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diff --git a/man/post.man b/man/post.man
index fe135381..372108fe 100644
--- a/man/post.man
+++ b/man/post.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH POST %manext8% "July 8, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH POST %manext8% "October 17, 2016" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ post \- deliver a message
 .HP 5
 .na
 .B %nmhlibexecdir%/post 
+.RB [ \-help ]
+.RB [ \-version ]
 .RB [ \-alias
 .IR aliasfile ]
 .RB [ \-filter
@@ -32,8 +34,6 @@ post \- deliver a message
 .IR portname/number ]
 .RB [ \-sasl ]
 .RB [ \-nosasl ]
-.RB [ \-saslmaxssf
-.IR ssf ]
 .RB [ \-saslmech
 .IR mechanism ]
 .RB [ \-user
@@ -42,8 +42,6 @@ post \- deliver a message
 .RB [ \-initialtls ]
 .RB [ \-notls ]
 .I file
-.RB [ \-version ]
-.RB [ \-help ]
 .ad
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B Post
@@ -64,8 +62,14 @@ Thus, it is
 .B post
 which parses the various header fields, appends a
 \*(lqDate:\*(rq line, and interacts with the mail transport system.
-.B Post
-will not normally be called directly by the user.
+.B post
+will not normally be called directly by the user,
+but can be replaced by the user with a
+.I postproc
+profile component that will have
+.I file
+as its final argument.
+See the mh-profile(5) man page for more information on postproc.
 .PP
 .B Post
 searches the \*(lqTo:\*(rq, \*(lqcc:\*(rq, \*(lqBcc:\*(rq,
@@ -232,11 +236,10 @@ will attempt to negotiate a security layer for session encryption.
 Encrypted data is labelled with `(sasl-encrypted)' and `(sasl-decrypted)' when
 viewing the SMTP transaction with the
 .B \-snoop
-switch.  The
-.B \-saslmaxssf
-switch can be used to select the maximum value of the Security Strength Factor.
-This is an integer value and the exact meaning of this value depends on the
-underlying SASL mechanism.  A value of 0 disables encryption.
+switch.
+Base64-encoded data is wrapped with `b64<>'.
+(Beware that the SMTP transaction may contain authentication information either
+in plaintext or easily decoded base64.)
 .PP
 If
 .B nmh
@@ -256,6 +259,9 @@ is labelled with `(tls-encrypted)' and
 `(tls-decrypted)' when viewing the SMTP transction with the
 .B \-snoop
 switch.
+Base64-encoded data is wrapped with `b64<>'.
+(Beware that the SMTP transaction may contain authentication information either
+in plaintext or easily decoded base64.)
 The
 .B \-notls
 switch will disable all attempts to negotiate TLS.
@@ -265,6 +271,13 @@ If port 465 is specified and none of the TLS switches were enabled,
 will be implied if TLS support was compiled in.  Though port 465 for
 SMTPS (SMTP over SSL) was deregistered by IANA in 1998, it is still
 used for that service.
+.PP
+.B post
+filters out header lines with names beginning with \*(lqNmh-\*(rq
+(case insensitive) from the message draft.
+Those lines are reserved for internal
+.B nmh
+use.
 .SH FILES
 .fc ^ ~
 .nf