Re: [perl #74712] perlbug deletes copy it says it is leaving in/tmp after send failure

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:08:38PM -0700, Jim Avera wrote:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> If the perlbug program can not find sendmail on the system, then it
> prints a message like:
>   "I am terribly sorry, blah blah
>   So you may attempt to find some way of sending your message, it
>   has been left in the file `/tmp/m9zucMLjfS'.  "
> 
> However, no such temp file is left behind, so there is no way for the user to recover.  
> I suspect the temp file is being auto-deleted when perlbug exits.

Thanks for the report.
This has been fixed in 5.12.0, which on failure prompts you for the name
of a file to save to.

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• [perl #74712] perlbug deletes copy it says it is leaving in /tmp after send failure by Jim Avera
• Re: [perl #74712] perlbug deletes copy it says it is leaving in/tmp after send failure by Dave Mitchell