Incoming4414ruc

[Sharon Kimble]

Ever since I've started using GNUs for my email, I've been
accumulating text files in my "/home/boudiccas/Mail" directory. They
have odd names like "Incoming4414ruc" or "Incoming4414rsy", or such
like.

They seem to be generated every time I manually get my email from
"/var/mail/boudiccas", and consist of emails from root, such as this
one -
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
From ***@london Tue Jun 17 15:00:18 2014
Return-path: <***@london>
Envelope-to: ***@localhost
Delivery-date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:00:18 +0100
Received: from boudiccas by london with local (Exim 4.82_1-5b7a7c0-XX)
(envelope-from <***@london>)
id 1Wwtvu-00079W-7W
for ***@localhost; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:00:18 +0100
From: ***@london (Cron Daemon)
To: ***@localhost
Subject: Cron <***@london> /home/boudiccas/bin/radiostreams
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=***@localhost>
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/boudiccas>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=boudiccas>
Message-Id: <E1Wwtvu-00079W-***@london>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:00:18 +0100

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The "***@london" account does not exist, its just my user-name
and the machine-name.

How can I
- A - get rid of them,
- B - Stop them from being accumulated, and/or generated?

Thanks
Sharon.

[Adam Sjøgren]

Post by Sharon Kimble
How can I
- A - get rid of them,

Like any other file on your computer.

Post by Sharon Kimble
- B - Stop them from being accumulated, and/or generated?

See mail-source-delete-incoming:

,----[ C-h v mail-source-delete-incoming RET ]
| mail-source-delete-incoming is a variable defined in `mail-source.el'.
| Its value is 10
|
| Documentation:
| If non-nil, delete incoming files after handling.
| If t, delete immediately, if nil, never delete. If a positive number, delete
| files older than number of days.
|
| Removing of old files happens in `mail-source-callback', i.e. no
| old incoming files will be deleted unless you receive new mail.
| You may also set this variable to nil and call
| `mail-source-delete-old-incoming' interactively.
`----

Basically a safety precaution.

I think the default is t in non-development versions of Gnus.


Best regards,

Adam

[Elias Oltmanns]

(2014-06-17) ***@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) wrote:
[...]

Post by Adam Sjøgren
,----[ C-h v mail-source-delete-incoming RET ]
| mail-source-delete-incoming is a variable defined in `mail-source.el'.
| Its value is 10
|
| If non-nil, delete incoming files after handling.
| If t, delete immediately, if nil, never delete. If a positive number, delete
| files older than number of days.
|
| Removing of old files happens in `mail-source-callback', i.e. no
| old incoming files will be deleted unless you receive new mail.
| You may also set this variable to nil and call
| `mail-source-delete-old-incoming' interactively.
`----

May I ask how to insert citations in that style into a message buffer? I
have been wondering about that before since it pops up on this list
rather frequently. So far I only know about message-mark-inserted-region
which generally suits my purposes very well but I'm still curious to
learn about „that other way“.

Sorry for hijacking this thread and Thanks for any hints,

Elias

[James Cloos]

Post by Adam Sjøgren
,----[ C-h v mail-source-delete-incoming RET ]

EO> May I ask how to insert citations in that style into a message
EO> buffer?

That is from boxquote. Cf: http://www.davep.org/emacs/boxquote.el

On Gentoo, it is app-emacs/boxquote. On Debian, Ubuntu, et alia it is
part of the emacs-goodies-el package.

The functions include boxquote-describe-function, boxquote-describe-key
boxquote-describe-variable, boxquote-shell-command, boxquote-region and
several more.

-JimC

[Sauli Heinola]

Post by Elias Oltmanns
May I ask how to insert citations in that style into a message buffer? I
have been wondering about that before since it pops up on this list
rather frequently.

http://www.davep.org/emacs/boxquote.el

Take a look at boxquote-describe-function and -variable.

[Sharon Kimble]

Post by Elias Oltmanns
[...]

Post by Adam Sjøgren
,----[ C-h v mail-source-delete-incoming RET ]
| mail-source-delete-incoming is a variable defined in `mail-source.el'.
| Its value is 10
|
| If non-nil, delete incoming files after handling.
| If t, delete immediately, if nil, never delete. If a positive number, delete
| files older than number of days.
|
| Removing of old files happens in `mail-source-callback', i.e. no
| old incoming files will be deleted unless you receive new mail.
| You may also set this variable to nil and call
| `mail-source-delete-old-incoming' interactively.
`----

May I ask how to insert citations in that style into a message buffer? I
have been wondering about that before since it pops up on this list
rather frequently. So far I only know about message-mark-inserted-region
which generally suits my purposes very well but I'm still curious to
learn about „that other way“.
Sorry for hijacking this thread and Thanks for any hints,
Elias

Its quite easy Elias, write what you want to be outlined, then
highlight it with the mouse and do "M-x boxquote-region".

╭────
│Just like this! Har, har!
╰────

Sharon.

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Post by Elias Oltmanns
[...]

Post by Adam Sjøgren
,----[ C-h v mail-source-delete-incoming RET ]
| mail-source-delete-incoming is a variable defined in `mail-source.el'.
| Its value is 10
|
| If non-nil, delete incoming files after handling.
| If t, delete immediately, if nil, never delete. If a positive
| number, delete
| files older than number of days.
|
| Removing of old files happens in `mail-source-callback', i.e. no
| old incoming files will be deleted unless you receive new mail.
| You may also set this variable to nil and call
| `mail-source-delete-old-incoming' interactively.
`----

May I ask how to insert citations in that style into a message buffer? I
have been wondering about that before since it pops up on this list
rather frequently. So far I only know about message-mark-inserted-region
which generally suits my purposes very well but I'm still curious to
learn about „that other way“.

Not sure about that particular style (might be a vim user), but in Emacs
you can use e.g. rebox2.el with the following templates:

,---------------------------------------------------------------------
| (defconst rebox-templates
|
| ;; Generic programming language templates. Adding 300 replaces
| ;; `?' by `/', for C++ style comments. Adding 400 replaces `?' by
| ;; `#', for scripting languages. Adding 500 replaces `?' by ';',
| ;; for LISP and assembler. Adding 600 replaces `?' by `%', for
| ;; TeX and PostScript.
|
| '((10 114
| "?box123456")
|
| (11 115
| "? box123456")
|
| (12 215
| "? box123456 ?"
| "? --------- ?")
|
| (13 315
| "? --------- ?"
| "? box123456 ?"
| "? --------- ?")
|
| (14 415
| "? box123456 ?"
| "?????????????")
|
| (15 515
| "?????????????"
| "? box123456 ?"
| "?????????????")
|
| (20 124
| "??box123456")
|
| (21 125
| "?? box123456")
|
| (22 225
| "?? box123456 ??"
| "?? --------- ??")
|
| (23 325
| "?? --------- ??"
| "?? box123456 ??"
| "?? --------- ??")
|
| (24 425
| "?? box123456 ??"
| "???????????????")
|
| (25 525
| "???????????????"
| "?? box123456 ??"
| "???????????????")
|
| (30 134
| "???box123456")
|
| (31 135
| "??? box123456")
|
| (32 235
| "??? box123456 ???"
| "??? --------- ???")
|
| (33 335
| "??? --------- ???"
| "??? box123456 ???"
| "??? --------- ???")
|
| (34 435
| "??? box123456 ???"
| "?????????????????")
|
| (35 535
| "?????????????????"
| "??? box123456 ???"
| "?????????????????")
|
| (40 144
| "????box123456")
|
| (41 145
| "???? box123456")
|
| (42 245
| "???? box123456 ????"
| "???? --------- ????")
|
| (43 345
| "???? --------- ????"
| "???? box123456 ????"
| "???? --------- ????")
|
| (44 445
| "???? box123456 ????"
| "???????????????????")
|
| (45 545
| "???????????????????"
| "???? box123456 ????"
| "???????????????????")
|
| (50 154
| "?????box123456")
|
| (51 155
| "????? box123456")
|
| (60 164
| "??????box123456")
|
| (61 165
| "?????? box123456")
|
| ;;,----
| ;;| boxquote style for comments
| ;;`----
|
| (16 126
| "?,----"
| "?| box123456"
| "?`----")
|
| (17 226
| "?,----------"
| "?| box123456"
| "?`----------")
|
| (26 126
| "??,----"
| "??| box123456"
| "??`----")
|
| (27 226
| "??,----------"
| "??| box123456"
| "??`----------")
|
|
| ;;; Text mode (non programming) templates.
|
| (111 113
| "box123456")
|
| (112 213
| "| box123456 |"
| "+-----------+")
|
| (113 313
| "+-----------+"
| "| box123456 |"
| "+-----------+")
|
| (114 413
| "| box123456 |"
| "*===========*")
|
| (115 513
| "*===========*"
| "| box123456 |"
| "*===========*")
|
| (116 114
| "---------"
| "box123456"
| "---------")
|
| (121 243
| "| box123456 |")
|
| (122 223
| "| box123456 |"
| "`-----------'")
|
| (123 323
| ".-----------."
| "| box123456 |"
| "`-----------'")
|
| (124 423
| "| box123456 |"
| "\\===========/")
|
| (125 523
| "/===========\\"
| "| box123456 |"
| "\\===========/")
|
| ;; boxquote style
|
| (126 126
| ",----"
| "| box123456"
| "`----")
|
| (127 226
| ",----------"
| "| box123456"
| "`----------")
|
| (136 126
| ",----"
| "| box123456"
| "`----")
|
| (137 226
| ",----------"
| "| box123456"
| "`----------")
|
| (141 143
| "| box123456 ")
|
| (142 243
| "* box123456 *"
| "*************")
|
| (143 343
| "*************"
| "* box123456 *"
| "*************")
|
| (144 443
| "X box123456 X"
| "XXXXXXXXXXXXX")
|
| (145 543
| "XXXXXXXXXXXXX"
| "X box123456 X"
| "XXXXXXXXXXXXX")
|
| ;; C language templates.
|
| (211 118
| "/* box123456 */")
|
| (212 218
| "/* box123456 */"
| "/* --------- */")
|
| (213 318
| "/* --------- */"
| "/* box123456 */"
| "/* --------- */")
|
| (214 418
| "/* box123456 */"
| "/* ========= */")
|
| (215 518
| "/* ========= */"
| "/* box123456 */"
| "/* ========= */")
|
| (221 128
| "/*"
| " box123456"
| " */")
|
| (222 228
| "/* ."
| " | box123456 |"
| " `----------*/")
|
| (223 328
| "/*----------."
| "| box123456 |"
| "`----------*/")
|
| (224 428
| "/* \\"
| "| box123456 |"
| "\\==========*/")
|
| (225 528
| "/*==========\\"
| "| box123456 |"
| "\\==========*/")
|
| (231 138
| "/*"
| " | box123456"
| " */")
|
| (232 238
| "/* "
| " | box123456 | "
| " *-----------*/")
|
| (233 338
| "/*-----------* "
| " | box123456 | "
| " *-----------*/")
|
| (234 438
| "/* box123456 */"
| "/*-----------*/")
|
| (235 538
| "/*-----------*/"
| "/* box123456 */"
| "/*-----------*/")
|
| (241 148
| "/*"
| " * box123456"
| " */")
|
| (242 248
| "/* * "
| " * box123456 * "
| " *************/")
| (243 348
| "/************* "
| " * box123456 * "
| " *************/")
|
| (244 448
| "/* box123456 */"
| "/*************/")
|
| (245 548
| "/*************/"
| "/* box123456 */"
| "/*************/")
|
| ;; doxygen style
| (246 248
| "/************//**"
| " * box123456 "
| " ****************/")
|
| ))
`---------------------------------------------------------------------

[Steinar Bang]

Post by Sharon Kimble
Ever since I've started using GNUs for my email, I've been
accumulating text files in my "/home/boudiccas/Mail" directory. They
have odd names like "Incoming4414ruc" or "Incoming4414rsy", or such
like.

It's because you're running git gnus.

As Adam said, they are there to avoid a development gnus from losing
mail.

(I have been using CVS gnus and then later git gnus, since 1997, and I
currently avoid these files by not using a local file system backend for
mail. I use nnimap.)

[Sharon Kimble]

Post by Steinar Bang

Post by Sharon Kimble
Ever since I've started using GNUs for my email, I've been
accumulating text files in my "/home/boudiccas/Mail" directory. They
have odd names like "Incoming4414ruc" or "Incoming4414rsy", or such
like.

It's because you're running git gnus.
As Adam said, they are there to avoid a development gnus from losing
mail.
(I have been using CVS gnus and then later git gnus, since 1997, and I
currently avoid these files by not using a local file system backend for
mail. I use nnimap.)

Git gnus!? I'm using whatever is packaged with emacs 24.3.91.1!

I'm running nnimap for my gmails, how do you run it for a pop3
account please?

And these dratted files are still accumulating so I think that I'll
write a bash script to auto-delete them. Run from a cron job, set it
and forget it!

Thanks
Sharon.

[Steinar Bang]

Post by Sharon Kimble
Git gnus!? I'm using whatever is packaged with emacs 24.3.91.1!

If that is the case, then someone did something wrong when packaging it,
or you have the setting in your config.

Do
M-x locate-library RET gnus RET
to find out what gnus you're actually running.

[Sharon Kimble]

Post by Steinar Bang

Post by Sharon Kimble
Git gnus!? I'm using whatever is packaged with emacs 24.3.91.1!

If that is the case, then someone did something wrong when packaging it,
or you have the setting in your config.
Do
M-x locate-library RET gnus RET
to find out what gnus you're actually running.

This gives me "Library is file
/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.91/lisp/gnus/gnus.elc" which doesn't
really help, however "M-x gnus-version" gives "Gnus v5.13".

Sharon.

[Steinar Bang]

Post by Sharon Kimble
This gives me "Library is file
/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.91/lisp/gnus/gnus.elc" which doesn't
really help,

It tells me that you are actually using the gnus that comes with emacs
24.3.91.

What will help you, is this, from Adam's message:
C-h v mail-source-delete-incoming RET

In the help buffer, move the cursor to "customize" and press the RETURN
key, in the customize buffer, open the "Value Menu" and choose
"Immediately".

Then click on the "Apply" button, and then the "Apply and Save" button,
then type 'q' (without the single quotes) twice to get rid of the
customize and help buffers.

[Steinar Bang]

I'm running nnimap for my gmails, how do you run it for a pop3 account
please?

What I've done for my own POP3 accounts, is to fetchmail them to my own
IMAP server, and filter them into separate folders there, based on the
recipient.

[Sharon Kimble]

Post by Steinar Bang

I'm running nnimap for my gmails, how do you run it for a pop3 account
please?

What I've done for my own POP3 accounts, is to fetchmail them to my own
IMAP server, and filter them into separate folders there, based on the
recipient.

Thanks for this, but your method wouldn't work here, on a
stand-alone machine, no network, and one sole user, and no-one else
living here. ATM I couldn't justify to myself setting up a box to
act as a server just for handling 3 pop accounts. But it is
something that I could bear in mind for the future, so thanks again.

Sharon.

[Steinar Bang]

Thanks for this, but your method wouldn't work here, on a stand-alone
machine, no network, and one sole user, and no-one else living
here. ATM I couldn't justify to myself setting up a box to act as a
server just for handling 3 pop accounts. But it is something that I
could bear in mind for the future, so thanks again.

Bear in mind that the "server" in this case, could be the machine the
client is run on.

At least if the client machine is a linux or *BSD computer.

[Steinar Bang]

Post by Steinar Bang
Bear in mind that the "server" in this case, could be the machine the
client is run on.
At least if the client machine is a linux or *BSD computer.

Eg. if it's a debian/ubuntu/mint/etc. system:
apt-get install dovecot fetchmail
and take it from there.