re: mutt question

["dan moylan-3" <user=1052@nabble.blu.org>]

derek martin writes: 
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:40:39AM -0400, dan moylan wrote: 
>>  the simple fact is that the systems are not different.  mutt saves 
>>  messages with permissions 0600 -- period -- regardless of the 
>>  permissions or location of the input file.  #$@%*&~$!  any way to 
>>  change this? 

> No.  Mutt's philosophy on this is that the user can 
> inadvertently expose himself (and IMO perhaps more 
> importantly, the sender of the data) to the risk of making 
> data which was intended to be private available to those for 
> whom access was not explicitly intended.  For example, 
> saving a decrypted version which was intended for the 
> recipient's eyes only. 

> The idea is that all data should be assumed to be private, 
> and if the user wants to make it available, it should 
> require action on his part to do so, to avoid forgetfulness 
> or user error from providing unintended access to data to 
> random people who have shell access to the same machine. 

thanks.  i wondered.  user action has been taken. 

dan 

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