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Re: mail files Incomingxxx
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Giorgos Keramidas |
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Re: mail files Incomingxxx |
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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:00:21 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) |
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:13:11 -0500, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
> 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.
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> I believe these are mails that arrived that for some reason didn't get
> put into my mail folders.
No, these are the temporary files Gnus creates when you pull email. In
development versions of Gnus the value of `mail-source-delete-incoming'
is nil, so they are left around and garbage collected later. See the
manual sections ``Gnus Development'' and ``Mail Source Customization''
for a few more details.
> How can I ask emacs/gnus to process these files.
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> They are few enough (couple dozen) that if they all came into some
> catchall group, I would have not problem putting them in the
> appropriate groups myself.
You don't need to process them. If you are certain that no email has
been lost and everything has been spooled into a Gnus folder, you can
just delete these files.
Even if you don't delete them, Gnus will delete them after a few days
(the number of days that the "Incoming*" files are kept around is the
value of `mail-source-delete-incoming').