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[bug#35512,0/1] gnu: emacs: Add mailutils to inputs for security.

Message ID 20190430214141.4226-1-jessejohngildersleve@zohomail.eu
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wednesday April 30, 2019, 9:41 p.m. UTC 
If mailutils is not present on the system, then emacs will fall back to using
it's own limited version of movemail that retrieves POP3 only from insecure channels..
This link explains some more details:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs/+bug/1814179

wednesday (1):
  gnu: emacs: Add mailutils to inputs.

 gnu/packages/emacs.scm | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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guix--- via Guix-patches via Oct. 12, 2019, 2:46 p.m. UTC | #1 
Wednesday,

wednesday 写道：
> If mailutils is not present on the system, then emacs will fall 
> back to using
> it's own limited version of movemail that retrieves POP3 only 
> from insecure channels..
> This link explains some more details:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs/+bug/1814179

Thank you for the patch and the clear explanation.  Sorry it 
languished for so long.

Pushed as 5ce153b1106fe44a9910d08663b4b9cd2a27b2d6, with the 
comment moved from the commit message to the code.

Kind regards,

T G-R