10 May 2004 18:30
masquerade mmailid and pop
Walter Truitt <walter.truitt <at> alcatel.com>
2004-05-10 16:30:57 GMT
2004-05-10 16:30:57 GMT
After a moderate period away from nmh, I have come back. :) Previously, I have used a different masquerade option to fix my from address. Today, I decided that I prefer not to have custom components and replcomps files. I like that I can put the mail id in the passwd file and set the localhost. This works well (except that sometimes it breaks other mail programs). It works well for sending mail, but when I want to retreive mail, it sort of hacks the username globally. It was originally noticeable when I found I had to set the Maildrop in my mh_profile. Then when I changed to pop, I didn't have a way of setting my pop username to wtruitt and my email address to walter.truitt, except by passing the -user on the inc command-line. When using any wrapper around MH, this is not simple. I was curious if anyone else has similar interests in getting this to work in a new way. My current fix, was to modify the sources to add a popuser line to the mh_profile. I patched inc to use this if it is set, and otherwise call the getusername function. I realize now writing this, that I didn't change anything for the maildrop. I think the mmailid is great for sending, but it isn't something that should be used in other parts of the system. I would be willing to make changes and post them to the list if that is the preferred method. Otherwise, if the maintainer likes to make changes consistent with the design, that is fine. -walter _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list(Continue reading)
When people send me an attachment, I often need to forward it to others.
I have taken to using 'dist' for this purpose, since it happily forwards
the attachment validly, although it drives the recipients nuts, because:
a) They don't know how they got it (although they guess it was me
from past experience 
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