Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh "post" doesn't read profile, fileproc ignored

[Jeffrey Honig]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 13:23, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:

>> > In nmh 1.3 (and 1.4-RC2), the "post" program doesn't read the
>> > user's profile file.  It is quite deliberate about this, calling
>> > context_foil().  Why?
>> >
>> > The result I see is that post does not obey my fileproc profile
>> > entry, contrary to the documentation in the mh-profile man page.
>> >
>> You're right.  I don't know why it doesn't read the user's
>> profile.  It should be a simple change to the code and the
>> post man page.  Can anyone think of a reason not to fix post?
>>
>
>I've noticed this too.  At one point I was trying to harvest e-mail
>addresses I sent mail to so that I could auto-add them to a spam white-list.
>
>Do we have e-mail archives or SCM data that can help us track this down?

Of course we do!

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I tried that already...

I'm going to peruse here to see if there is some explaination of why it's that way and if the reason is still valid:

 https://sourceforge.net/projects/rand-mh/

Thanks

Jeff

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