Hi, * Marianne wrote:
> When I try to use the <edit> command on a message mutt tells me: > "could not create temporary folder: No such file or directory" > Writing new messages works just fine. > In my muttrc, I have: > set tmpdir="/home/mpromber/.mutt/tmp" > Mutt does put the files for messages I'm currently writing there, with > filenames like "mutt-lauren-1000-22804-0". Fine. When I try to edit a > message (hitting "e" in the index) and get the above error, mutt also > creates a file with a name like this in that folder, but they all have > size "0", like this: > -rw------- 1 mpromber mpromber 0 2009-06-16 13:10 mutt-lauren-1000-22110-0 > Possibly related: > My "~/.mutt" dir is in fact a symlink to a dir inside a dir that I encrypt > and decrypt using ENCFS: > lauren:~$ l .mutt > lrwxrwxrwx 1 mpromber mpromber 26 2009-06-16 12:40 .mutt -> > /home/mpromber/stuff/.mutt > (But that folder is decrypted when I run into the problem, and the > problem arises at the same time when I can write new messages, which > writes to the same folder). > In muttrc: set editor="emacs -nw" > Does anyone have an idea what would be causing this? Is mutt trying to > create a different temporary folder, and if so, where? If it is, why > is it putting these empty files into $HOME/.mutt/tmp/ ? When editing messages, mutt tries to create an empty mbox file in $tmpdir. At the moment I have no real idea why this would fail if it otherwise can create tempfiles (i.e. permission problems can be excluded here). Maybe the symlink is the trouble, I don't know. Can you try with a $tmpdir that is not a symlink? Rocco
