From: Matt Pharr <mmp@Graphics.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: lots of Incoming* files in Mail directory
Date: 19 Apr 1999 22:35:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kh0vherluq5.fsf@lux.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stephen Zander's message of "19 Apr 1999 21:27:59 -0700"
Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com> writes:
> >>>>> "Laura" == lconrad <lconrad@world.std.com> writes:
> Laura> I just noticed that I have a lot of files with names like
> Laura> Incomingh12627 in my ~/Mail directory.
>
> Development versions of Gnus retain mail files after processing in
> case Lars has done something awful & you've started losing mail.
>
> Use
>
> (setq nnmail-delete-incoming t)
>
> if you don't want pgnus to do this.
Which would be quite foolish. Perhaps this behavior might be there for a
reason? Development gnusae have in fact had bugs which would have led to
lost mail in the past, if not for Incoming* files. Let them accumulate and
delete them once a week, assuming no hue and cry has come across the ding
list about mail spooling troubles in the meantime.
-matt
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Matt Pharr mmp@graphics.stanford.edu
<URL:http://graphics.stanford.edu/~mmp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-20 5:35 UTC|newest]
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1999-04-20 4:27 ` Stephen Zander
1999-04-20 5:35 ` Matt Pharr [this message]
1999-04-20 9:29 ` Peter von der Ahé
1999-04-20 14:57 ` Justin Sheehy
1999-04-23 1:53 ` Stephen Zander
1999-04-24 1:11 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-04-20 15:40 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1999-04-30 11:58 ` David Mentré
1999-04-30 12:07 ` Lee Willis
1999-04-19 17:42 lconrad
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