> > I would vote in flavour of allowing mutt to be run as
> > root, only to lock the memory blocks, then su to the
> > user fast as hell. I'm not saying this is the right way
> > for all users, but it might be a desirable feature for
> > some.
> 
> *grrr*
> 
> We don't go to great lengths with mutt_dotlock to be able
> to avoid running mutt with privileges, and then run it
> suid root, right?

 Just like gpg, mutt could make use of mlock() where available.
 It doesn't require root privileges on all systems.

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