Re: [Nmh-workers] More configuration stuff (acconfig.h)

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> REALLYDUMB      - What this does is prevent adrsprintf() from appending a
>                   local hostname if a username doesn't have one.  You know,
>                   I really think this should be a run-time option instead.
>                   Anyone care if I make it so it is?  (The default can
>                   be off to match current behavior).

Shouldn't this be the decision of the message submission agent? For 
instance, the MSA has a much better idea of what the domain part of the 
address should look like.  I'd argue for ripping it out altogether.

> RPATHS          - Construct Return-Path headers from "From " lines.
>                   I say keep it, since it's been around forever (a fair
>                   amount of code, actually).

I'm going to argue for the removal of this code, as well.  The Return-Path 
header should be inserted by the delivering MTA, and I can't think of any 
modern MTA that doesn't.

> BUILTIN_FTP     - This was the only code I didn't add IPv6 code to.  It's
>                   turned on right now, but I have to question how useful it
>                   is (it's built-in ftp support for mhn).  I haven't seen
>                   MIME messages with external-body parts in forever, and
>                   even if we did get any I think this work should be forked
>                   off to an external ftp program or something like curl.
>                   Thoughts?  Actually, I wonder how many MUAs support
>                   MIME external-body anyway (okay, a quick Google shows
>                   that it's non-zero, but I suspect that a lot of it is
>                   done via http rather than ftp anyway).

I still receive (and send) the occasional message with externals.  But the 
internal FTP support should be nuked.  It doesn't handle any of the modern 
FTP extensions (authentication, UTF8, modern file listing).

--lyndon