Re: mutt tmp files
Thus spake Kyle Wheeler [09/30/08 @ 16.01.37 -0500]:
> On Tuesday, September 30 at 10:18 PM, quoth Mauro Sacchetto:
> > I set mutt to put all tmp file in ~/mail/tmp.
> > However, at present I've a lot of file, many empty
> > or backup files. Is there an (automatic) method
> > to delete the all there not useful files?
>
> Generally, mutt shouldn't leave files behind. There have been one or
> two bugs that would cause it to leave files behind (that have been
> fixed) and one or two issues with broken filesystems that would cause
> files to be left behind (which can't be fixed). You should update to
> the most recent version of mutt in order to make sure those bugs are
> fixed, but generally, you should be able to delete everything in the
> tmp folder whenever mutt exits - you can create a shell script wrapper
> around mutt to make that happen.
Hmm. Mutt has *always* left plenty of files behind for me. Starting with
1.4.something and all the way into 1.5.18. On OSX Panther, Tiger, and Leopard.
It leaves things in the folder I defined as the tmpdir. Usually the files are
empty, but sometimes they are saved states of mails I was writing.
These files always have a name that looks something like:
mutt-hostname-501-somenumbers-somemorenumbers
I manually clean them out once in a while. I thought this was normal. Is mutt
bugging out on the Mac?
-gmn