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

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 11 2011,Philipp Haselwarter wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
>>>
>>> Expiry and mail-source-delete-incoming are completely unrelated.
>>>
>>
>> So IIUC gnus will with the default setting delete mail from my Inbox
>> after 10 days? Without confirmation?!
>
> I don't think that's what's being said.  The incoming message file is
> deleted after 10 days, the split mail in your INBOX stays.  The
> downloaded temp files of all the messages are the ones being referred
> to. 

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.

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

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