Incoming* files

Incoming* files

[Maciej Matysiak]

hi,

i got worried a little bit about my Mail/ directory:

drwxr-xr-x  18 phoner   users      168960 Oct 28 01:52 Mail/

huge, isn't it? that's the reason:

phoner@ogryzek~/Mail/ ls Incoming* |wc -l
   6920

what are  those files? it seems  it's all my mail  since i started
using pgnus. can i simply  delete them? all the incoming should be
simply split into few groups (and it is in fact).

please plase tell me, it's growing ;)

maciek.m.
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Re: Incoming* files

[Jeremy D. Zawodny]

Maciej Matysiak <phoner@blah.pl> writes:

> phoner@ogryzek~/Mail/ ls Incoming* |wc -l
>    6920
> 
> what are  those files? it seems  it's all my mail  since i started
> using pgnus. can i simply  delete them? all the incoming should be
> simply split into few groups (and it is in fact).

Using nnmail? Try putting this in your .gnus:

(setq nnmail-delete-incoming t)

Jeremy
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Re: Incoming* files

[Maciej Matysiak]

jzawodn@wcnet.org (Jeremy D. Zawodny) writes:

> Using nnmail?

for splitting? yes. i have
   (setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy [...])
in my .gnus

> Try putting this in your .gnus:
> (setq nnmail-delete-incoming t)

thanx. i assume, i can delete those files from Mail/ as well?

m.m.
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Re: Incoming* files

[Justin Sheehy]

Maciej Matysiak <phoner@blah.pl> writes:

> > (setq nnmail-delete-incoming t)
> 
> thanx. i assume, i can delete those files from Mail/ as well?

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

-Justin

Re: Incoming* files

[Chris Tessone]

>>>>> "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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Re: Incoming* files

[Maciej Matysiak]

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

> > thanx. i assume, i can delete those files from Mail/ as well?
>
> Yes.  The  purpose of  that setting, and  its default to  't, is
> that  you are  using an  _alpha_ release  of Gnus.   Keeping the
> Incoming* files gives  one a bit of safety in  case a rogue Gnus
> release eats mail.

i wish i knew that before :)
 42055   ./Mail
and only 10260 in folders, the rest in 6k+ Incoming files ;)

thank you again.

m.m.
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Re: Incoming* files

[Jeremy D. Zawodny]

Maciej Matysiak <phoner@blah.pl> writes:

> > Try putting this in your .gnus:
> > (setq nnmail-delete-incoming t)
> 
> thanx. i assume, i can delete those files from Mail/ as well?

Yes, after you understand the cautions that others have posted in
response here.

Jeremy
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