From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26039 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Bothner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: mystery "Incoming*" files Date: 25 Oct 1999 23:22:07 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163322 17328 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:22:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bothner@bothner.com 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 CAA29358 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 02:23:35 -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 BAB23831; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:23:14 -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 01:22:51 -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 BAA22141 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:22:42 -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 CAA29346 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 02:22:09 -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 23:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 33 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:26039 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26039 I am ending up with a ton of files named things like Incoming00DsZR in my ~/Mail directly. This is making me nervous. It looks like most (maybe all) of this is old mail (i.e.mail I've seen). If so, why is it sitting there? I'd like to delete it all. However, I do seem to have lost some mail, and I find some messages I don't think I've seen. This is making me *very* nervous. Most of my mail is delivered by a direct IP connection, but some is directed via pop. Thus I have two mail sources: (setq mail-sources '((file) (pop :server "postoffice.pacbell.net"))) Sometimes the pop server hangs. Somestimes it will hang, and ask "mail source error - continue? (yes/no)". This is *not* a very helpful question! Sometimes I give up and ctrl-G. In such cases I seem to have lost messages that arrived directly. I.e. xbiff (actually the Gnome equivalent) will show some messages waiting in the spool area; that count will go to zero, but these message will not show up in the mail folders, even after I restart xemacs. I assume I can reduce this problem by using fetchmail to get the pop mail, which should eliminate the hangs. Still, this is quite scary. But maybe I'm getting what I deserve, for using old alpha snapsots of both gnus (pgnus 0.84) and xemacs (21.2 from May)? Should I upgrade to a newer version, or go to a stable released version? If there were a utility that scanned through old Incoming* files, deleted the duplicates, and incorporated anything truly new, that would help. Is there? -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://www.bothner.com/~per/