Changed the new "plussed_user" option to mts.conf's "masquerade:" to

[mmh] / man / mh-tailor.man

diff --git a/man/mh-tailor.man b/man/mh-tailor.man
index ff767b0..53c0875 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mh-tailor.man
+++ b/man/mh-tailor.man
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ masquerade:
 .br
 This directive controls three different types of email address masquerading.
 The three possible values, which may be specified in any combination on the
-line, are "draft_from", "mmailid", and "plussed_user".
+line, separated by spaces, are "draft_from", "mmailid", and
+"username_extension".
 
 "mmailid" was the only type of masquerading in the original MH package, and
 apparently stands for "masquerade mail identification".  This type of
@@ -124,16 +125,18 @@ the case, the GECOS field for each user should look like:
 .ti +.5i
 First [Middle] Last <First.Last>
 
-"plussed_user", when specified on the "masquerade:" line, allows a second type
-of username masquerading.  If the user sets the \fB$USERPLUS\fR environment
-variable, its value will be tacked onto the actual login name, following a '+'
-sign.  For instance, if I am dan@company.com, and I set \fB$USERPLUS\fR to
-"www", my mail will appear to come from "dan+www@company.com".  This feature is
-meant to interact with MTA features like the one in sendmail that automatically
-delivers all mail sent to \fIuser\fR+\fIstring\fR to \fIuser\fR.  One can use
-different email addresses in different situations (to aid in automatic mail
-filtering or in determining where spammers got your address) while only actually
-having a single account.
+"username_extension", when specified on the "masquerade:" line, allows a second
+type of username masquerading.  If the user sets the \fB$USERNAME_EXTENSION\fR
+environment variable, its value will be appended to the actual login name.  For
+instance, if I am dan@company.com, and I set \fB$USERNAME_EXTENSION\fR to
+"\-www", my mail will appear to come from "dan\-www@company.com".  This is meant
+to interact with qmail's "user\-extension" feature, where mail sent to
+\fIuser\fR\-\fIstring\fR will be delivered to \fIuser\fR.  Likewise, those using
+versions of sendmail for which "plussed user" processing is active can set
+\fB$USERNAME_EXTENSION\fR to "+\fIstring\fR".  These MTA features are useful
+because they allow one to use different email addresses in different situations
+(to aid in automatic mail filtering or in determining where spammers got one's
+address) while only actually having a single account.
 
 "draft_from" controls the most powerful type of address masquerading.  Normally,
 when a user explicitly specifies a "From:" header in a draft, \fInmh\fR uses it
@@ -144,8 +147,8 @@ address specified in the draft, and there will be no "Sender:" header.  This is
 useful when a 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).  Note that your MTA may still reveal the user's real identity (e.g.
-sendmail's "X-Authentication-Warning:" header).
+match).  Note that the MTA may still reveal the user's real identity (e.g.
+sendmail's "X\-Authentication\-Warning:" header).
 
 .ti -.5i
 maildelivery: %libdir%/maildelivery