Lyndon wrote:
On Mar 5, 2017, at 7:26 PM, David Levine <levinedl(_at_)acm(_dot_)org>
wrote:
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.
The UNIX convention since forever has been to set $TMPDIR, on the assumption
that mktemp() and friends are taking care of things. I can't think of any
reason why MH should be special in this regard. This sounds like a candidate
for more code removal.
Right, $TMP support was removed from nmh a while ago. I mispoke, I should have
said that I set $TMPDIR to /tmp.
David
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