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

[Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 10 2011, lee wrote:
>
>> I´m wondering what is considered as "handling".
>
> "handling" here starts with fetching the mail from `mail-sources' and
> ends when the mail is stored in the group of your mail back end (nnml,
> ...) according to your split methods.
>
>> What´s behind this questions is that I´m trying to figure out what gnus
>> does with email I don´t want to keep stored on my harddisk. If I
>> understood the manual correctly, it´s 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´t need to do anything for 3.) to happen, besides
>>       marking emails as expired.
>
> Correct.
>
>> 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?
>
> Expiry and mail-source-delete-incoming are completely unrelated.
>
> Bye, Reiner.

So IIUC gnus will with the default setting delete mail from my Inbox
after 10 days? Without confirmation?! (looking at
`mail-source-delete-old-incoming-confirm')
Sounds scary.

-- 
Philipp Haselwarter