<edit> gives "cannot write to temporary folder"
Dear mutt-users list,
I have a small problem with mutt on my laptop.
When I try to use the <edit> command on a message mutt tells me:
"could not create temporary folder: No such file or directory"
Writing new messages works just fine.
In my muttrc, I have:
set tmpdir="/home/mpromber/.mutt/tmp"
Mutt does put the files for messages I'm currently writing there, with
filenames like "mutt-lauren-1000-22804-0". Fine. When I try to edit a
message (hitting "e" in the index) and get the above error, mutt also
creates a file with a name like this in that folder, but they all have
size "0", like this:
-rw------- 1 mpromber mpromber 0 2009-06-16 13:10 mutt-lauren-1000-22110-0
Possibly related:
My "~/.mutt" dir is in fact a symlink to a dir inside a dir that I encrypt
and decrypt using ENCFS:
lauren:~$ l .mutt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mpromber mpromber 26 2009-06-16 12:40 .mutt ->
/home/mpromber/stuff/.mutt
(But that folder is decrypted when I run into the problem, and the
problem arises at the same time when I can write new messages, which
writes to the same folder).
In muttrc: set editor="emacs -nw"
Does anyone have an idea what would be causing this? Is mutt trying to
create a different temporary folder, and if so, where? If it is, why
is it putting these empty files into $HOME/.mutt/tmp/ ?
Marianne