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Re: mutt cache sensitivity



On Wednesday, 28 March 2007 at 17:32, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 28 at 02:07 PM, quoth Brendan Cully:
> >>It seems to me that mutt should cache messages to a temporary location and 
> >>only move them into the official message cache once the message has been 
> >>fully downloaded.
> >
> >Sounds like a fine plan. It should be about the same amount of work to 
> >unlink the file on failure though.
> 
> True, but that's only if it failed in a good way. If it failed because... 
> well, let's say I accidentally open up a message someone sent me that's big 
> (oh, like 50 MB). I decide I'm not in the mood to download it all and figure 
> out what to do with it, because I'm in a hurry, so I kill mutt (ctrl-\, 
> because ctrl-c won't stop a download). The cache will be corrupted, because 
> mutt didn't get a chance to unlink it out of the cache.

That's a fair point.

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