paul vixie writes:
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 us
es those bits to protect the file from public scrutiny. If dropbox chooses
to ignore the permission bits, that's hardly MH's fau
lt.
making this always be ~/@ rather than ./@ would fix this, even on
dropbox systems, wouldn't it?
Answering both at once.
On one hand I agree with you, on another I don't. The @ file is something that
is hardly every seen; one won't even notice unless one suspends when replying or
is looking at the same directory from another window. It has the element of
surprise which is not a great thing in the UI sense.
I would suggest making it `mhpath +`/@ instead of ~/@. Should be fine in ~ but
people expect mail stuff in the mail directory, and there are already plenty of
other temporary files that go there such as occasional turds left over from
post.
Jon
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