From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mail files Incomingxxx Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:37:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87my2m6z2k.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258400316 16249 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2009 19:38:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:38:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 16 20:38:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NA7PA-0004sj-V5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:38:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54530 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NA7PA-0002he-Hz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:38:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NA7Oc-0002Zc-Ai for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:37:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NA7OX-0002VJ-TD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:37:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53112 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NA7OX-0002Uv-H7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:37:49 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43432) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NA7OW-000297-Vf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:37:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NA7OV-0004bi-IW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:37:47 +0100 Original-Received: from p54af2990.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.175.41.144]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:37:47 +0100 Original-Received: from tassilo by p54af2990.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:37:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af2990.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nTY8oyu3eSBf8nw9iZFOVDTn+lc= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69791 Archived-At: Allan Gottlieb writes: Hi Alan, > I am a very happy user of emacs (v23) and gnus (5.13). > I just notice a bunch of file in my main mail directory > named Incomingxxxxx for various xxxxx. > > I believe these are mails that arrived that for some reason didn't get > put into my mail folders. No, these are only backup files, which are enabled in non-released Gnus versions to be sure that no mail can be lost during mail splitting. Do you use the released Emacs 23.1? Maybe it was forgotten to disable those backups, but on the other hand, why not donate some megabytes for extra safety? ,----[ (info "(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 (the | deletion will only happen when receiving 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-incoming' defaults to `10' in alpha Gnusae and | `2' in released Gnusae. *Note Gnus Development::. `---- Ah, I was wrong. Even released Gnusae keep some Incoming files nowadays. :-) Bye, Tassilo