From 66049298f32287c4a411f1931ec4b66b380878a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Harkless 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 1f3b014..206698e 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 */ fprintf (out, "%s: %s", name, str ); } } -- 1.7.10.4