On 3/15/2012 6:12 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > On 2012-03-15, at 11:04 AM, Jon Steinhart wrote: >> But times have changed, and it doesn't work well with new stuff like dropbox. > And dropbox is not a typical directory in the filesystem. If you use a > service that explicitly makes files publicly available you shouldn't be > surprised when it does what it's advertised to do. > > MH – quite reasonably – assumes UNIX filesystem semantics. In particular, it > assumes the permission bits are honoured, and it uses those bits to protect > the file from public scrutiny. If dropbox chooses to ignore the permission > bits, that's hardly MH's fault.
making this always be ~/@ rather than ./@ would fix this, even on dropbox systems, wouldn't it? _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
