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diff --git a/config.h.in b/config.h.in
index b9b9ed1..89b10e8 100644
--- a/config.h.in
+++ b/config.h.in
@@ -53,11 +53,25 @@
 /*
  * Define this if you do not want nmh to attach the local hostname
  * to local addresses.  You must also define DUMB.  You probably
- * dont' need this unless you are behind a firewall.
+ * don't need this unless you are behind a firewall.
  */
 /* #define REALLYDUMB  1 */
 
 /*
+ * Starting on January 1, 2000, some MUAs like ELM and Ultrix's DXmail started
+ * generated bad dates ("00" or "100" for the year).  If this #define is active,
+ * we use windowing to correct those dates to what we presume to be the intended
+ * values.  About the only time this could get us into trouble would be if a MUA
+ * was generating a year of "00" in 2001 or later, due to an unrelated bug.  In
+ * this case we would "correct" the year to 2000, which could result in
+ * inaccurate bug reports against the offending MUA.  A much more esoteric case
+ * in which you might not want to #define this would be if you were OCR'ing in
+ * old written correspondence and saving it in email format, and you had dates
+ * of 1899 or earlier.
+ */
+#define FIX_NON_Y2K_COMPLIANT_MUA_DATES 1
+
+/*
  * Directs inc/slocal to extract the envelope sender from "From "
  * line.  If inc/slocal is saving message to folder, then this
  * sender information is then used to create a Return-Path