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Re: permissions on files saved by mutt



Hello,

> I'm sure I've seen this somewhere in the documentation but I can't
> find it now.  Files saved by (my copy of) mutt here have 0600
> permissions, my default umask should give them 0644 permissions.

> How do I get mutt ot use the default umask, or set mutt's permissions
> somehow?

> I have checked that my default umask is working for other programs
> which create files.

it can be configured in mutt-ng but not in mutt. However you can tweak
the save file mask by a trivial patch. Or just import the corresponding
delta from mutt-ng.

        Thomas