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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh's Temporary Directory: ~/mail.
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David Levine |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh's Temporary Directory: ~/mail. |
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Sun, 05 Mar 2017 22:26:44 -0500 |
Ralph wrote:
> Anyone know why nmh uses ~/mail instead of /tmp? The latter may well be
> tmpfs so no disk is hit, and cleaning it isn't nmh's problem.
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/.
The thread beginning at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2014-01/msg00043.html
has the most recent discussion. But the introduction of ~/mail
(`mhpath +`, actually) was before that.
Personally, I set $TMP.
David