07-07  8:43       ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2011-07-07  9:32         ` Tassilo Horn
2011-07-07  9:46           ` Eric S Fraga

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