GNU bug report logs - #35512
[PATCH 0/1] gnu: emacs: Add mailutils to inputs for security.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: wednesday <jessejohngildersleve <at> zohomail.eu>

Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:43:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: wednesday <jessejohngildersleve <at> zohomail.eu>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Cc: wednesday <jessejohngildersleve <at> zohomail.eu>
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] gnu: emacs: Add mailutils to inputs for security.
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:41:40 +0100

If mailutils is not present on the system, then emacs will fall back to using
it's own limited version of movemail that retrieves POP3 only from insecure channels..
This link explains some more details:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs/+bug/1814179

wednesday (1):
  gnu: emacs: Add mailutils to inputs.

 gnu/packages/emacs.scm | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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2.21.0
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