Re: Why are incoming mails saved twice?

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

Hermann <meinelisten@onlinehome.de> writes:

> Hi,
> I use nnml as mail backend, and I figured out that arriving mails are
> stored twice:
> In ~/Mail/mail/misc with numbers and in
> ~/Mail as Incoming*.
> When I clean up my inbox, those Incoming* mails still exist.
> Is there a way to get rid of them without destroying the structure of
> mail handling? Simply deleting all this mails is perhaps no good idea?
> Hermann

I think you're referring to the incoming spool files.  Those can
automatically deleted by Gnus by setting the following.  Mine deletes
them after 1 day, you can set it to any value.

(setq mail-source-delete-incoming 1)
(setq mail-source-delete-old-incoming-confirm nil)

 sivaram
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