From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>,
eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 28597@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:07:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ing17akt.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837ewh8x5z.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:14:00 +0300")
At 16:14 +0300 on Friday 2017-09-29, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> >>>>> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
>>
>> > As Glenn noted, the 'configure' message N. mentions came from
>> > an uneasy compromise between worry about the default
>> > lack-of-security in Emacs, and worry about backward
>> > compatibility (see Bug#26102). Although I favor making
>> > --without-pop the default, at this point it's really an issue
>> > for the two maintainers to decide.
>
> I already agreed in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-08/msg00054.html
> to have --without-pop be the default, and Paul already installed
> a patch to do that.
And yet --without-pop does not appear to be the default here on the
emacs-26 branch.
I updated a few minutes ago (commit
61225964edbaa01e49a6e776af00502ab31767b5), and running configure
writes the following to stderr:
configure: WARNING: Your version of Gtk+ will have problems with
closing open displays. This is no problem if you just use
one display, but if you use more than one and close one of them
Emacs may crash.
See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715
configure: WARNING: This configuration installs a 'movemail' program
that retrieves POP3 email via only insecure channels.
To omit insecure POP3, you can use './configure --without-pop'.
> So I'm confused about this discussion: what exactly is the
> problem, and what needs to be done/decided?
The problem is that --without-pop is not the default, or at least
that it appears that it is not the default. The general agreement
seems to be that it should be the default.
N.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-29 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-25 15:11 bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default N. Jackson
2017-09-25 15:21 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-26 9:13 ` Robert Pluim
2017-09-26 15:39 ` Glenn Morris
2017-09-26 17:22 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-26 18:51 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-29 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 14:05 ` Robert Pluim
2017-09-29 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 20:04 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-02 16:29 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-02 18:23 ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-03 8:09 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-03 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-03 15:03 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-03 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-03 22:47 ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-04 7:14 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-16 2:34 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-09-29 16:07 ` N. Jackson [this message]
2017-09-29 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 18:14 ` N. Jackson
2017-09-29 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-02 17:22 ` N. Jackson
2017-10-02 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-02 18:00 ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-02 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-02 23:20 ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-03 2:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-03 14:29 ` N. Jackson
2017-10-03 14:55 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-03 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-02 18:00 ` Paul Eggert
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