On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > Just recently (maybe after an upgrade of my system to xubuntu 16.04) > > when I save attachments from mutt it fails because it has lost the '/' > > after the 'tmpdir' directory. > > Vanilla mutt does not prepend $tmpdir when saving attachments. > Ah! See below.
> > So what's gone wrong? > > Sounds like XUbuntu has an external patch that has a problem. > No, it's my macro for saving attachments. Why it used to insert the / and doesn't any more I don't know. It used to be:- macro attach s "<save-entry><bol>/tmp<eol>" "Save to /tmp" simply adding the / has fixed my problem:- macro attach s "<save-entry><bol>/tmp/<eol>" "Save to /tmp" Thanks for the pointer about $tmpdir! :-) -- Chris Green