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

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: jwiegley <at> gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 28597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:09:15 +0200

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Thanks for working on this. However, Eli asked for --with-pop to
> remain the default on native MS-Windows. Also, I found the newly-added
> warnings confusing (though admittedly everything is confusing here
> :-).

You're right, I thought he was talking only about the Mailutils
recommendation, but I misread.

> How about the attached patch instead? It does not change the
> configure-time warnings. It merely changes the default, so that
> --without-pop is now the default on platforms other than native
> MS-Windows.

Eli wanted to avoid silently changing the default, which is why I
worked on creating confusing warnings :-)

I'm not wedded to the form, but I think configure should output
*something* to warn people about the change in behaviour.  Or we go
full radical and disable building our own mailutils on non MS-Windows,
thus simplifying this mess greatly (we'd have to warn a bit more
loudly if GNU Mailutils aren't installed, though)

Robert

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