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

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