strange copies of mail

strange copies of mail

[Gijs Hillenius]

Hello

I just discovered gnus is dumping copies of my mail-messages in my
~/Mail folder. These messages are called Incomin6767Bg4du and similar,
and is a copy of message (for example) ~/Mail/certain_folder/664

The other interesting bit:

-rw------- gijs gijs  ~/Mail/certain_folder/664 
-rw-------  1 gijs mail  Incoming6797ON

so the group is different. This could be something fetchmail started
doing as of yesterday (date of first Incoming###-message)....

It seems I can safely delete the Incoming### messages. But I wonder
what happened.. Does anybody recognize this new gnus- (or fetchmail-)
behaviour?

Thanks

Gijs




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Re: strange copies of mail

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:48:44 +0200, Gijs wrote:

> It seems I can safely delete the Incoming### messages. But I wonder
> what happened.. Does anybody recognize this new gnus- (or fetchmail-)
> behaviour?

Check what the value of the variable mail-source-delete-incoming is:

,----[ C-h v mail-source-delete-incoming RET ]
| `mail-source-delete-incoming' is a variable declared in Lisp.
|   -- loaded from "mail-source"
| 
| Value: t
| 
| 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.
`----


  Best regards,

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Re: strange copies of mail

[David Z Maze]

Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:

> I just discovered gnus is dumping copies of my mail-messages in my
> ~/Mail folder. These messages are called Incomin6767Bg4du and
> similar,

> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

I think these days that behavior is controlled by
`mail-source-delete-incoming', and in CVS/alpha builds of Gnus, that
variable gets defaulted to nil (in beta and release versions ['5.x']
it defaults to t).  If something breaks in the mail-splitting code,
it's intended to give you a safety net so that you can recover mail
from an earlier stage in the process.

> It seems I can safely delete the Incoming### messages. But I wonder
> what happened.. Does anybody recognize this new gnus- (or fetchmail-)
> behaviour?

If they are in fact being produced by Gnus, it's safe to just blow
them away.  Did you recently change versions of Gnus somehow, possibly
from a 5.10 version or one included with your Emacs?

  --dzm

Re: strange copies of mail

[Gijs Hillenius]

>>>>> David Z Maze writes:

     > Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:
    >> I just discovered gnus is dumping copies of my mail-messages in
    >> my ~/Mail folder. These messages are called Incomin6767Bg4du
    >> and similar,

    >> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

     > I think these days that behavior is controlled by
     > `mail-source-delete-incoming', and in CVS/alpha builds of Gnus,
     > that variable gets defaulted to nil (in beta and release
     > versions ['5.x'] it defaults to t).  If something breaks in the

Ah! I have it set to nil here. That must be it, I guess. (I think)
on this Debian box it got upgraded just this weekend.

Thanks guys. I guess I'll set mail-source-delete-incoming to 3, for
the heck of it.

Gijs



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