Re: New issue: emails get stuck in Mail/Incoming* files

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Francis,

> All my emails (fetched by fetchmail into /var/spool directory) are
> moved by Gnus to Mail/Incoming* files,

I can explain that:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Gnus Development") ]
|    Some variable defaults differ between alpha Gnusae and released
| Gnusae, in particular, `mail-source-delete-incoming'.  This is to
| prevent lossage of mail if an alpha release hiccups while handling the
| mail.
`----

,----[ C-h v mail-source-delete-incoming RET ]
| mail-source-delete-incoming is a variable defined in `mail-source.el'.
| Its value is 10
| 
| Documentation:
| If non-nil, delete incoming files after handling.
| If t, delete immediately, if nil, never delete.  If a positive number, delete
| files older than number of days.
| 
| Removing of old files happens in `mail-source-callback', i.e. no
| old incoming files will be deleted unless you receive new mail.
| You may also set this variable to nil and call
| `mail-source-delete-old-incoming' interactively.
`----

,----[ C-h v mail-source-incoming-file-prefix RET ]
| mail-source-incoming-file-prefix is a variable defined in `mail-source.el'.
| Its value is "Incoming"
| 
| Documentation:
| Prefix for file name for storing incoming mail
`----

> but now they don't appear anymore in my Inbox group.

Well, here I don't know why...

Bye,
Tassilo