Respect `umask` when saving attachments about neomutt HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for the links! Indeed only deleting the umask line in main.c doesn't help the attachments scenario. Removing Changing the 0600 argument in the mutt/file.c file, does make the running shell's umask be honored by mutt. use different permission.

Now with the provided pointers, it should be fairly easy to create a configuration option that will make neomutt honor umask at least for saving attachments. I'd like to work on that, if you'd accept the feature.

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It would have been great if neomutt would have honored umask, or if it would have been possible to configure it to honor umask settings.

I had a brief look into this. Seems like we override the umask during startup:

However, even if we wouldn't do that, we explicitly create files with permission 0600, so no matter the umask you could never add bits for the group.

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Now with the provided pointers, it should be fairly easy to create a configuration option that will make neomutt honor umask at least for saving attachments.

Based on my experience nothing is "easy" in NeoMutt land. 😏

I'd like to work on that, if you'd accept the feature.

Thank you for working on this already! I left some early thoughts. I'm also just a contributor so we need @flatcap's opinion here.

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