Re: [Nmh-workers] Non-attachment related request

2014-01-19 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jan 18, 2014, at 11:38 AM, David Levine wrote: > Instead of using nmh-storage for tmp > files, maybe we should use MHTMPDIR/TMPDIR/TMP? If we change this we should defer to mkstemp() (which defaults to /tmp in the absence of $TMPDIR). If there are any platforms that don't provide mkstemp()

Re: [Nmh-workers] Non-attachment related request

2014-01-18 Thread Jon Steinhart
Ralph Corderoy writes: > Hi Jon, > > > Yes, I do kill things lots of times. > ... > > Let's say that I have things configured to display attached images. > > Some mailers lard up messages with all sorts of tiny images, like one > > for every social media site in existence. It's easier for me to h

Re: [Nmh-workers] Non-attachment related request

2014-01-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Jon, > Yes, I do kill things lots of times. ... > Let's say that I have things configured to display attached images. > Some mailers lard up messages with all sorts of tiny images, like one > for every social media site in existence. It's easier for me to hit > ^C than it is to navigate over t

Re: [Nmh-workers] Non-attachment related request

2014-01-18 Thread Ken Hornstein
>BTW, this reminds me, this is also the reason why I grumble about having nmh >make everything a MIME message by default. I seem to recall that it's very >hard or impossible to make pagers work properly, especially if you want to pipe >the output into something. So, a couple of things: - A singl

Re: [Nmh-workers] Non-attachment related request

2014-01-18 Thread David Levine
Jon wrote: > BTW, this reminds me, this is also the reason why I grumble about > having nmh make everything a MIME message by default. I seem to > recall that it's very hard or impossible to make pagers work > properly, especially if you want to pipe the output into something. show -noc[heckmime

Re: [Nmh-workers] Non-attachment related request

2014-01-18 Thread Jon Steinhart
David Levine writes: > Jon wrote: > > > Don't know if anybody knows why this happens or cares enough to fix it, > > but every once in a while I have to go into my Mail directory and remove > > piles of mhshow and post temporary files. Would probably better to put > > these into /tmp where they wo

Re: [Nmh-workers] Non-attachment related request

2014-01-18 Thread David Levine
Jon wrote: > Don't know if anybody knows why this happens or cares enough to fix it, > but every once in a while I have to go into my Mail directory and remove > piles of mhshow and post temporary files. Would probably better to put > these into /tmp where they would automatically be cleaned up b

[Nmh-workers] Non-attachment related request

2014-01-18 Thread Jon Steinhart
Don't know if anybody knows why this happens or cares enough to fix it, but every once in a while I have to go into my Mail directory and remove piles of mhshow and post temporary files. Would probably better to put these into /tmp where they would automatically be cleaned up by regular automatic