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Re: tmpdir directive



On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:37:28PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:31:08AM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote:
> > I was wondering why the tmp files that mutt creates stay around in /tmp. Is 
> > this something to expect, or is there something that mutt isn't doing to 
> > remove these temporary files after some operation is performed on the piece 
> > of mail?
> 
> It's probably a bug.  I found a bug like this a long while back having
> to do with traditional PGP's temp files...  That bug was fixed by
> Thomas, but I still occasionally get some of those.  Haven't had time
> to track down why.  I have a suspicion though... might be related to
> postponed messages.
> 
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I don't think it's a bug. Mutt developers meant not to delete tmp files.


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