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Re: purpose of "Incoming" files
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Patrick Drechsler |
Subject: |
Re: purpose of "Incoming" files |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:46:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Reiner Steib wrote on 30 Jul 2004 08:02:02 MET:
> On Fri, Jul 30 2004, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>
>>>>>>> Patrick Drechsler <patrick.drechsler@gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> what's the purpose of all those "Incoming*" files in my ~/Mail
>>> folder? I delete them once a month...
>
> Set mail-source-delete-incoming to 30 as described in the manual:
>
> ,----[ (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 (This
> | will only happen, when receiving new mail). [...]
> `----
Thanks for the pointer!
Cheers
Patrick
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