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>>>>> "John" == John A Perry <perry@jpunix.jpunix.com> writes:

John> I have been using mh-e.el for several days now and have
John> noticed an interesting problem. Whenever I am through reading mail,
John> marked messages for deletion, refiled messages I wanted to keep, etc.
John> I usually pack the folder with the ESC-r sequence. If I run a
John> directory on my Mail/inbox, it looks something like this:

John> - -rw-------   1 perry    sysadmin    1290 Oct 07 06:12 #1
John> - -rw-------   1 perry    sysadmin  208162 Oct 07 06:01 #10

John> These files are the messages I just got through dealing with. Are
John> these going to accumilate in my directory forever? Am I missing some
John> crucial command for cleaning out a directory? Please advise.

No, you're not missing anything.  Yes, these files will accumulate
forever.

You could run a command once a week in a crontab like 

find ~/Mail -name "#*" -exec rm -f {}\;

if you want to get rid of them.

John> -- 
John> John A. Perry (KG5RG)  -  perry@jpunix.com
John> jpunix!perry
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