Ken writes:
# The password for POP service when the -sasl switch is used
# with one of these programs is the login name on the local
# machine.
I've re-read that last paragraph ... and I realize that I do not
understand it.
The description or the semantics? It really did/does use the login
name for the password. I think it's long past time that we remove
that.
Is that ... correct? I am looking at the code and I cannot convince myself
that statement is true. It is entirely possible that it USED to be that way
but I don't think that is true for 1.7.1 (I mean, besides the bug in 1.7.1).
Right, it used to be that way, see end of
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2013-04/msg00014.html
and dates from before nmh's move to git.
Fortunately, it isn't that way any more. It was fixed in commit
90edb255effd0d2 (thanks!). I'll update the man page.
David