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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default |
Date: | Mon, 2 Oct 2017 11:00:47 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 |
On 10/02/2017 10:32 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
POP3 is not something movemail will silently use by itself, the user needs to specify a POP3 "url", referencing the server and the user's id (and possibly a password as well) for it to do so. So the user who does that_knows_ they use POP3.
I'm dubious. These days, email clients often use some sort of secure connection by default even if you just ask for POP. For example, Thunderbird's mail account setup defaults to IMAP, but if you specify POP3 it then defaults to autodetecting SSL/TLS or STARTTLS; you must explicitly override the default (or specify a server that does not support encryption) to get an unencrypted connection.
Users accustomed to other email clients are likely to expect that Emacs "pop:whatever" will do something similar.
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