Re: [Nmh-workers] masquerade settings & spost

[Ken Hornstein]

>i didn't know about user_extension until just now. it's a pretty modern
>feature, as these things go, though it would probably be more generally
>useful if it allowed for substituting the entire username, rather than
>just appending to it. in any case, i suspect it's a new enough feature
>(the man page even references qmail :-) that people are probably still
>using it.

Sigh.  So you want to keep this?  Or do you want to have this instead?

>okay, as long as you're in there -- i'll lobby for an environment
>variable that lets one replace the whole From: line -- it would be used
>in favor of .mh_profile if it exists.

Well, the plan is you would run all drafts through mh-format, and you
could do that with the existing format language today.  So how about
default component formats which got your From line from the enviroment?

--Ken