Re: mail group ('G f') not expiring/shrinking

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Clemens Fischer <ino@despammed.com> writes:

> well, i rerad this and many other entries several times, and i reread
> it here in your citation, and if i hadn't experimented, it would still
> not be clear to me (although you even suggested using :directory in
> private email, but with no apparent reason).  why not tell people:
> "using :directory will prohibit gnus from further splitting the
> mail-source, but it will do so when using :file."  i want that to be
> clearly stated, because at that time i had many old mbox-type folders
> in the incoming directory, some of which where prefiltered by
> procmail.  also, those files did not have any distinguishing marks
> like some suffix.  this made me think i should rather use the :file
> attribute to be more picky.

Now there is another paragraph after the one you cited:

/----
| There is also the variable `nnmail-resplit-incoming', if you set
| that to a non-nil value, then the normal splitting process is
| applied to all the files from the directory, *Note Splitting
| Mail::.
\----

Does that make it clearer?

kai
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