From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26042 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Bothner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mystery "Incoming*" files Date: 25 Oct 1999 23:40:14 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163325 17350 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:22:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:22:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA29445 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 02:41:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAB23745; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:40:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:40:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA22407 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:40:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from magnus.bothner.com (root@adsl-216-102-199-253.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.199.253]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA29435 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 02:40:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by bothner.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 23:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Per Bothner In-Reply-To: Norbert Koch's message of "26 Oct 1999 08:30:59 +0200" Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) XEmacs/21.2(beta14) (Dionysos) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26042 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26042 Norbert Koch writes: > you are using pGnus which is a development (alpha, beta) version of > gnus. By default incoming files are left on your disk, since sometimes > gnus eats your mail for lunch. OK - sounds reasonable. I assume that in the "stable releases" by default the incoming files are *not* left on disk? > You can delete them from time to time. Alternatively, although not a > very bright idea, you could > (setq mail-source-delete-incoming t) And perhaps wen/if I *do* get pop hanging or other weird behavior I should check the most recent Incoming* file ... -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://www.bothner.com/~per/