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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/pith/pine.hlp b/pith/pine.hlp
index d1c57b8e..26e5e269 100644
--- a/pith/pine.hlp
+++ b/pith/pine.hlp
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ with help text for the config screen and the composer that didn't have any
reasonable place to be called from.
Dummy change to get revision in pine.hlp
============= h_revision =================
-Alpine Commit 516 2020-11-23 02:05:20
+Alpine Commit 517 2020-11-27 10:32:54
============= h_news =================
<HTML>
<HEAD>
@@ -29983,21 +29983,12 @@ This feature is set by default.
<BODY>
<H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_scramble-message-id"--></H1>
-Normally the Message-ID header that Alpine generates when sending a message
-contains the name of the computer from which the message is being sent.
-Some believe that this hostname could be used by spammers or could
-be used by others for nefarious purposes.
-If this feature is set, that name will be transformed with a simple
-Rot13 transformation.
+If this feature is set, the message-id header value
+will be transformed with a simple Rot13 transformation.
The result will still have the correct syntax for a Message-ID but the
part of the MessageID that is often a domain name will not be an actual
domain name because the letters will be scrambled.
<P>
-In addition, other information such as the name program, version, and
-a code for operating system used to build Alpine, will be encoded using
-the Rot13 transformation, except for the version number which will be
-encoded using a Rot5 transformation.
-<P>
It is possible (but unlikely?) that some spam detection
software will use that as a reason to reject the mail as spam.
It has also been reported that some spam detection software uses the
@@ -30130,8 +30121,8 @@ breaks because the terminal reset resets the color state of the terminal.
This feature affects Alpine's generation of the &quot;Sender:&quot; or
<A HREF="h_config_use_sender_not_x">&quot;X-X-Sender&quot;</A>
header fields.
-By default, Alpine will generate such a header in situations where the
-username or domain are not the same as
+Prior to version 2.24, Alpine generated such a header in situations where the
+username or domain were not the same as
the &quot;From:&quot; header on the message.
With this feature set,
no &quot;Sender:&quot; or &quot;X-X-Sender&quot; header will be generated.