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

[mmh] / man / post.man

diff --git a/man/post.man b/man/post.man
index c344043..4526177 100644 (file)
--- a/man/post.man
+++ b/man/post.man
@@ -75,13 +75,13 @@ delivery).
 
 Under normal circumstances, \fIpost\fR constructs the "From:" line of the
 message from the user's login name, the full name from the GECOS field of the
-passwd file, and the fully-qualified name of the local machine (or the value of
+passwd file, and the fully\-qualified name of the local machine (or the value of
 "localname" in mts.conf, if set).  An example is "From: Dan Harkless
 <dan@machine.company.com>".  There are four ways to override these values,
-however.  Note that they apply equally to "Resent-From:" lines in messages sent
+however.  Note that they apply equally to "Resent\-From:" lines in messages sent
 with \fIdist\fR.
 
-The first way is GECOS-based username masquerading.  If the "masquerade:" line
+The first way is GECOS\-based username masquerading.  If the "masquerade:" line
 in mts.conf contains "mmailid", this processing is activated.  If a user's GECOS
 field in the passwd file is of the form "Full Name <fakename>" then "fakename"
 will be used in place of the real username.  For instance, a GECOS field of "Dan
@@ -92,16 +92,18 @@ instance, "Dan.Harkless" to "dan".
 
 The second way to override default construction of "From:" is to set the
 \fB$SIGNATURE\fR environment variable.  This variable overrides the full name
-from the GECOS field, even if GECOS-based masquerading is being done.  This
+from the GECOS field, even if GECOS\-based masquerading is being done.  This
 processing is always active, and does not need to be enabled from mts.conf.
 
-The third way is controlled by the "plussed_user" value of "masquerade:" line of
-mts.conf.  When that's turned on, setting the $USERPLUS environment variable
-will result in its value being tacked onto the user's login name, following 
-a '+' sign.  For instance, if I set $USERPLUS to "www", my "From:" line will
-contain "Dan Harkless <dan+www@machine.company.com>" (or "Dan.Harkless+www" if
-I'm using mmailid masquerading as well).  Recent versions of sendmail
-automatically deliver all mail sent to \fIuser\fR+\fIstring\fR to \fIuser\fR.
+The third way is controlled by the "user_extension" value of "masquerade:" line
+of mts.conf.  When that's turned on, setting the \fB$USERNAME_EXTENSION\fR
+environment variable will result in its value being appended the user's login
+name.  For instance, if I set \fB$USERNAME_EXTENSION\fR to "+www", my "From:"
+line will contain "Dan Harkless <dan+www@machine.company.com>" (or
+"Dan.Harkless+www" if I'm using mmailid masquerading as well).  Recent versions
+of sendmail automatically deliver all mail sent to \fIuser\fR+\fIstring\fR to
+\fIuser\fR.  qmail has a similar feature which uses '\-' as the delimiter by
+default, but can use other characters as well.
 
 The fourth method of address masquerading is to specify a "From:" line manually
 in the message draft.  It will be used as provided (after alias substitution),
@@ -112,7 +114,7 @@ will use the address given in the draft "From:", and there will be no "Sender:"
 header.  This is useful in pretending to send mail "directly" from a remote POP3
 account, or when remote email robots give improper precedence to the envelope
 "From:".  Note that your MTA may still reveal your real identity (e.g.
-sendmail's "X-Authentication-Warning:" header). 
+sendmail's "X\-Authentication\-Warning:" header). 
 
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 ^%etcdir%/mts.conf~^nmh mts configuration file