Re: Can it be that mail that is saved in my home dir is world readable ?

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

shaul wrote:
  >I am using exmh as my MUA.
  >Can it be that my saved mail is world readable, or did I managed to change t
      >he 
  >permissions without being aware of that ?
  >Can an exmh user send me the correct permissions ?
  >
  >[14:20:13 shaul]$ ls -l ~shaul/Mail/hardware/1
  >-rw-r--r--   1 shaul    shaul        3321 Dec  9 01:03 
  >/home/shaul/Mail/hardware/1
 
I think mh uses your umask to determine permissions.

However, you can block all access, regardless, by removing permissions
from your top-level Mail directory:

$ ls -ld Mail
drwx------  40 olly     olly         2048 Dec 18 07:08 Mail

The permissions below this can be as free as you like; no-one except
myself can descend the tree to access the files.


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