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From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
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Subject: Re: treating OPTIONS
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Thomas-Martin Seck wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Autodetection is not bad as such, but it needs to be overridable and it
> should not be allowed to mess with OPTIONS.

I agree that there should be a way to turn it off, but why should the port
not preselect OPTIONS that activate features that are available on the
current system? I your case you would get LDAP support preselected, but
could simply turn it off?

-Oliver