Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!ria.ccs.uwo.ca!peter
From: peter@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Peter Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Mail purger
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.161457@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: 17 Jan 91 21:14:57 GMT
References: <9101171719.AA07907@coke.eng.umd.edu>
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In article <9101171719.AA07907@coke.eng.umd.edu>, ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU
(Eric Ziegast) writes:
|> 
|> Some people out there may be wondering why thier mail directories
are
|> taking up so much space even though they may be reletively empty.
|> When rmm is used, MH adds a hash mark (#) to the beginning of the
|> filename of the message.  The message is not deleted.  This is good
|> because it serves as a backup feature, but it is also bad if you're
|> short of disk space and want to free some by removing Mail messages.

If you put the line 
	rmmproc: rm
into you .mh_profile, then "rm" will be used to delete things and the
hash (#*) files will not appear.  You loose the backup, but you don't
have to remember to clean up either.

For some reason the Draft-Folder directory still gets cluttered up with
files that begin with a comma ",".  (Not to mention all those emacs
files ending with "~" that get left around....)

--
Peter Marshall, Manager (Academic Networking)
CCS, NSC, U. of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5B7
(519)661-2111x6032
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