Neil W Rickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dan Harkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >"Chris Garrigues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> So clearly it provides for overriding the name, but not for simply adding
> >> an extension. I think adding this functionality to nmh would be useful.
>
> >> I would then also be able to repackage my spam-proof addresses in a way
> >> that I wouldn't be embarrassed to share with others.
>
> >Okay. Well, I'll wait to hear from Neil Rickert about how sacred /
> >widely-used the $USERPLUS variable is, and whether he would mind having to
> >put his own '+' in a $USER_EXTENSION variable.
>
> Sorry for slow replying.
No prob.
> I am copying John Beck, who has experimented with this for exmh.
>
> The uses that I know of for this should be easily modifiable to use
> the support for "From:" that is already in 1.0.3. Thus I don't have
> any particularly strong feelings about it. I want to know what John
> thinks, however.
That was also why I didn't apply your $PLUSUSER patch immediately -- the
same thing could be achieved by supplying one's own "From:". There are
certainly situations where it'd be easier to use an environment variable,
though, so I finally put it in.
> When I started using these changes for nmh, I provided equivalent
> changes for classic MH. But with the security problems, MH users
> should switch to nmh anyway, so I don't see this as a serious
> problem.
>
> Unlike the 1.0.3 changes, I did deliberately use different bits of
> mmailid, so that an adminstrator could selectively enable one option
> or the other (or both). I would like to suggest that this still be
> considered. On systems with a 'chfn' command, it may be a mistake
> to always interpret an '@' in the gecos field as being intended
> for 'nmh' addresses.
Yeah, I guess you missed that in my post that started this thread:
* Renamed the "mmailid:" setting in mts.conf to "masquerade:", and
changed it so that rather than being a boolean, it can be set to
any combination of the three values "draft_from", "mmailid", and
"plussed_user". Thus it is now possible to enable the three types
of masquerading individually.
Like your individual bits, but a "bit" more user-friendly. If we decide to
go to a single environment variable that can handle '+' or '-' extensions,
I'll rename the "plussed_user" value.
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