Re: Update encoding message - why?
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:05:48AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:01:18PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > For some reason when I send mail using mutt I now get the following
> > question when I hit [s]end:-
> >
> > /proj/chris/tmp/mutt-crusade-1385-0 [#1] modified. Update encoding?
> >
> > Can anyone suggest what I need to change on my new machine so this
> > goes away? I guess it's something arcane to do with locales or
> > similar but I don't really know where to look at the moment.
>
> I'm not sure how to solve your problem, but I don't believe it has
> anything to do with locales... Mutt usually asks that question if you
> have modified a file after attaching it to your message. IIRC, it
> saves a temporary copy of the attachment as part of your mail. If you
> modify the original, mutt notices and asks you if you want to update
> it. But I've never seen mutt do that to the body of the message
> itself...
>
Thanks! That gave me a clue, it has something to do with the tmpdir
setting. I had "set tmpdir=/proj/chris/tmp" which, originally, was on
the local hard disk, on the new machine it is an NFS mount. I've
changed it to "set tmpdir=/tmp" and my problem has gone away! :-)
So for some peculiar reason the question was being caused by my tmpdir
being on an NFS mounted drive.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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