From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79058 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: deleting email, expiring, mail-source-delete-incoming Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:47:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87fwnhbh95.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307735287 11886 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2011 19:48:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:48:07 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27357@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jun 10 21:48:03 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 1QV7gY-0002xt-VY for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:48:03 +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 1QV7gS-0001Vt-8o; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:47:56 -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 1QV7gQ-0001Vh-PA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:47:54 -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 1QV7gP-0006cy-Mk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from static.73.179.46.78.clients.your-server.de ([78.46.179.73]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QV7gN-0000Wl-SA for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:47:51 +0200 Original-Received: from lee by static.73.179.46.78.clients.your-server.de with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QV7gN-0001oL-2j for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:47:51 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79058 Archived-At: Hi, what exactly does mail-source-delete-incoming do? The documentation says: ,---- | If non-`nil', delete incoming files after handling them. `---- I=C2=B4m wondering what is considered as "handling". For example, in my case basically all splitting is done through the exim ~/.forward file, so "handling" would mean that the user is doing all the handling of incoming messages himself (using gnus). When the user moves an incoming message to another group, is that considered "handling", and will the message be treated according to what mail-source-delete-incoming is set to? Or will it be delted immediately because it was moved? What=C2=B4s behind this questions is that I=C2=B4m trying to figure out wha= t gnus does with email I don=C2=B4t want to keep stored on my harddisk. If I understood the manual correctly, it=C2=B4s like this (unless I modify the default behaviour): 1.) Gnus basically does not delete any email. 2.) To have an email deleted, I should mark it as expired. 3.) At some time, emails marked as expired and more than a week old will be deleted. 4.) Apparently I don=C2=B4t need to do anything for 3.) to happen, besides marking emails as expired. 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?