Re: Incomingxxxxx files in Mail directory

Re: Incomingxxxxx files in Mail directory

[Eric S Fraga]

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

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Re: Incomingxxxxx files in Mail directory

[Tassilo Horn]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

Hi Eric,

> 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?

Is paranoia a good reason?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Gnus Development") ]
|    Some variable defaults differ between alpha Gnusae and released
| Gnusae, in particular, `mail-source-delete-incoming'.  This is to
| prevent lossage of mail if an alpha release hiccups while handling the
| mail.  *Note Mail Source Customization::.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo
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Re: Incomingxxxxx files in Mail directory

[Eric S Fraga]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
>> 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?
>
> Is paranoia a good reason?

Now *this* is a loaded question ;-)

> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Gnus Development") ]
> |    Some variable defaults differ between alpha Gnusae and released
> | Gnusae, in particular, `mail-source-delete-incoming'.  This is to
> | prevent lossage of mail if an alpha release hiccups while handling the
> | mail.  *Note Mail Source Customization::.
> `----

Thanks.  Makes sense.

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