Re: [Nmh-workers] temporary files

[paul vixie]

On 3/15/2012 6:12 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> On 2012-03-15, at 11:04 AM, Jon Steinhart wrote:
>> But times have changed, and it doesn't work well with new stuff like dropbox.
> And dropbox is not a typical directory in the filesystem.  If you use a 
> service that explicitly makes files publicly available you shouldn't be 
> surprised when it does what it's advertised to do.
>
> MH – quite reasonably – assumes UNIX filesystem semantics.  In particular, it 
> assumes the permission bits are honoured, and it uses those bits to protect 
> the file from public scrutiny.  If dropbox chooses to ignore the permission 
> bits, that's hardly MH's fault.

making this always be ~/@ rather than ./@ would fix this, even on
dropbox systems, wouldn't it?