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