ken wrote:
Greetings all,
I've been (slowly) working on sorting out the whole From: mess that
was discussed earlier, and of course like many things in nmh there are
a ton of assumptions that makes this a lot harder than it needs to be.
But I digress ...
I came across the code in post that handles the masquerade settings and I've
realized that a) it makes post more complex, and b) I don't think we need
it, especially since we're switching to configuring our userid in
.mh_profile.
To remind everyone, there are currently three settings in mts.conf for
masquerade:
draft_from - if you don't have this then post will use what it thinks is
your "real" from as the Sender: header (and the envelope from
address as well). I guess this was done to prevent undergrads
from easily forging email; I would submit that the days when
you had to know the details of SMTP to forge email are long
over since nearly every email client out allows you to change
the from: header (although I fondly remember that as a rite
of passage in college ... ah, good times). I think that
we should simply remove the flag and always use the From:
header in the draft as the envelope from.
mmailid - Allows you to format your GECOS field so the envelope from
will be taken from the GECOS field.
username_extension - Adds $USERNAME_EXTENSION to the your userid.
Like I said, I don't believe draft_from is relevant in the modern email
world, and if we're going to configuring your userid in .mh_profile I think
that's a better way of accomplishing the last two. I propose to junk it
all.
i agree for draft_from and mmailid.
i didn't know about user_extension until just now. it's a pretty
modern feature, as these things go, though it would probably be more
generally useful if it allowed for substituting the entire username,
rather than just appending to it. in any case, i suspect it's a new
enough feature (the man page even references qmail :-) that people are
probably still using it.
okay, as long as you're in there -- i'll lobby for an environment
variable that lets one replace the whole From: line -- it would be used
in favor of .mh_profile if it exists.
paul
And while we're talking about post .... I always forget about it, but there's
also spost. It opens a pipe to sendmail -t and uses that to submit email.
It's not documented and there's a lot of duplicated code there. I propose
to just get rid of it (because, frankly, I don't want to have to hack on that
code twice). Objections?
--Ken
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