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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 |
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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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