Subject: Re: bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:53:13 +0300

> From: [email-masked] (N. Jackson)
> Cc: John Wiegley <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:07:14 -0400
> 
> > 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.

Do you have Mailutils installed?  That default is activated only if
you do.