From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: movemail
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 21:46:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83shhbyvlw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1bcddec1-befd-fffc-b5b4-ec7f1e3bd844@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 1 Aug 2017 09:18:57 -0700)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 09:18:57 -0700
>
> >> Should we delete the movemail program, given these problems with it?
> > No, because non-Posix systems have no choice but use it. Gnu
> > Mailutils are blatantly Posix-centric and don't build on anything
> > else.
>
> Instead of deleting movemail, we could change 'configure' so that
> '--without-pop' is the default. This wouldn't affect platforms that use GNU
> Mailutils, and would improve security on other platforms' default installation.
Once again, since the main mass of users of this program seems no
longer to dwell on Posix platforms, please do NOT take away the POP3
option by default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-01 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-01 1:19 movemail Richard Stallman
2017-08-01 3:08 ` movemail Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-01 16:18 ` movemail Paul Eggert
2017-08-01 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-08-02 7:35 ` movemail Tim Cross
2017-08-02 8:11 ` movemail Paul Eggert
2017-08-02 17:34 ` movemail Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-03 2:17 ` movemail Paul Eggert
2017-08-03 19:47 ` movemail Richard Stallman
2017-08-07 18:46 ` movemail Nix
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