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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: POP3 password in plaintext?
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:25:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1XZ332-0006KP-6T@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3egut42gh.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:17:50 +0200)

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    Modern pop3 servers support STARTTLS, and Emacs will upgrade to a TLS
    connection whenever the server supports it.  (If you have an Emacs
    compiled with gnutls support, but I would guess that almost all Emacs
    instances has that.)

That is good.

Would it make sense to warn if a POP server does not support STARTTLS?

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-30 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-29 20:49 POP3 password in plaintext? Richard Stallman
2014-09-30  1:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-30 13:31   ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-09-30 19:23   ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01  4:00     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01  5:33       ` David Kastrup
2014-10-01 12:54         ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01 13:15           ` David Kastrup
2014-10-01 17:56         ` David Caldwell
2014-10-01  5:42       ` David Caldwell
2014-10-01 13:22       ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-02  1:58         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-02 17:04           ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-03 10:54             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01 13:48       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-01 14:02         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-01 14:37           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-01 23:29           ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-09-30 14:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-30 19:25   ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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