Hi David, > Not off hand. It looks like $MHTMPDIR was introduced between MH 6.8.5 > and the entry of nmh into CVS. MH 6.8.5 hard-coded the use of /tmp/.
6.8.5 was right; /tmp can be hardcoded. > The thread beginning at > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2014-01/msg00043.html > has the most recent discussion. That includes Here's what I'd like to change that to: ... * All nmh programs will put tmp files in the first non-null location of {MHTMPDIR, TMPDIR, TMP, MH Path directory}. (TMP has already been axed.) I think that list can be just TMPDIR, /tmp, allowing for deprecation time of MHTMPDIR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPDIR has some handy links. TMPDIR is POSIX, so is /tmp. For ~/mail to be present seems most odd. I can only think it was a false sense of security, storing files probably under $HOME rather than /tmp? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
