~/Mail/incomingNNNNN ?

~/Mail/incomingNNNNN ?

[Jari Aalto]

        Hi,


        somehow I started gettings these files to my Mail directory,
        and I noticed only after I was wondering why I can't see any
        new mail... What are these and which causes them: I seems to
        have some misconfiguration somewhere.
        
        jari


~/Mail % ls     

Incominga12328  Incomingc12328  Incominge12328  Incomingg12328
Incomingb12328  Incomingd12328  Incomingf12328  Incomingh12328

        

Re: ~/Mail/incomingNNNNN ?

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> On 02 Oct 1997, Jari Aalto said:

  Jari>         somehow I started gettings these files to my Mail
  Jari>         directory, and I noticed only after I was wondering
  Jari>         why I can't see any new mail... What are these and
  Jari>         which causes them: I seems to have some
  Jari>         misconfiguration somewhere.

Development versions of Gnus set nnmail-delete-incoming to nil in
order to preserve these files for the emergency case when Gnus munges
mail.  Go ahead and set it to t if you're brave... but don't blame
Lars if you lose mail, you have been warned!

(I set it to nil then delete old incoming files with dired every once
in a while.)

You can also stop using development versions and stick with the stable
ones if you don't have enough disk space and/or don't want to fool
around with your mail.

kai
-- 
The arms should be held in a natural and unaffected way and never
be conspicuous. -- Revised Technique of Latin American Dancing

Re: ~/Mail/incomingNNNNN ?

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> Development versions of Gnus set nnmail-delete-incoming to nil...

Maybe that's the theory, but that's not the practice.  Q0.11 nnmail.el:

(defcustom nnmail-delete-incoming t
  "*If non-nil, the mail backends will delete incoming files after
splitting."
  :group 'nnmail-retrieve
  :type 'boolean)

Re: ~/Mail/incomingNNNNN ?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:

> Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> > Development versions of Gnus set nnmail-delete-incoming to nil...
> 
> Maybe that's the theory, but that's not the practice.  Q0.11 nnmail.el:
> 
> (defcustom nnmail-delete-incoming t
>   "*If non-nil, the mail backends will delete incoming files after
> splitting."
>   :group 'nnmail-retrieve
>   :type 'boolean)

This is probably because Lars wasn't fiddling with nnmail for
Quassia.  Or he simply forgot to change the default.  Lars, which one
is it?

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
I'm sure they'll listen to reason! -- Neal Stevenson, _Snow Crash_

Re: ~/Mail/incomingNNNNN ?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> This is probably because Lars wasn't fiddling with nnmail for
> Quassia.  Or he simply forgot to change the default.  Lars, which one
> is it?

I forgot.  Fix in Quassia 0.12.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: ~/Mail/incomingNNNNN ?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@ntc.nokia.com> writes:

>         somehow I started gettings these files to my Mail directory,
>         and I noticed only after I was wondering why I can't see any
>         new mail... What are these and which causes them: I seems to
>         have some misconfiguration somewhere.

Check the value of `nnmail-delete-incoming'.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
You'll notice that perl is not itself written in Perl.
                                                 -- The Perl FAQ

Re: ~/Mail/incomingNNNNN ?

[Colin Rafferty]

Jari Aalto writes:

>         somehow I started gettings these files to my Mail directory,
>         and I noticed only after I was wondering why I can't see any
>         new mail... What are these and which causes them: I seems to
>         have some misconfiguration somewhere.
        
You are configured correctly for a beta tester.  The Incoming* files are
the temporary copies of your spool.  You can set `nnmail-delete-incoming',
but I wouldn't advise it.

-- 
export-a-crypto-system, see: http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
#!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)

Re: ~/Mail/incomingNNNNN ?

[Jari Aalto]

|  97-10-02 Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> list.ding
| 
| >         somehow I started gettings these files to my Mail directory,
| 
| You are configured correctly for a beta tester.  The Incoming* files are
| the temporary copies of your spool.  You can set `nnmail-delete-incoming',
| but I wouldn't advise it.

Thank you. That explains it all. I have this Qg0.11 in my other account
which has unlimited disk space, so I can leave it on. Having used Gnus
for 2 weeks or so now makes my head spin....

jari