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Maciej Matysiak <phoner@blah.pl> writes:

> > (setq nnmail-delete-incoming t)
> 
> thanx. i assume, i can delete those files from Mail/ as well?

Yes.  The purpose of that setting, and its default to 't, is that you
are using an _alpha_ release of Gnus.  Keeping the Incoming* files
gives one a bit of safety in case a rogue Gnus release eats mail.

-Justin