GNU bug report logs - #28597
26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com (N. Jackson)

Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.0.60

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #59 received at 28597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jwiegley <at> gmail.com, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, 28597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop
 by default
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).
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