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Re: Not losing mail
From: |
Giorgos Keramidas |
Subject: |
Re: Not losing mail |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:16:05 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) |
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:20:16 +0100, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> PS: I've _very_ recently switched to Gnus for all my email needs.
>> Once more. There have been a couple of failed attempts in the past,
>> but I wasn't really familiar enough with Gnus and I was afraid of
>> losing massive amounts of email if I misconfigured it.
>
> While it _is_ possible to mis-configure Gnus to lose mail, I think it
> is quite hard to do it accidentally. Those pitfalls (e.g. bogus split
> or expiry setting) are documented with big fat warning, I think.
> Additionally there are safety net mechanisms (see
> e.g. `mail-source-delete-incoming' in (info "(gnus)Mail Source
> Customization").
Yep, thanks ;-)
I found out about `mail-source-delete-incoming', and I also installed a
procmail filter which keeps a copy of messages to `~/Mailbox.save' for
the first few days. When I was done configuring email splitting, the
filter was left in place and I now have just `mail-source-delete-incoming'
set to nil for the next few weeks.