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>>>>> "Justin" == Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:

    Justin> Yes.  The purpose of that setting, and its default to 't,
    Justin> is that you are using an _alpha_ release of Gnus.  Keeping
    Justin> the Incoming* files gives one a bit of safety in case a
    Justin> rogue Gnus release eats mail.

Exactly. Which is why I don't let Gnus delete incoming mail and do so
by cron job every two days or so instead. :-)

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