On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 09:14:51AM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
shouldn't the default be rather ~/.mutt/ or ~/.cache/mutt ?

This was discussed in the ticket (https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/65).

There were various ideas, but in the end /var/tmp seemed to be the best compromise. They are basically temp files that we want to survive a reboot.

We dont want other users to read our drafts. The same argument applies for all temp files created by mutt.

They won't be.  umask is 077 in mutt.

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