From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: hengaini2055@qq.com, 26102-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:58:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k27oz3d8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20325304-0669-cc90-1bf4-d063ac69fb1c@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:23:47 -0700)
> Cc: rgm@gnu.org, hengaini2055@qq.com, 26102-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:23:47 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Both patches, as proposed, are too drastic. I could agree to the
> > second one, provided that the default is changed to build and install
> > our movemail -- this will let distributors decide whether to install
> > it or not, while keeping backward compatibility. (The NEWS part of
> > your patch should then be changed accordingly.)
>
> OK, I installed the second patch with modifications along the lines that you
> suggested, updated the documentation accordingly, and am closing this bug
> report. The patch that I installed is attached.
>
> As the default Emacs configuration still has a significant security hole, this
> patch changes 'configure' to warn about the problem if present. Although many
> distributors and/or installers will no doubt ignore the warning, at least we can
> later say in our defense that 'configure' warned them.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-17 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-15 1:14 bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server �ž��
2017-03-15 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-15 17:30 ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-15 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-15 18:15 ` Glenn Morris
2017-03-15 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-15 20:03 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-03-16 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-15 22:48 ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-16 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-17 7:23 ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-17 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-03-17 10:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-03-17 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-16 0:15 ` Glenn Morris
2017-03-16 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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