From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
Cc: 28597@debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:21:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r2uuu7ln.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fubaq0dl.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (N. Jackson's message of "Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:11:18 -0400")
>>>>> "NJ" == N Jackson <nljlistbox2@gmail.com> writes:
NJ> Configure issues the following warning:
NJ> configure: WARNING: This configuration installs a 'movemail' program
NJ> that retrieves POP3 email via only insecure channels.
NJ> To omit insecure POP3, you can use './configure --without-pop'.
NJ> If the warning is true, then --without-pop should be the default, and
NJ> users should have to explicitly request an insecure Emacs with --with-pop.
You are requesting a change in behavior that is exceedingly old, so I would
like to hear from others what they think about making a change like this.
Given how much less of a thing POP is becoming over the years, I'd be in favor
of changing the default here.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 15:21 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 [this message]
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
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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