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Re: Please try Pmail


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Please try Pmail
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:40:00 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

>> Pmail is basically working now.  I have used it for all my mail
>> reading for weeks, and I have also gone through all the code making
>> sure all the commands work.  So please try it.
>> 
>> I see no reason not to include it in the next release.
>> It should not cause any delay.

Great!  How 'bout moving pmail*.el over rmail*.el, then?

> Thanks.  First, the swapping code in pmail should be tweaked to use
> write-region-annotate, like in Stefan's 2008-12-30 change to
> tar-mode.el.

Sounds right.

> Also, I've been wondering about the following code in pmail.el, which is
> used to perform babyl-to-mbox conversion.  It uses temp-files to
> transfer the data.  Would this lead to a security hole via symlink
> attack?  Could someone suggest a solution?  (Maybe a simple fix is to
> make the temp files in .emacs.d?)

It uses `make-temp-file' whose main purpose is to encpasulate the code
needed to create a temp file safely.  If make-temp-file is not safe,
then we should fix it.


        Stefan




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