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bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by def
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:03:48 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, jwiegley@gmail.com,
>> 28597@debbugs.gnu.org, nljlistbox2@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