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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2011-11-23 10:44:26 +0200
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2011-11-23 10:51:11 +0200
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Enable GSASL by default.
* am/gsasl.m4 (MU_CHECK_GSASL): Enable GSASL by default. Other minor fixes. * am/tls.m4 (MU_CHECK_TLS): Rename to MU_CHECK_GNUTLS. Check option arguments. Check for gnutls library version. * configure.ac: Update. * README: Document the change. * NEWS: Document the change.
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-GNU mailutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-11-21
+GNU mailutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-11-23
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of file for copying conditions.
@@ -147,6 +147,15 @@ all available DBM libraries it can use.
** Imap and nntp clients are not yet implemented
+** Link with GSASL by default
+
+GSASL is used by several Mailutils components (notably pop3d
+and imap4d as well as their client counterparts) for authentification.
+Since this version, it is enabled by default if configure detects the
+presense of GNU SASL version 0.2.3 or later.
+
+This can be disabled using the --without-gsasl option.
+
** Experimental features
The C++ and Python bindings are considered experimental and unstable.

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