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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
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