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Re: [Nmh-workers] bug #23168: post -sasl doesn't honour username in .net
From: |
David Levine |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] bug #23168: post -sasl doesn't honour username in .netrc |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:16:45 -0400 |
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