On 11-03-2026 17:18:35 +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > 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.
Just FYI /var/tmp is wiped on every reboot on macOS. I switched to ~/.cache/mutt because re-downloading the headers from a certain provider can take several hours in which Mutt cannot be used for anything else. And of course make it a directory to benefit from per-folder dbs. That said I don't want to re-iterate or re-open the discussion, but I think it would be helpful to designate header cache as something that's more of a db thing than cache in user documentation, and to nudge towards it being a directory instead of a file too. Thanks, Fabian > > >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. > > -- > Kevin J. McCarthy > GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA
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