Thus spake Kyle Wheeler [09/30/08 @ 16.01.37 -0500]: > On Tuesday, September 30 at 10:18 PM, quoth Mauro Sacchetto: > > I set mutt to put all tmp file in ~/mail/tmp. > > However, at present I've a lot of file, many empty > > or backup files. Is there an (automatic) method > > to delete the all there not useful files? > > Generally, mutt shouldn't leave files behind. There have been one or > two bugs that would cause it to leave files behind (that have been > fixed) and one or two issues with broken filesystems that would cause > files to be left behind (which can't be fixed). You should update to > the most recent version of mutt in order to make sure those bugs are > fixed, but generally, you should be able to delete everything in the > tmp folder whenever mutt exits - you can create a shell script wrapper > around mutt to make that happen.
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? -gmn
