* Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> [08-16-16 13:40]:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > > Just recently (maybe after an upgrade of my system to xubuntu 16.04)
> > > when I save attachments from mutt it fails because it has lost the '/'
> > > after the 'tmpdir' directory.
> > 
> > Vanilla mutt does not prepend $tmpdir when saving attachments.
> > 
> Ah!  See below.
> 
> > > So what's gone wrong?
> > 
> > Sounds like XUbuntu has an external patch that has a problem.
> > 
> No, it's my macro for saving attachments.  Why it used to insert the /
> and doesn't any more I don't know.
> 
> It used to be:-
>     macro   attach  s "<save-entry><bol>/tmp<eol>" "Save to /tmp"
> simply adding the / has fixed my problem:-
>     macro   attach  s "<save-entry><bol>/tmp/<eol>" "Save to /tmp"
> 
> Thanks for the pointer about $tmpdir!  :-)

Being your macro doesn't mean *buntu doesn't have an external patch with a
problem which you see as missing "/".

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