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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: hengaini2055@qq.com, 26102-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:58:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k27oz3d8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20325304-0669-cc90-1bf4-d063ac69fb1c@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:23:47 -0700)

> Cc: rgm@gnu.org, hengaini2055@qq.com, 26102-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:23:47 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Both patches, as proposed, are too drastic.  I could agree to the
> > second one, provided that the default is changed to build and install
> > our movemail -- this will let distributors decide whether to install
> > it or not, while keeping backward compatibility.  (The NEWS part of
> > your patch should then be changed accordingly.)
> 
> OK, I installed the second patch with modifications along the lines that you 
> suggested, updated the documentation accordingly, and am closing this bug 
> report. The patch that I installed is attached.
> 
> As the default Emacs configuration still has a significant security hole, this 
> patch changes 'configure' to warn about the problem if present. Although many 
> distributors and/or installers will no doubt ignore the warning, at least we can 
> later say in our defense that 'configure' warned them.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-17  8:58 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 [this message]
2017-03-17 10:49               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-03-17 10:56                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-16  0:15 ` Glenn Morris
2017-03-16 15:33   ` Eli Zaretskii

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