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diff --git a/man/post.man b/man/post.man
index 4d64300c..ba48f866 100644
--- a/man/post.man
+++ b/man/post.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH POST %manext8% "April 14, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH POST %manext8% "October 17, 2016" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ post \- deliver a message
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .HP 5
 .na
-.B %libdir%/post 
+.B %nmhlibexecdir%/post 
+.RB [ \-help ]
+.RB [ \-version ]
 .RB [ \-alias
 .IR aliasfile ]
 .RB [ \-filter
@@ -24,14 +26,14 @@ post \- deliver a message
 .IR columns ]
 .RB [ \-mts
 .IR smtp " | " sendmail/smtp " | " sendmail/pipe ]
+.RB [ \-sendmail
+.IR program ]
 .RB [ \-server
 .IR servername ]
 .RB [ \-port
 .IR portname/number ]
 .RB [ \-sasl ]
 .RB [ \-nosasl ]
-.RB [ \-saslmaxssf
-.IR ssf ]
 .RB [ \-saslmech
 .IR mechanism ]
 .RB [ \-user
@@ -40,11 +42,9 @@ post \- deliver a message
 .RB [ \-initialtls ]
 .RB [ \-notls ]
 .I file
-.RB [ \-version ]
-.RB [ \-help ]
 .ad
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.B Post
+.B post
 is the default program called by
 .B send
 to deliver
@@ -62,10 +62,16 @@ 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
+.B post
 searches the \*(lqTo:\*(rq, \*(lqcc:\*(rq, \*(lqBcc:\*(rq,
 \*(lqFcc:\*(rq, and \*(lqResent\-xxx:\*(rq header lines of the specified
 message for destination addresses, checks these addresses for validity,
@@ -179,11 +185,19 @@ will be instructed to not send any bounces in response to the message.
 Not all mail transport systems support this feature.
 .PP
 The mail transport system default is provided in
-.I %etcdir%/mts.conf
+.I %nmhetcdir%/mts.conf
 but can be overriiden here with the
 .B \-mts
 switch.
 .PP
+If nmh is using as its mail transport system
+.BR sendmail/pipe ,
+the
+.B \-sendmail
+switch can be used to override the default
+.B sendmail
+program.
+.PP
 If nmh is using the SMTP MTA, the
 .B \-server
 and the
@@ -191,7 +205,7 @@ and the
 switches can be used to override the default mail server (defined by the
 .RI servers
 entry in
-.I %etcdir%/mts.conf
+.I %nmhetcdir%/mts.conf
 ).
 .PP
 If
@@ -213,7 +227,7 @@ and the
 .B \-user
 switch can be used to select a authorization userid to provide to SASL
 other than the default.  The credentials profile entry in the
-mh_profile(5) man page describes the ways to supply a username and
+mh\-profile(5) man page describes the ways to supply a username and
 password.
 .PP
 If SASL authentication is successful, 
@@ -222,11 +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
@@ -246,17 +259,33 @@ 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.
+.PP
+If port 465 is specified and none of the TLS switches were enabled,
+.B \-initialtls
+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
-.ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName  'u
-^%etcdir%/mts.conf~^nmh mts configuration file
-^%etcdir%/MailAliases~^global nmh alias file
+.ta \w'%nmhetcdir%/ExtraBigFileName  'u
+^%nmhetcdir%/mts.conf~^nmh mts configuration file
+^%nmhetcdir%/MailAliases~^global nmh alias file
 ^%bindir%/refile~^Program to process Fcc:s
-^%libdir%/mhl~^Program to process Bcc:s
+^%nmhlibexecdir%/mhl~^Program to process Bcc:s
 .fi
 .SH "PROFILE COMPONENTS"
 .B post
@@ -276,7 +305,7 @@ consult the user's
 (RFC 822)
 .SH DEFAULTS
 .nf
-.RB ` \-alias "' defaults to %etcdir%/MailAliases"
+.RB ` \-alias "' defaults to %nmhetcdir%/MailAliases"
 .RB ` \-format '
 .RB ` \-nomime '
 .RB ` \-nomsgid '