mutt's umask is inherited from the environment that started mutt.
In other words, its using your umask, so change your umask (umask 06).
If you just want mutt's umask to be different, write a script to start
mutt that sets the umask then execs mutt.
--- umutt ---
#!/bin/sh
umask 06
exec mutt $*
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Sam
Quoting Mark Sheppard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who wrote:
> How do I set the file permissions for my saved mail? I've looked
> through the documentation and can't find any setting for this (there's
> nothing mentioning "umask", "perm" or "mode"). When mail gets saved
> it creates files with 600 permissions whereas I want 660.
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Sam Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
