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Re: movemail
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: movemail |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 21:46:19 +0300 |
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 09:18:57 -0700
>
> >> Should we delete the movemail program, given these problems with it?
> > No, because non-Posix systems have no choice but use it. Gnu
> > Mailutils are blatantly Posix-centric and don't build on anything
> > else.
>
> Instead of deleting movemail, we could change 'configure' so that
> '--without-pop' is the default. This wouldn't affect platforms that use GNU
> Mailutils, and would improve security on other platforms' default
> installation.
Once again, since the main mass of users of this program seems no
longer to dwell on Posix platforms, please do NOT take away the POP3
option by default.
- Re: movemail, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/01
- Re: movemail,
Eli Zaretskii <=