Re: mutt tmp files
Hi,
Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> 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.
I've encountered the same thing here and just rechecked. With mutt
running, reading this mailing list, I find these files under /tmp:
3870 Oct 2 22:34 mutt-denkbrett-1000-16736-253
4511 Oct 2 22:34 mutt-denkbrett-1000-16736-259
4842 Oct 2 22:35 mutt-denkbrett-1000-16736-261
(denkbrett == hostname, 1000==uid, 16736 seems to bei mutt's pid)
I wrote some mails in the same mutt session before.
After exiting mutt, all files are gone. Restart mutt, open this list's
mailing list folder, and read some mails, these files reappear:
1079 Oct 2 22:36 mutt-denkbrett-1000-21269-14
1648 Oct 2 22:44 mutt-denkbrett-1000-21269-16
5662 Oct 2 22:36 mutt-denkbrett-1000-21269-3
4237 Oct 2 22:36 mutt-denkbrett-1000-21269-7
4849 Oct 2 22:36 mutt-denkbrett-1000-21269-9
One file contains the mail I am composing right now, the other files
contain various answers from this thread.
If I switch to another imap folder, these files are deleted.
I am using mutt 1.5.13 (or rather the heavily patched version) from
Debian unstable.
Cheers,
Wolf
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