I have noticed that Kmail gives attachments the following permissions: -rw-r--r--. For instance, I sent myself a C binary. It left as -rwxr-xr-x but the when it arrivied, the permissions were -rw-r--r--. Is this a feature of just Kmail or do all linux MUA's (Pine, Mutt, Balsa ...) do this? -- Cheers, Jonathan
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 06:28:41PM -0500, J. Drews wrote:
I have noticed that Kmail gives attachments the following permissions: -rw-r--r--. For instance, I sent myself a C binary. It left as -rwxr-xr-x but the when it arrivied, the permissions were -rw-r--r--. Is this a feature of just Kmail or do all linux MUA's (Pine, Mutt, Balsa ...) do this? -- Cheers,
Jonathan
Mmm. Your MUA just attaches the file as whatever type it decides it is, in the case of an executable it will probably be attached as base64 octet stream. How is a recipient MUA supposed to know this is an executable file ? It could be anything. Presumably it is just saved according to umask settings etc. File permissions are a function of the entity as it exists in the file system, they are not part of the data you attach. Anyway, what is it supposed to do if you send it to a non-linux system .. ? -- Regards Cliff
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