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2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
this is a test message, please ignore. sorry for the noise! --dkg ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch

Re: [PATCH v2] cli/insert: new message file can be world-readable (rely on umask)

2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Tue 2018-02-06 14:43:56 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > There are legitimate cases (public archives) where a user might > actually want their archive to be readable to the world. > > "notmuch insert" historically used mode 0600 (unreadable by group or > other), but that choice doesn't appear

Re: [PATCH v2] cli/insert: new message file can be world-readable (rely on umask)

2018-02-08 Thread Brian Sniffen
If there’s a hidden danger in these modes, better to leave the switch requiring octal tunes! -- Brian Sniffen > On Feb 8, 2018, at 8:40 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor > wrote: > >> On Tue 2018-02-06 14:43:56 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> There are legitimate cases (public archives) where a u

Re: [PATCH v2] cli/insert: new message file can be world-readable (rely on umask)

2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2018-02-08 20:40:40 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > postfix's local delivery agent has apparently been delivering with mode > 0600 for nearly 20 years: > > > https://github.com/vdukhovni/postfix/blame/master/postfix/src/local/maildir.c#L188 and even postfix's master process (the o

Re: [PATCH v2] cli/insert: new message file can be world-readable (rely on umask)

2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2018-02-08 20:52:41 -0500, Brian Sniffen wrote: > If there’s a hidden danger in these modes, better to leave the switch > requiring octal tunes! eh? i'm not sure i understand the argument. if there's a hidden danger, we want them to really clearly say on the tin what the hidden danger is.

[PATCH v3] cli/insert: add --world-readable flag

2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
In some cases (e.g. when building a publicly-visible e-mail archive) it doesn't make any sense to restrict visibility of the message to the current user account. This adds a --world-readable boolean option for "notmuch insert", so that those who want to archive their mail publicly can feed their a

Re: a temporary nmweb view of notmuch mailing list archive

2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sun 2018-02-04 23:09:35 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I did a bit of experimenting with Brian Sniffen's proposed notmuch-web > branch, and it's now (temporarily) publishing a view of the notmuch > mailing list here: > > https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/btsmail/ > > I DO NOT EXPECT THIS U

[PATCH] nmbug: explicitly prefer python3

2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
nmbug and notmuch-report are developer tools. It's 2018, and all developers should have python3 available. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor --- devel/nmbug/nmbug | 2 +- devel/nmbug/notmuch-report | 5 ++--- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/devel/nmbug/n

Re: Fetching from the git repositories over https?

2018-02-08 Thread Adam Plaice
Hi Daniel, Thanks very much for the reply. I fully agree that the verifying of git tags by MELPA would be valuable (and rather important from a security perspective), and will bring it up. BTW, is the GitHub mirror https://github.com/notmuch/notmuch/ mentioned in README.rst, semi-official in the