From 66049298f32287c4a411f1931ec4b66b380878a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Harkless <dan@harkless.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:24:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment bemoaning the lack of aliasing on the From:
header and explaining why I wasn't going to bother implementing my new
draft-From:-based email address masquerading right now.
---
uip/spost.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/uip/spost.c b/uip/spost.c
index 1f3b014b..206698ee 100644
--- a/uip/spost.c
+++ b/uip/spost.c
@@ -532,6 +532,18 @@ putfmt (char *name, char *str, FILE *out)
f = mp->m_next; mp->m_next = 0;
putadr( name, f );
} else {
+ /* The author(s) of spost decided that alias substitution wasn't
+ necessary for the non-HTRY headers. Unfortunately, one of those
+ headers is "From:", and having alias substitution work on that is
+ extremely useful for someone with a lot of POP3 email accounts or
+ aliases. post supports aliasing of "From:"...
+
+ Since "From:"-processing is incompletely implemented in this
+ unsupported and undocumented spost backend, I'm not going to take
+ the time to implement my new draft-From:-based email address
+ masquerading. If I do ever implement it here, I'd almost
+ certainly want to implement "From:" line alias processing as
+ well. -- Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net> */
fprintf (out, "%s: %s", name, str );
}
}
--
2.39.5