[mew-int 00668] Re: encoding problems with Addrbook

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Werner, 

I considered your problems again.

From: Werner LEMBERG <wl at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 00656] encoding problems with Addrbook

> It seems to me that the encoding of Addrbook should be fixed somehow
> (by adding a proper -*- coding: ... -*- line, for example).  It just
> happened to me that I had a Japanese entry in iso-2022-7bit and later
> on a Korean one in euc-kr, making the Korean entry unreadable because
> autodetect selected iso-2022-7bit for AddrBook.

You are right. The best way to fix this problem is insert
#-*-coding:ctext;-*-
in Mail/Addrbook.

I won't modify Mew to automatically insert this to
Mail/Addrbook. Rather, I will add this explanation to info.

From: Werner LEMBERG <wl at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 00657] permissions of Addrbook

> It seems to me that the permissions of Addrbook are 644.  Shouldn't
> this be 600 for obvious reasons?  If someone has changed the
> permission of files in the Mail directory (maybe I did that, but I no
> longer can remember why), it might be a good idea to ask the user
> whether he or she wants to fix that.  Maybe the permissions of the
> directories should be controlled also.

Mew creates the Mail directory with 600. So, privacy is protected by
default (unless you are using NFS). Also, Mail/Addrbook can include
other files. Since it is hard to detect all inserted files and set
their file modes, I won't modify Mew in this area.

--Kazu