On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 23:37:03 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> 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 to have been specifically > justified (perhaps an abundance of caution?). I can't remember any specific reason for 0600 instead of 0644. Probably just assumed that mail is supposed to be private. > If the user wants "notmuch insert" to create files that are not > readable by group or other, they can set their umask more > restrictively. By calling notmuch through a wrapper shell script, I suppose. The mode for --create-folder should be reconsidered as well. Peter _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch