[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#673232: mutt shutdown

[Zenaan Harkness]

Yes, mutt should be able to shutdown nicely.

When editing a draft email though the external editor, e.g. vim,
emacs etc, also needs to do something sane.

For starters, the temp files of any draft you are editing can be
saved in a custom tmp dir, e.g.:

set tmpdir = "~/Mail/mutt-editor-drafts/"

This is often better in an emergency than having /tmp/ cleaned on
reboot and losing your draft. Downside is you must manually check and
clean that directory now and then.

If mutt were to process a unix "shutdown" signal, it could (assuming
concurrency issues are carefully thought about and handled) save
current mailbox status changes (like stuff "^q" or save-mailbox etc).

This sounds like a relatively "easy hack" (as the libreoffice guys
call it) for someone new chomping at the bit to start learning mutt's
code :)