want to change this if you wish your e-mail to appear as if it
originated on the POP server.
- d) "mmailid" is checked to see if nmh should do username
- masquerading. If the value of this field is non-zero, then
- nmh will check if the pw_gecos field in the password file
- has the form
+ d) "mmailid" allows two different types of email address masquerading
+ when it's set to be non-zero. The first type is GECOS-based
+ masquerading. nmh will check if the user's pw_gecos field in the passwd
+ is of the form:
Full Name <fakeusername>
- If the pw_gecos field has this form, then the internal nmh
- routines that find the username and full name of a user will
- return "fakeusername" and "Full Name" respectively. This is
- useful if you wish messages that you send to appear to come
- from the username of your POP account, rather than your username
- on the local machine.
-
- If you compile with POP support, but only want to use it occasionally,
- then you can always use the `-host' and `-user' options to `inc'
- and `msgchk' instead of changing `mts.conf'.
-
- Check the `mh-tailor' man page for a list of all the available
- options for this file.
+ If it is, the internal nmh routines that find the username and full
+ name of that user will return "fakeusername" and "Full Name"
+ respectively. This is useful if you want the messages you send to
+ always appear to come from the name of an MTA alias rather than your
+ actual account name. For instance, many organizations set up
+ "First.Last" sendmail aliases for all users. If this is the case,
+ the GECOS field for each user should look like:
+
+ First [Middle] Last <First.Last>
+
+ The other type of masquerading that mmailid turns on is envelope
+ "From:" masquerading based on draft contents. When a user explicitly
+ specifies a "From:" header in a message, nmh uses it rather than
+ constructing its own. However, the SMTP envelope "From:" and the
+ "Sender:" header are set to the user's real address. Turning on
+ mmailid prevents this latter behavior. This is useful when the user
+ wants to pretend to be sending mail "directly" from a remote POP3
+ account, or when remote mail robots incorrectly use the envelope
+ "From:" in preference to the body "From:" (or refuse to take action
+ when the two don't match).
+
+ If you compile with POP support, but don't want to use it exclusively,
+ you can use the `-host' and `-user' options to `inc' and `msgchk'
+ rather than hardcoding values in `mts.conf'.
+
+ Check the `mh-tailor' man page for a list of all the available options
+ for this file.
6) If you have enabled POP support, make sure that `pop3' (or more
precisely the value of the define POPSERVICE in config.h) is defined
Enable client-side support for pop.
--with-krb4=PREFIX
- Specify the location of Kerberos V4 for KPOP support. You will
- also need to specify the option `--enable-nmh-pop'. After running
- configure, you will probably need to change the POPSERVICE define
- in config.h. See the comments inside config.h for details.
+ Specify the location of Kerberos V4 for KPOP support. You will also need to
+ specify the option `--enable-nmh-pop'. After running configure, you will
+ need to change the POPSERVICE #define in config.h if you want to use KPOP
+ exclusively (rather than being able to switch between KPOP and normal POP3).
+ See the comments inside config.h for details.
--with-hesiod=PREFIX
Specify the location of Hesiod.