On Sep 17 at 15:43, Brett Sanger spoke: > Mutt FAQ: > Mutt leaves files called "mutt.host.123.234~" or "mutt.host.123.234.bak" > behind it! > > This is your editor, not Mutt. It is probably a good idea to modify your > editor so it won't create backup files for your mails. If you use Emacs,
My editor is Vim and I have nobackup for mutt-*. > firing up a new instance. Vim won't leave backups behind it by default. I have backups in Vim for most files except for a few ones like mutt-*, crontab*. > Liviu Daia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds: > > Apart from the editor, Ispell can be another source of stale backup > files in $tmpdir: by default, Ispell doesn't delete the files with names Yes, they probably come from Ispell. Just with `ispell -x' it shouldn't leave a backup file. And this works most of the time. > longer than 14 characters, and the temporary files created by Mutt may > have longer names; in order to fix this, the definition of "MAXNAMLEN" > in the file "config.X" in the Ispell sources has to be modified to 1024 > (or whatever is the limit on the current system), and Ispell must be > recompiled; I'll try it. Thanks. -Hanspeter
