Re: Mutt can not delete mails
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 02:48:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> There should be some indication at this point of why it can't
> delete your emails. The reason you see the filename
> /home/username/.mutt-cache/scratchpad/mutt-hostname… above is
> that I have set tmpdir="$HOME/.mutt-cache/scratchpad" in my
> muttrc file. I use that, rather than /tmp, because it is encrypted
> along with all of /home. But it means I have to clean it occasionally.
If mutt normally writes these "temporary files" in /tmp (whaaat, how do
you guarantee an atomic move from /tmp to /var/mail??) then the OP
should at least check the perms and ownership of /tmp.
ls -ld /tmp
We've seen *so* many people with messed-up /tmp ownership lately.
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