Neil W Rickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> That brings up another point (perhaps a bug?)
>
> Msg-Protect: 664
>
> (from my '.mh_profile') is ignored on "Fcc:". Thus if a folder
> is shared between users, messages recorded by "Fcc:" are not
> shareable -- they get 600 permissions, which is probably the compiled
> default Msg-Protect).
>
> Likewise, if 'refile' of a message crosses partition boundaries,
> so that the file must be copied, the refile message does not
> honor Msg-Protect, and does not preserve the original
> message filemode. It apparently gets the original filemode masked
> by the umask.
>
> Both of these problems would hinder sharing a folder. Incidently, MH
> appears to have the same problems, so this is not new to nmh.
>
> Perhaps the existence of these bugs is evidence that Dan is right in
> his opinion that shared folders are rarely used. For me the bugs are
> only a minor inconvenience. I used shared folders, but I share them
> with myself (administrative account and personal account).
Well, considering how hosed the Folder-Protect handling (affecting the
single-user case too) was before I took a whack at it some time back, the
existence of Msg-Protect bugs may not prove *too* much.
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