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Re: mutt tmp files



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On Wednesday, October  1 at 09:13 AM, quoth dv1445@xxxxxxxxx:
> 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?

Files of that name pattern are from composing a message, and *should* 
be deleted when the message is sent.

Do they have a ~ at the end of them, maybe? They might be tmp files 
that your *editor* creates while editing your messages (which, 
obviously, mutt wouldn't know about).

~Kyle
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