From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
rms@gnu.org, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: movemail
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 17:35:12 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=50j_1k8z4pdS3gi4HwbPHtQ+7e2hc77TdCFi3mcskYYeWOw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83shhbyvlw.fsf@gnu.org>
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Do we have any figures on the percentage of users on different platforms
and of those, how many of them actually need this insecure POP3
functionality? I would have thought very few users actually need the
movemail feature, especially on non-POSIX systems. Also, why is an insecure
pop3 process the only solution or is it really the only solution because
nobody has put time into a better secure solution?
On 2 August 2017 at 04:46, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
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regards,
Tim
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Tim Cross
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-02 7:35 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 ` movemail Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-02 7:35 ` Tim Cross [this message]
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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