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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 26102@debbugs.gnu.org, hengaini2055@qq.com
Subject: bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:56:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83efxwyxwm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m37f3o5gba.fsf@stories> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri,  17 Mar 2017 11:49:13 +0100)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:49:13 +0100
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, hengaini2055@qq.com
> 
> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> 
> > As the default Emacs configuration still has a significant security
> > hole, this patch changes 'configure' to warn about the problem if
> > present.
> 
> Is there any reason rmail doesn't just use pop3.el instead of the
> movemail binary when speaking to pop3 servers?

I guess because no one wrote the code to support that.  movemail
supports many different protocols, including /var/mail files etc., so
Rmail needs just rudimentary understanding of the inbox syntax spec to
invoke movemail correctly.  To single out POP3 would need a bit more
code, but nothing too complicated, of course.

Patches welcome.  (For backward compatibility, the old code that uses
movemail for POP3 should still be kept, I think, subject to some user
option.)





  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-17 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-15  1:14 bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server �ž��
2017-03-15 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-15 17:30 ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-15 17:48   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-15 18:15     ` Glenn Morris
2017-03-15 18:20       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-15 20:03         ` Noam Postavsky
2017-03-16  3:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-15 22:48         ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-16 15:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-17  7:23             ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-17  8:58               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-17 10:49               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-03-17 10:56                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-03-16  0:15 ` Glenn Morris
2017-03-16 15:33   ` Eli Zaretskii

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