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Re: RFC: enable support for smtp/pop/imap by default



On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:32:31PM -0500, Will Fiveash wrote:
Stability of the configure interfaces.  In addition, will changing the
defaults increase the likelihood that either configure or the build will
fail because this introduces new default dependencies on code (libs)
that are external to the mutt source directory?

The extra protocols do not require any additional libraries to build.

Your question does point out that it would be prudent to also have the configure script automatically add support for SSL and SASL if they are present, and warn if they are not. Without this, the default would be insecure in terms of eavesdropping.

me

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