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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Georg Faerber <georg@riseup.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Permissions of files created by notmuch
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Georg Faerber <georg@riseup.net> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm using notmuch 0.26-1+b2 out of Debian unstable.
> The files created inside .notmuch/xapian by notmuch are group and world
> readable.  Is this on purpose? This seems quite suboptimal, especially
> if one is using the recently introduced cleartext indexing feature..
>

I would expect Xapian (and hence notmuch) to use the users umask when
creating those files. Are you saying that's not the case, or that you
expect Xapian/notmuch to override the user's umask?

d