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. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
