From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please try Pmail
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:40:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv63kc5ozz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6303c31.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:47:46 -0500")
>> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-18 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-18 3:43 Please try Pmail Richard M Stallman
2009-01-18 14:47 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-18 15:06 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-01-18 20:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-01-19 1:41 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-19 2:57 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-20 4:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-20 14:20 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-21 2:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-21 4:11 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-21 4:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-21 15:06 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-21 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-21 21:21 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-22 4:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-22 4:55 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-23 1:52 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-23 2:35 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-21 20:32 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-21 21:07 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-20 23:00 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-21 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-20 1:00 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-19 4:31 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-19 14:39 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-19 1:59 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-20 0:59 ` Richard M Stallman
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