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

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

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.
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