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"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...