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.

diff --git a/uip/spost.c b/uip/spost.c
index 1f3b014..206698e 100644 (file)
--- 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 );
        }
     }