From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: POP3 password in plaintext? Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:25:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412105147 12903 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2014 19:25:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 30 21:25:42 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ33O-0001El-Ea for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:25:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ33O-0001JO-2H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58306) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ334-0001J6-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ333-0000dz-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36743) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ333-0000dt-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:25:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ332-0006KP-6T; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:25:20 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:17:50 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174888 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.