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

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 11:00:51 -0700

On 10/02/2017 10:22 AM, N. Jackson wrote:
> When a user has an Emacs that's
> configured to use an insecure movemail for POP3, when they issue a
> command in Emacs that invokes it, do they get a warning from
> Emacs?

We discussed options for warning at some length (sorry, don't remember 
where; perhaps Gnus-related?), with the idea of putting a flag in the 
mode line or something like that. I don't recall what happened (if 
anything).