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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: POP3 password in plaintext?
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:48:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4mvnzyt4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppecv3pj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:00:56 +0900")

> I liked Ted's suggestion about providing modeline indicators.

I'd much rather just signal an error if a password is sent in the clear.
And then provide some configuration option to indicate when it's OK to
send the password in the clear on this connection.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-01 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-29 20:49 POP3 password in plaintext? Richard Stallman
2014-09-30  1:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-30 13:31   ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-09-30 19:23   ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01  4:00     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01  5:33       ` David Kastrup
2014-10-01 12:54         ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01 13:15           ` David Kastrup
2014-10-01 17:56         ` David Caldwell
2014-10-01  5:42       ` David Caldwell
2014-10-01 13:22       ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-02  1:58         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-02 17:04           ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-03 10:54             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01 13:48       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-10-01 14:02         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-01 14:37           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-01 23:29           ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-09-30 14:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-30 19:25   ` Richard Stallman

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