On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 02:48:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > There should be some indication at this point of why it can't > delete your emails. The reason you see the filename > /home/username/.mutt-cache/scratchpad/mutt-hostname… above is > that I have set tmpdir="$HOME/.mutt-cache/scratchpad" in my > muttrc file. I use that, rather than /tmp, because it is encrypted > along with all of /home. But it means I have to clean it occasionally.
If mutt normally writes these "temporary files" in /tmp (whaaat, how do you guarantee an atomic move from /tmp to /var/mail??) then the OP should at least check the perms and ownership of /tmp. ls -ld /tmp We've seen *so* many people with messed-up /tmp ownership lately.
