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26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default

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From: nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com (N. Jackson)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jwiegley <at> gmail.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 28597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:14:29 -0400

At 20:53 +0300 on Friday 2017-09-29, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> Do you have Mailutils installed?

No, I don't. (Sadly it is unavailable from the Fedora repositories
and I have never had a reason to build it myself.)

[I have a local IMAP server and I retrieve my mail into it
variously with fetchmail and getmail, so I never use pop in
Emacs.]

> That default is activated only if you do.

I see.

I don't think that makes sense, does it? There's nothing terribly
odd about my system and if the warning message from config is
true, then _by default_ I'm going to get built an insecure Emacs.

I think that --without-pop should be the default. Unconditionally.

N.

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