On Tuesday, 20 March 2007 at 12:39, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-03-19 14:54:04 -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > > On Saturday, 17 March 2007 at 18:40, Thomas Roessler wrote: > [...] > > > - E-Mail systems are typically set up to create inboxes with rather > > > paranoid security settings (typically 0600); regardless of what > > > the user's umask is, e-mail privacy is protected by default. > > > > This makes sense for /var/spool/mail, where the user has no control > > over the permissions of the directory. It makes a little less sense > > for mailboxes in or below $HOME. New mailboxes _in_ $HOME probably > > need this. I don't really see why mailboxes in subfolders would. > > Making a difference is unintuitive and dangerous, in particular > because files may still be moved from a private directory to a > public one, and the file permissions won't change automatically. > I think that all mailboxes should be private by default, unless > there are cases where this is a problem and a special variable > could be needed. I was not proposing that mutt should examine the path of the destination mailbox, just noting that defaults that make sense for /var/spool are less necessary in locations controlled by the user.
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