From: Paul Stevenson <spaul@mail.phy.ornl.gov>
Subject: Re: Incoming* turds?
Date: 12 Oct 1999 16:23:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r9j0pbue.rhythmically@bethe.phy.ornl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Paul D. Smith"'s message of "Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:03:47 -0400 (EDT)"
"Paul D. Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com> writes:
> My disk got full this morning and while cleaning up I discovered my
> ~/Mail directory had 2,300+ Incoming* files, dating from earlier this
> summer when I first installed pgnus.
That's because pgnus is alpha software and hence could potentially do
nasty things to your mail. This saving raw copies of your mail is a
safeguard against bad things happening.
> Thoughts on where to look?
I tried M-x apropos RET incoming RET
It gave, as its first entry the promising-sounding
`mail-source-delete-incoming'
but if I were you, I'd leave it as it is and periodically delete these
files when they become too hoggy of disk. I've never suffered mail loss
with a pgnus, but you never know...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-10-12 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-12 20:03 Paul D. Smith
1999-10-12 20:23 ` Paul Stevenson [this message]
1999-10-12 21:23 ` Paul D. Smith
1999-10-13 0:02 ` Stainless Steel Rat
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