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
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