Thus spake Kyle Wheeler [10/01/08 @ 09.12.14 -0500]: > On Wednesday, October 1 at 09:13 AM, quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > 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? > > Files of that name pattern are from composing a message, and *should* > be deleted when the message is sent. > > Do they have a ~ at the end of them, maybe? They might be tmp files > that your *editor* creates while editing your messages (which, > obviously, mutt wouldn't know about).
No, no '~' or other backup-filey kind of suffix or prefix. I use vim for editing, and have not---as far as I know---tweaked any vim setting that deals with backups. (Doing other things in vim does not leave stuff anywhere that I know about, for instance, except a .swp file during a crash or aborted session). -gmn