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to: NIELS HAEDECKE
from: ANDREW LEARY
date: 2020-05-30 02:53:00
subject: What does `Msg Kinds` spe

Hello Niels!

25 May 20 13:44, you wrote to Vincent Coen:

 NH> So as you can see, the user I'm logged in (test) can see that there
 NH> are private messages between amiganer and lodger. He can even see the
 NH> subject of any private message. This should not be possible. When
 NH> querying the local, private echo, user "test" should not see any
 NH> messages listed he is neither sender nor recipient of.

 NH> However, when user "test" is then trying to read one of the two
 NH> messages he was shown, he gets:

 NH> "This is a private message; only the owner and addressee can view it."

 NH> So is this the expected behaviour and could this be fixed so you can't
 NH> "spy" on other conversation topics and participants by running the
 NH> Quickscan command.

This bug has been fixed in v1.0.7.16, which was just committed to the 
SourceForge Mercurial and Git repositories.

Thanks for letting me know about the issue.

Andrew

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