>I've had this in my .mh_profile almost since I started using nmh:
>
> postproc: /usr/libexec/nmh/spost
Wow, how did you ever know to use it?
>I must have had some reason for it once, but I can't recall what that
>would have been now. If I don't have this, I presume post will be used
>instead. It's not clear to me from the post man page what post will
>actually do with the mail it's given. Will post simply do the same thing
>that spost does these days?
Not exactly.
_if_ you have the sendmail mts configured (see mts.conf) then what will
happen is sendmail gets invoked with the following flags:
-bs -oem -om -ov
(The key one here is -bs). That invokes sendmail in the "standalone"
SMTP mode and post then talks SMTP to it. spost runs sendmail -t and
just outputs the draft message to it.
The big difference is you don't need a From: line when doing sendmail -t;
you need one when doing SMTP (either talking to a remote server or via
sendmail -bs). It's not clear to me what the envelope from header is set
to when you're doing sendmail -bs.
--Ken
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