From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50439 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Rutt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Question about nnml Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:10:06 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046398312 1927 80.91.224.249 (28 Feb 2003 02:11:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 02:11:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18oZzR-0000SB-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 03:11:09 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18oZz7-0000tA-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:10:49 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:11:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA17639 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:11:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 21792 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2003 02:10:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21787 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2003 02:10:33 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.cis.ohio-state.edu (HELO cis.ohio-state.edu) (164.107.115.5) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 28 Feb 2003 02:10:33 -0000 Original-Received: from gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu (daemon@gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu [164.107.112.13]) by cis.ohio-state.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1S2A6M15582; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:10:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from rutt@localhost) by gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h1S2A6h03159; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:10:06 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu: rutt set sender to rutt@cis.ohio-state.edu using -f Original-To: Julien Avarre X-Face: (&zE&hBC"G~kYNV6dt5#[X'%{!h5@/oUyc`CRNn#d6e2qi%~4N.?_ys_bQ3&7.*, ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50439 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50439 Julien Avarre writes: > I was just wandering what was the numerous files named IncomingXXXXX in my > ~/Mail directory ? > > Can someone explain what are they and if can I delete them ? They are backups of incoming mail, as you are running a bleeding-edge version of gnus. It is safe to delete them eventually, if you are reasonably certain you are not losing mail with your bleeding-edge version of gnus. You can turn off the creation of backups by (setq mail-source-delete-incoming t) > Is it possible to compress my old emails and still browse them with > Gnus ? Yes, this is covered in the gnus FAQ: Q4.12 Compressed mail files Piotr Pogorzelski writes: Is it possible to have nnml files compressed on disk and decompress them on-the-fly for reading ? Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen replies: Yes. Just gzip the files. You'll need to say `(require 'jka-compr)' in your .emacs, though. Note: this only works in Red Gnus (Gnus 5.4) and later. -- Benjamin