From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38583 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IncomingXXXX files are not deleted. Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 06:43:38 -0400 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 1035174424 23313 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:27:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:27:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 17175 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2001 10:43:40 -0000 Original-Received: from mesquite.slip.cs.cmu.edu (HELO cinnamon.vanillaknot.com) (128.2.207.11) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Sep 2001 10:43:40 -0000 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by cinnamon.vanillaknot.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f84Ahc517117; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 06:43:38 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: ?=p^Gj2JkX~UU_@W}[q/'Dxn19x-zfIQ](y<&ky/?1-&Nz&,!W}R.Gp+"LeGojoR =RF>?!XVs{a:`Yt(gqM<#$Zy(C@]'dR4Hy4S1.I(n3:2"R:=Uy!)K9>U!gNTyH{p +_w#F[gt).$Vyvo5=9LF^PeQ(@H#}QLAbfyYxX/8t:TDR5nA\|RmJO"EwjL8tWyvM In-Reply-To: (Jinhyok Heo's message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2001 14:18:03 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Artificial Intelligence) Original-Lines: 21 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38583 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38583 Jinhyok Heo writes: > Why are they not deleted? Because you're using an alpha version of Gnus. In released versions, after being moved to a 5.x numbering scheme without a name (currently "Oort"), mail-source-delete-incoming is set to t, so that these temporary files are deleted. But as long as a development tree is in progress and not considered "released," it is set to nil. This is to forestall disaster during development in case something to do with mail backend development gets seriously bugged, so you don't actually lose mail. This was actually very important during the Pterodactyl Gnus series around the p0.40 time frame -- Lars' complete rework of backends caused some problems for POP users and recovering from Gnus-induced disasters was really needed for a little while then. (Pterodactyl Gnus is what became 5.8, as released.) If you are sufficiently confident of Gnus' mail source handling, set the variable to t yourself in .gnus. If not, you need to make sure now and then that you delete these files manually, or perhaps instead do so occasionally via cron, using find(1) with, say, "-mtime +5".