Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems

[Jason Rumney]

eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) writes:

> What is ESS?  What does it do?
> 
> >     3. With mailcrypt-3.5.6, gnupg-1.0.6: when decrypting a buffer:
> >     "start-process: Removing old name: no such file or directory,
> >     d:/tmp/mailcrypt-gpg-stderr-764AJM".
> 
> Please try to supply a full recipe for reproducing the problem, starting 
> with "emacs -q --no-site-file", especially when the problem is related to 
> a package that is not part of the standard Emacs distribution, such as 
> mailcrypt.

Often problems finding temporary files are caused by packages that
use a hard-coded "/tmp" instead of `temporary-file-directory'.

Indeed, I just downloaded mailcrypt-3.5.6 and it does just that.
This bug is probably also responsible for the security alert about
using mailcrypt on NT that is reported on http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/

-- 
Jason Rumney