On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 03:03:29PM +0100, Joerg Dorchain wrote: > > I had a similiar effect when for obscure reasons /tmp was not writeable.
Thanks for the suggestion, Joerg! raven:/ # ls -ld /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 17 root root 680 Dec 18 15:46 /tmp/ raven:/ # df -h /tmp/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 2.0G 884K 2.0G 1% /tmp raven:/ # I guess this should be OK. When /tmp is not writable, I usually see two problems: 1. On exit, mutt complains that it can't purge deleted messages. 2. When writing a mail, mutt won't be able to create the temporary file with the mail header in it. But I don't see both of those symptoms: 1. On exit, Mutt happily rewrites the mailbox file and purges deleted messages. Even the mail contents of not deleted mails are preserved. 2. When writing a mail, the temporary file IS created with proper header lines and signature. Only the quoted part is missing when replying. -- Josef Wolf j...@raven.inka.de
