Re: deleting email, expiring, mail-source-delete-incoming

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Sun, Jun 12 2011, lee wrote:

> Well, I now have:
>
> ,----
> | (setq
> |  gnus-select-method '(nnml "")
> |  mail-sources '((maildir :path "~/Maildir/")))
> `----
>
> The mail-source-delete-incoming-mail variable isn´t changed anymore in
> ~/.gnus.el. My MTA delivers all mail (with one exception for nndiary
> mails) to ~/Maildir, in maildir format. From there, gnus fetches it.

Maybe it would make more sense to use the nnmaildir back end?  I.e. no
entry in `mail-source´ and an nnmaildir method in `gnus-select-method´
(or `gnus-secondary-select-methods').  See (info "(gnus)Maildir").

> So that would mean all the mail gnus has fetched from ~/Maildir stays
> in ~/Maildir for another 10 days before it´s being deleted?

The files corresponding to `mail-source-delete-incoming´ are stored in
`mail-source-directory´ and are called "Incoming*"

> And the temp files? Is all the mail actually quadrupled until the files
> in incoming (~/Maildir) and the temporary files are expired?

Not sure what you are counting.  The usual chain is:

$MAIL (/var/mail/USER) -> Incoming* -> ~/Mail/some.group/123

Incoming* is the only place where a redundant copy of a message lives.

Bye, Reiner.
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