On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:18:14AM -0500, David Champion wrote: > * On 05 May 2010, Michael Elkins wrote: > > > > Mutt currently doesn't have a way to change the umask (I guess > > nobody has asked for this before :-). It is hardcoded to 077 when > > Mutt initializes. If you can recompile, the appropriate line t > > change is main.c line 569, at least for unix mbox format. > > This thread has a patch with some discussion of pros and cons: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00382.html > Goodness gracious, what a can of worms! :-)
All I wanted to relax the permissions for is to allow a Web application (running as user www-data) to access and display some of my E-Mail messages. I guess I can just do it 'manually' using chmod on the specific folders in question. -- Chris Green
