From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79402 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Incomingxxxxx files in Mail directory Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:46:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87fwmis9sw.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <878vsbc4hr.fsf@azurservers.com> <82fwmiajdv.fsf@gmail.com> <8739iitr9v.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87oc164erq.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310032023 30952 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2011 09:47:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:47:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27698@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 07 11:47:00 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 1QelAg-0005fX-Lz for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:46:59 +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 1QelAe-0007Hu-JH; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:46:56 -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 1QelAd-0007Hl-La for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:46:55 -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 1QelAc-0003qn-F4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: from vscane-c.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.43]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QelAa-0001Zy-PL for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:46:53 +0200 Original-Received: from [85.210.135.34] (helo=localhost) by vscane-c.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qel9s-0007I9-9h for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:46:11 +0100 X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87oc164erq.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:32:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79402 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Eric S Fraga 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. -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.18