On 2001-05-02 12:41:12 -0400, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> Yep -- strangely enough, this came up in a conversation with a
> friend yesterday. Mutt sets umask 077 in main.c and doesn't touch
> it from thereon in; there was some talk back in 1998 of fixing
> that, and patches were submitted but not included.
First of all, I'm quite sure that mutt isn't the only mailer which
is paranoid about umasks.
Second, on many systems you'll find lots of users who have whatever
loose umasks - which are frequently fine for most of the stuff they
are storing on the system, except e-mail. Think about it as mutt
failing on the safe side, that is, in favor of e-mail
confidentiality.
--
Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
