On Sat, 23 May 2026, via Alpine-info wrote:
Sometimes while in an inbox you can type a c and it will say "continue
interrupted composition" but this seems rather spiratic.
In this case I open a new ssh session with the new IP, kill the previous
session (which also kills alpine), and then when I resume alpine I can use
"C I" to resume interrupted mail composition
When the user chooses to cancel a message within Alpine (^C, then C to
confirm), Alpine saves the cancelled message to ${HOME}/dead.letter. This
behaviour can optionally be disabled in your settings.
Ok:
[ ] Do Not Save to Deadletter on Cancel
And this works.
When the Alpine process is terminated gracefully (i.e., by a catchable
signal: a regular "kill" from another window, ssh connection dies, host gets
gracefully shutdown/rebooted, etc), it writes any message in progress to
${HOME}/.pine-interrupted-mail before gracefully exiting. As far as I know,
this cannot be disabled in settings. When Alpine starts back up again, it
checks for a ${HOME}/.pine-interrupted-mail file, and, if it finds one, it
offers you to resume your interrupted composition.
Ok. The only problem here is that this seems to be a mbox folder that
isn't available in maildir config (or may be in my config).
As far as I know, Alpine has no mechanism to periodically "auto-save" a
message in progress. So if the Alpine process is terminated *ungracefully*
(e.g., non-catchable signal such as "kill -9", host loses power, etc), then
your message will be lost. The only workaround that comes to mind is that
you could use an external editor that does offer auto-save. vim, for
example, frequently auto-saves your work in progress, so that if it dies
unceremoniously, you can recover your work from pretty close to the time that
it died. In a case like this, Alpine could not automatically help you find
and resume the interrupted message; it would be up to you to know where/how
the editor places its auto-saves and to recover the one you're looking for.
Thanks for this hints.
I use the standard editor (pico). I found some file like this:
#pico50738#
in the user's home.
Tey are what I was searching.
Thanks, Paolo
P.DS.: obviously I use tmux ... ;-)
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