Re: Deleted messages remain

Re: Deleted messages remain

[Jacob Bunk Nielsen]

Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:

> However, after deleting some junk mails by hitting B-Del, the
> messages remain on the hard disk.
>
>> ls ~/Mail/
> Incoming142JtR	Incoming187-C5	Incoming256GH5	drafts/
> Incoming175UQS	Incoming232ckH	active		mail/
>
> Is this behavior expected? Thanks.

This is because you use Oort Gnus. It is default behavior for Oort
Gnus (which is under heavy development) to have
mail-source-delete-incoming set to nil. You can either set it to some
number (number of days before incoming mails are deleted) or to t (as
is default in officially released Gnusae), which will delete all
incoming mails.

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Re: Deleted messages remain

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Mar 28 2003, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> Incoming142JtR	Incoming187-C5	Incoming256GH5	drafts/
>> Incoming175UQS	Incoming232ckH	active		mail/
>
> The Incoming files are a safety net.  You're running an alpha version
> of Gnus which might eat your mail for breakfast.  When that happens,
> you have a copy right there.

Peter, if your Oort is newer than 2003-03-03, you may want to set
`mail-source-delete-incoming' to a number, see the manual:

,----[ (Info-goto-node "(gnus)Mail Source Customization") ]
| `mail-source-delete-incoming'
|      If non-`nil', delete incoming files after handling them.  If `t',
|      delete the files immediately, if `nil', never delete any files.
|      If a positive number, delete files older than number of days (This
|      will only happen, when reveiving new mail).  You may also set
|      `mail-source-delete-incoming' to `nil' and call
|      `mail-source-delete-old-incoming' from a hook or interactively.
| 
| `mail-source-delete-old-incoming-confirm'
|      If `non-nil', ask for for confirmation before deleting old incoming
|      files.  This variable only applies when
|      `mail-source-delete-incoming' is a positive number.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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