From 93fc35afba0a03ff0d25ffbebce670f22d29aa98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eduardo Chappa Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:34:22 -0700 Subject: * Update to documentation about changes to Alpine in version 2.24, sugested by Adam H. Kerman. --- pith/pine.hlp | 19 +++++-------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'pith') 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 ================= @@ -29983,21 +29983,12 @@ This feature is set by default.

FEATURE:

-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.

-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. -

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 "Sender:" or "X-X-Sender" 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 "From:" header on the message. With this feature set, no "Sender:" or "X-X-Sender" header will be generated. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2