In message <Pine.LNX.4.43.0402241938530.5951-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>, "J
eremy C. Reed" writes:
>On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, VaX#n8 wrote:
>
>> At every boot I keep getting email about files I finished editing long ago.
>> Is there something in NetBSD that cleans them out of /var/tmp/vi.recover,
>> or are we supposed to do that manually?
>
>Just do the "vi -r ..." like it suggests.
>

I do, and it says:

$ vi -r /path/to/file.txt
No files named /path/to/file.txt, readable by you, to recover

In case it's not clear, I was not editing said file when the system rebooted.
I had exited normally, and yet I still get these annoyance emails.