From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66051 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: many IncomingXXXXX files left in ~/Mail Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:49:56 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200801041820.m04IKmhE012359@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200801041938.m04Jcexj015326@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199490811 7657 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2008 23:53:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 23:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14544@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jan 05 00:53:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JAwMI-0004i4-Gg for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:53:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JAwJT-000117-Rr; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:50:55 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JAwJS-00010k-5Z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:50:54 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JAwJQ-0007IJ-H0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:50:54 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JAwJQ-0004Fl-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:50:52 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m04Nonj3012865; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 00:50:50 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1871C50A; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 00:50:49 +0100 (CET) X-Face: .*T0'iU(sujq_j9\J>-d4fg;N/1++U#U$_5ii6k.=|"-n'?5O:Hyz&wi'-!I~,}7~GgT=0S /&-R5sbkNy5+Xo1y{Tw2KKxi@Xh"g@]Qc|.U<*]WDd)qvGowFDvfU1F]{EDho:7P0@|oOD=Bc{K4?> WP68K[Mx:}=`ZT'6g4'f+g?;`vri2!)xGy}3:=l'(/Cea0l4lo^H5#@/Z3ev Mail-Followup-To: Dan Nicolaescu , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <200801041938.m04Jcexj015326@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:38:26 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-Rhyolite-Metrics: poseidon 104; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66051 Archived-At: On Fri, Jan 04 2008, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > Reiner Steib writes: > > Although I wouldn't mind to change it to some number, say 7 > > or 14 days. This question came up quite often recently. Opinions? > > Please do. I don't think most people want to think about setting yet > another variable, and remember to remove it later. I'll wait a couple of days to hear more/other opinions. BTW, allowing an integer is rather new (2003-02-24), so it might make sense to set it to a small integer value (1..3) also for stable versions. What do people think? > > ,----[ (info "(gnus)Gnus Development") ] > > | Some variable defaults differ between alpha Gnusae and released > > | Gnusae. In particular, `mail-source-delete-incoming' defaults to `nil' > > | in alpha Gnusae and `t' in released Gnusae. This is to prevent lossage > > | of mail if an alpha release hiccups while handling the mail. > > `---- > > It might be a good idea to post such info to emacs-devel when new > versions are merged in CVS HEAD, one can't read all the patches to the > docs to find out about things like this. Well, this information is not really new. According to gnus.texi, this was the practice at least since 1999. What is new for Emacs CVS users is the fact, that a development version of Gnus is in Emacs CVS. If we change it to an integer, I don't think such an info message to emacs-devel is required. But feel free post it if you disagree. :-) In general, changes in No Gnus (5.12.x/5.13) compared to Oort Gnus (5.10.x/5.11) should be documented in (info "(gnus)No Gnus") aka etc/GNUS-NEWS. Please report if anything important is missing there. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/