On Mon, Sep  4, 2000, Mikko H�nninen wrote:
> Yes.  Mutt now creates the User-Agent header instead of X-Mailer.
> User-Agent is preferred over X-Mailer.

Ah, thanks.

> It sounds like whenever you edit an email message text with vim, and
> save and exit, vim creates a backup copy of the original.  Mutt knows
> to delete the temporary file from /tmp (containing the real text) but
> it can't know about the backup copies created by your editor.
> 
> The solution is to configure vim not to create backups of edited files.
> I believe it's:  :set nobackup
> 
> If you want to normally have backups, then you need a default
> configuration and a configuration just for editing emails.

That was it, thanks, Mikko.  I never set it, and vim help says that
writebackup and nobackup is default.  I looked at the settings and
sure enough for some reason backup was set.  Someone must have rebuilt
vim on the server setting that.


-Ken

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