Infinitely growing Mail/Incoming???

Infinitely growing Mail/Incoming???

[dave-mlist]

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

Re: Infinitely growing Mail/Incoming???

[Kai Großjohann]

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???

[Henry S. Thompson]

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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