Telsa Gwynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 17 Aug 2000:
> So I get a ton of similar-style file names. In my case, they're backups
> produced by my editor. One for each message I wrote. Most of them are
> not empty, but are just copies of the emails I was replying to.
Well, if the editor makes backups of the temporary files in /tmp, Mutt
has no way of knowing that or to clean up afterwards. So the solution
to this kind of problem is to turn backup creation off for the editor
when used as Mutt's editor. Ie. an editor configuration issue, not
really a Mutt issue (although you may need to change $editor).
But I'm not sure if the files in /tmp experienced by the original poster
are backups or not, they didn't look like the usual backups. Only he
can tell, I suppose. On the other hand, I can't really see in which
situation such empty files would be left behind, apart from this editor
backups issue.
Regards,
Mikko
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