From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79062 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philipp Haselwarter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: deleting email, expiring, mail-source-delete-incoming Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:46:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87wrgs8gec.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> References: <87fwnhbh95.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87wrgsl4il.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307810842 6573 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2011 16:47:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:47:22 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27361@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jun 11 18:47:18 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 1QVRLB-00077L-T1 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:47:18 +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 1QVRL1-0006VH-Cj; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:47:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QVRKz-0006V0-Ve for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:47:05 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QVRKy-000355-QT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:47:05 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QVRKx-0005vd-Eu for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:47:03 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QVRKw-00074m-KL for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:47:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 254.98.113.78.rev.sfr.net ([78.113.98.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:47:02 +0200 Original-Received: from philipp.haselwarter by 254.98.113.78.rev.sfr.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:47:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 254.98.113.78.rev.sfr.net X-NSA-Fodder: SWAT Cohiba Jyllandsposten SDI oil Aldergrove MIT-LL bank X-Meat: Biltong User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uKrazXcNqKQ1k6MuPn+AFY+8q4M= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79062 Archived-At: Reiner Steib 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