From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:43:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8181bko.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837ewh8x5z.fsf@gnu.org> <87ing17akt.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <834lrl75o6.fsf@gnu.org> <877ewh74oq.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <83mv5d5ngv.fsf@gnu.org> <87fub131om.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <83y3ot1mmi.fsf@gnu.org> <83tvzh1j5n.fsf@gnu.org> <9f1de57c-91a7-11bd-3db6-14e14026da99@cs.ucla.edu> <87efqkz4n7.fsf@moondust.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507045576 14527 195.159.176.226 (3 Oct 2017 15:46:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 15:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 28597@debbugs.gnu.org To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 03 17:46:08 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dzPOW-0002AM-1q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:46:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzPOY-0001mB-Sy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54166) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzPNa-0001EH-61 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzPNW-0002uc-71 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:37888) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzPNW-0002uQ-3v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dzPNV-0006vm-UR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:45:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:45:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 28597 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 28597-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B28597.150704544726544 (code B ref 28597); Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:45:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 28597) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Oct 2017 15:44:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46569 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dzPMd-0006u4-8j for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34524) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dzPMb-0006tU-Ts for 28597@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:44:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzPMS-0002Ky-BK for 28597@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:44:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35152) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzPMN-0002J9-84; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:43:51 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2813 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dzPMM-0003Rw-Nb; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:43:51 -0400 In-reply-to: <87efqkz4n7.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (nljlistbox2@gmail.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:137839 Archived-At: > From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , jwiegley@gmail.com, 28597@debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:29:16 -0400 > > I was thinking of disabling the commands in question in the case > that they will be insecure and prompting along the lines of: > > You have typed abc, invoking disabled command xyz. > > Beware: This command retrieves POP3 email via only insecure > channels. See [reference to relevant documentation] for more > information. > > Do you want to use this command anyway? > > You can now type > y to try it and enable it (no questions if you use it again). > n to cancel--don't try the command, and it remains disabled. > SPC to try the command just this once, but leave it disabled. > ! to try it, and enable all disabled commands for this session only. > > This informs the user but only does so once (if they don't want to > be told again); after that they need not see the warning ever > again. Telling someone something once really cannot be described > as "nagging". I don't see how can we do such a thing, since movemail is a command-line utility written in C, not a Lisp program. People can (and some do) invoke movemail from the shell prompt.