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

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: Re: bug#28597: 26.0.60;
 [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:42:15 +0300

> From: 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
> Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes
> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:03:48 +0200
> 
> > 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?

It does, but I was talking about the case where Mailutils is NOT
installed.  If you don't build movemail in that case, you leave users
unable to fetch mail even if they don't use POP3.
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