Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
As a failsafe mechanism the development versions of Gnus make a
backup
copy of all your incoming mail by default. This is usually turned off
for stable releases.
It looks like Lars overlooked this for the 5.10.1 release so anybody
using 5.10.1 who isn't aware of this setting is going to have a build
up of backup files in `gnus-directory'.
To stop the backups from being created just:
(setq mail-source-delete-incoming t)
On the other hand, it is probably a good idea to keep backups until
the stable release has matured a bit...
It would be interesting to hear from people upgrading from 5.8 to 5.10
(without going via oort). I wonder if everything Just Works, or if
something can be improved. Or maybe everyone is too afraid to
upgrade.:-)