On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:01:20PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 03:09:57AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Machines get rebooted because of (temporary) power > > outage (happens quite often) or because they crash (happens quite > > often too). That's the real world. [...] > You can [...] write your e-mail on a laptop, which I'd be a little > surprised if you weren't already doing anyway.
And speaking of laptops, another fine way to solve this problem, assuming you access your multi-user system where you read your mail via ssh, is to read your mail on your laptop by running imapd locally on the server in PREAUTH mode, over an SSH connection. Mutt supports this via the $tunnel command. You can then put $TMPDIR wherever you want, on your laptop, and have full control over the semantics there, and don't have to care that your multi-user-system's home directory is on NFS or otherwise has semantics you don't like. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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