* Infinitely growing Mail/Incoming???
@ 2000-02-18 16:52 dave-mlist
2000-02-18 21:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-02-19 11:04 ` Henry S. Thompson
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From: dave-mlist @ 2000-02-18 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
I have this snippet in my .gnus file:
; Put the "Incoming*" files here
(setq mail-source-directory "~/Mail/Incoming/")
(setq mail-sources '((maildir :path "/home/dave/Mail/test/Maildir/new")
(maildir :path "/home/dave/Mail/misc/Maildir/new")
(maildir :path "/home/dave/Mail/mlist/Maildir/new")
(maildir :path "/home/dave/Mail/personal/Maildir/new")
(maildir :path "/home/dave/Mail/default/Maildir/new")
))
I also have this line:
(setq mail-source-delete-incoming nil)
Unfortunately I see my ~/Mail/Incoming directory growing without
bound. I tried to clean it once, but it caused Gnus to have a fit and
toss its cookies.
I have just changed that line to
(setq mail-source-delete-incoming t)
in my .gnus file, but what will happen to the old files? Can I clean
them safely? What is the right way to do that?
Thanks,
Dave
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* Re: Infinitely growing Mail/Incoming???
2000-02-18 16:52 Infinitely growing Mail/Incoming??? dave-mlist
@ 2000-02-18 21:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-02-19 11:04 ` Henry S. Thompson
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2000-02-18 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
dave-mlist@bfnet.com writes:
> in my .gnus file, but what will happen to the old files? Can I clean
> them safely? What is the right way to do that?
You can use any mechanism you want. I use C-x d ~/Mail/Inc* RET, then
type `s' to sort by date, then go to the newest file I want to delete,
hit C-u C-u C-u d, then x.
kai
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* Re: Infinitely growing Mail/Incoming???
2000-02-18 16:52 Infinitely growing Mail/Incoming??? dave-mlist
2000-02-18 21:44 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2000-02-19 11:04 ` Henry S. Thompson
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From: Henry S. Thompson @ 2000-02-19 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Being paranoid, I like to keep things around a while to protect
against accidents. Accordingly, I run the following as a 'cron' job
every night:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
# clean my mail reading temporaries
cd /home/ht/Mail
echo -n 'Before: '
du -s .
find . -name 'Incoming*' -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \;
echo -n 'After: '
du -s .
--
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W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team
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