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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> "SW" == Stefan Waldherr <stefan@waldherr.org> writes:
> 
> SW> although setting (setq nnmail-delete-incoming t) in my startup file, my
> SW> Mail dir is still clobbered with Incoming files. Is there any way to no
> SW> create them (I trust pgnus ;-))?
> 
> Don't trust pgnus, especially with mail-source being alpha-grade code.
> 
> By the by, it is mail-source-delete-incoming, now.  That should be a good
> example of why not to completely trust pgnus.

It also would be nice, in my opinion, if there was a way to specify an
alternate directory for the incoming files, other than the mail
directory.  I didn't see anything in the code to handle this.  Perhaps
we need a `mail-source-incoming-directory' variable?


-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
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