[1982] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Netscape mail privacy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Nov 4 07:06:30 1999
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To: "Tom Coppeto" <tom@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Nov 1999 05:36:09 EST."
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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 07:06:16 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
In message <LOBBKCACJFFHINLMJMGEIEIPCAAA.tom@mit.edu>, "Tom Coppeto" writes:
>Wow, I almost concur with jhawk. The end must be near.
Wait, stop the presses! Does the Green Building still exist? How about
the ls discuss meeting? Are the mailhubs and po servers now running
sendmail 8? ;-)
>The only question I have is what can you see that is private in the nsmail
>directory entry? Mine looks kind of bland.
Pretty much the same as the Mail directory -- the names of folders that
one's mail is subdivided into.
Oh yes, I just noticed something while checking in /afs/athena/user/j;
if someone (less than clueful) happens to set their homedir to
'system:anyuser rl', and then later runs Netscape mail, of course
their mail will be world readable. This unfortunate case would not
happen to them if the above were implemented. Admittedly, this is
relatively rare and a case of protecting users from their own purple
elephant guns/purple elephant feet...
--jhawk
