ken wrote: > >it's completely possible that i'm misunderstanding the previous > >consensus, but i sort of thought that after allowing for "a knob in > >mh-profile" (which is satisfied with just the first half of what > >you just suggested), the second 2nd and 3rd bullets in the list you > >referenced would be handled outside the bounds of the message draft. > >after all, if the user edits the draft and removes the pertinent line, > >they MH still needs to provide a From: header. > > That was not my understanding of things. The plan is now if post doesn't > get a From: line, that's an error. See: > > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2012-01/msg00090.html
oops, right. i remember that now. sorry for the noise. paul > > So the question then becomes: "Okay, the user hasn't configured a > Local-Mailbox in .mh_profile - what do we put there instead?" Or > more specifically: "What should the DEFAULT component file put in there?" > > The start of the thread where this was all hashed out is below. > It's rather long, but you can read it if you want to see how the > discussion evolved. > > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2012-01/msg00032.html > > >so there would be no need for new %(myname) and %(myhost) facilities. > >i'd honestly be surprised if many MH installations rely on the GECOS > >field, and its been a long time since my current hostname played any > >part in my email address. > > Well, right now the GECOS field gets put in as your "name" if you > don't supply anything. Actually, check out mmailid ... you might be > surprised as to what's happening there :-) > > --Ken > > _______________________________________________ > Nmh-workers mailing list > Nmh-workers@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers =--------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 38.8 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers