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bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:56:25 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:49:13 +0100
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, hengaini2055@qq.com
>
> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
>
> > As the default Emacs configuration still has a significant security
> > hole, this patch changes 'configure' to warn about the problem if
> > present.
>
> Is there any reason rmail doesn't just use pop3.el instead of the
> movemail binary when speaking to pop3 servers?
I guess because no one wrote the code to support that. movemail
supports many different protocols, including /var/mail files etc., so
Rmail needs just rudimentary understanding of the inbox syntax spec to
invoke movemail correctly. To single out POP3 would need a bit more
code, but nothing too complicated, of course.
Patches welcome. (For backward compatibility, the old code that uses
movemail for POP3 should still be kept, I think, subject to some user
option.)
- bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server, (continued)
- bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/15
- bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server, Paul Eggert, 2017/03/15
- bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/16
- bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server, Paul Eggert, 2017/03/17
- bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/17
- bug#26102: movemail can't connect mail server, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2017/03/17
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