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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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jwiegley <at> gmail.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 28597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#28597: 26.0.60;
 [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:03:48 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

Does GNU Mailutils not support those same methods? I'm assuming it's
also maintained more than our movemail.

Robert

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