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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: jwiegley <at> gmail.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 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 17:34:37 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  jwiegley <at> gmail.com,  28597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:09:15 +0200
> 
> 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)

Not building movemail if Mailutils are not installed is too harsh,
because movemail supports methods other than POP3.
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