Scott Blachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > * There are now three types of email address masquerading. Rather than
> > having them all be turned on by having "mmailid: 1" in the mts.conf,
> > they can be individually enabled on a "masquerade: draft_from mmailid
> > username_extension" line. draft_from and mmailid were present in
> > 1.0.3, but username_extension is new -- if active, users can set a
> > $USERNAME_EXTENSION environment variable to values like "+usenet" or
> > "-pgp2" to have those values appended to their usernames on the From:
> > line of outgoing mails. This feature is meant to interoperate with the
> > analogous one of MTAs like sendmail and qmail.
>
> A minor nit...I'm assuming that the 3 types of masquerading are
> independent of each other(?). The syntax in the configure script for
> the --with-masquerade option is:
>
> ac_help="$ac_help
> --enable-masquerade[='draft_from[ mmailid[ username_extension]]']
> enable 3 types of email address masquerading [none]"
>
> which (because of where the []'s are) implies that you can specify
> "mmailid" without first specifying "draft_from" and that you can't
> specify "username_extension" without first specifying "mmailid".
>
> In working on updating the FreeBSD port, I ended up passing
>
> --enable-masquerade=username_extention
>
> which should've gotten flagged as invalid. According to the help
> line, I misspelled the option name and I specified it without its
> prerequisites, too. So, I imagine I didn't enable any masquerading?
> Or if an RTFM response is appropriate, feel free...:-))
You're right -- the syntax I specified is bogus. It's not necessary to
specify mmailid before username_extension or draft_from before the latter
two.
I don't see a good compact, non-confusing way to specify the real syntax
rules there, so I guess I'll just print it without the extra []s and leave
the explaining about it being okay to specify a subset to the INSTALL file.
You're right that there's currently no checking that the masquerade options
you specify actually exist, which I agree is poor. I just haven't had a
chance to put in proper parsing yet. This is documented in comments in the
mts.conf handling code, but not elsewhere. I just added a TODO item for it.
So, you're right -- you didn't enable any masquerading.
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