From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 28597@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:11:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mv5d5ngv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ewh74oq.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (nljlistbox2@gmail.com)
> From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
> Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 28597@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:14:29 -0400
>
> > That default is activated only if you do [have Mailutils].
>
> I see.
>
> I don't think that makes sense, does it?
I hope it does, as this is what I asked for at the time, for reasons
that did make sense to me.
> There's nothing terribly odd about my system and if the warning
> message from config is true, then _by default_ I'm going to get
> built an insecure Emacs.
Only if you use POP3 to fetch your mail. Which I presume you don't;
if you did; building --without-pop by default would have left you with
no way of getting your email into Emacs.
> I think that --without-pop should be the default. Unconditionally.
We should think about all of our users when we make such decisions. I
myself don't use unencrypted POP3 either, but I'm worried about the
effect this change could have on someone who does.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-29 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-25 15:11 bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default N. Jackson
2017-09-25 15:21 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-26 9:13 ` Robert Pluim
2017-09-26 15:39 ` Glenn Morris
2017-09-26 17:22 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-26 18:51 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-29 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 14:05 ` Robert Pluim
2017-09-29 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 20:04 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-02 16:29 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-02 18:23 ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-03 8:09 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-03 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-03 15:03 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-03 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-03 22:47 ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-04 7:14 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-16 2:34 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-09-29 16:07 ` N. Jackson
2017-09-29 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 18:14 ` N. Jackson
2017-09-29 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-10-02 17:22 ` N. Jackson
2017-10-02 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-02 18:00 ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-02 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-02 23:20 ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-03 2:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-03 14:29 ` N. Jackson
2017-10-03 14:55 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-03 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-02 18:00 ` Paul Eggert
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