Dear mutt-users list, I have a small problem with mutt on my laptop.
When I try to use the <edit> command on a message mutt tells me: "could not create temporary folder: No such file or directory" Writing new messages works just fine. In my muttrc, I have: set tmpdir="/home/mpromber/.mutt/tmp" Mutt does put the files for messages I'm currently writing there, with filenames like "mutt-lauren-1000-22804-0". Fine. When I try to edit a message (hitting "e" in the index) and get the above error, mutt also creates a file with a name like this in that folder, but they all have size "0", like this: -rw------- 1 mpromber mpromber 0 2009-06-16 13:10 mutt-lauren-1000-22110-0 Possibly related: My "~/.mutt" dir is in fact a symlink to a dir inside a dir that I encrypt and decrypt using ENCFS: lauren:~$ l .mutt lrwxrwxrwx 1 mpromber mpromber 26 2009-06-16 12:40 .mutt -> /home/mpromber/stuff/.mutt (But that folder is decrypted when I run into the problem, and the problem arises at the same time when I can write new messages, which writes to the same folder). In muttrc: set editor="emacs -nw" Does anyone have an idea what would be causing this? Is mutt trying to create a different temporary folder, and if so, where? If it is, why is it putting these empty files into $HOME/.mutt/tmp/ ? Marianne