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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-03-21 21:04:56 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-03-21 21:04:56 +0200
commit650defd4e74ad00dd16e61c1fc5b4f497821c3d2 (patch)
treef6cad7a389c4fc69b0ce35c780b533e873eff12c /INSTALL
parent8a58133ee63c630f5095429065fc3d8446592e4e (diff)
downloademacs-650defd4e74ad00dd16e61c1fc5b4f497821c3d2.tar.gz
Revert "Make --without-pop the default."
This reverts commit 9319de675e395517f9a7b50cae1a3aad9cd0abc2.
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@@ -265,14 +265,17 @@ uses the GNU Mailutils 'movemail' program to retrieve mail. Otherwise
the Emacs build procedure builds and installs an auxiliary 'movemail'
program, a limited and insecure substitute that Emacs can use when
Mailutils is not installed; when this happens, there are several
-configure options such as --with-mail-unlink that provide fine-grained
+configure options such as --without-pop that provide fine-grained
control over Emacs 'movemail' construction.
The Emacs mail reader RMAIL is configured to be able to read mail from
a POP3 server by default. Versions of the POP protocol older than
POP3 are not supported. While POP3 support is typically enabled,
whether Emacs actually uses POP3 is controlled by individual users;
-see the Rmail chapter of the Emacs manual.
+see the Rmail chapter of the Emacs manual. Unless you configure
+--with-mailutils, it is a good idea to configure --without-pop so that
+users are less likely to inadvertently read email via insecure
+channels.
For image support you may have to download, build, and install the
appropriate image support libraries for image types other than XBM and