Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add $tmpdraftdir for composing messages.

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
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