Re: [Nmh-workers] bug #23168: post -sasl doesn't honour username in .netrc

[David Levine]

I wrote:

> This old bug is about post ignoring a login name in .netrc:
> 
>   http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?23168
> 
> I had closed it, but I really think that it should be fixed.
> The current behavior is to determine the user using the
> first of:
> 
>   1) -user switch
>   2) local login name
> 
> I'd like to change the behavior to:
> 
>   1) -user switch
>   2) matching host entry with "login" in a .netrc
>   3) interactively request name from user

Done.  The new behavior is optional, enabled with a "credentials"
profile entry.  See mh-profile(5) for syntax.  Also, any valid
filename can be specified in place of $HOME/.netrc.

David