From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 15:01:07 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Updated send(1) man page to note that sendfrom looks in
X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/commitdiff_plain/a722c223281c71fae98170f31b0b4738b5e67b1d?ds=inline;hp=--cc

Updated send(1) man page to note that sendfrom looks in
Envelope-From and Sender headers as well as the From header.

(cherry picked from commit b347135ed8e4c15c6562d7b3d7924bd9ef7f1589)
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a722c223281c71fae98170f31b0b4738b5e67b1d
diff --git a/man/send.man b/man/send.man
index 15a3f573..e3ea413c 100644
--- a/man/send.man
+++ b/man/send.man
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
-.TH SEND %manext1% "July 5, 2016" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH SEND %manext1% "July 8, 2016" "%nmhversion%"
 .SH NAME
 send \- send a message
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -485,14 +485,14 @@ can be named).
 See
 .IR mh\-alias (5)
 for more information.
-.SS Selection based on From: address:  sendfrom
+.SS Selection based on sender address:  sendfrom
 One or more
 .I sendfrom
 profile components can be used to select a mail server address, mail server
 port, or any other switch that can be supplied to
 .BR post .
-It works by first looking at the address and domain name in the From: header
-line in the message draft.
+It works by first looking at the sender address and domain name in the
+message draft, as described below.
 It then looks for a corresponding profile entry, which contains the
 .B post
 switches.
@@ -502,7 +502,8 @@ To enable, add profile entries of the form:
 .RI sendfrom- "address/domain name" : " post switches"
 .RE
 .PP
-The email address is extracted from the From: header line of the message draft.
+The email address is extracted from the Envelope-From:  header, if not blank,
+the Sender: header, or the From: header line in the message draft.
 Multiple profile entries, with different email addresses or domain names, are
 supported.
 This allows different switches to
@@ -524,7 +525,7 @@ sendfrom-gmail_address@example.com: -saslmech xoauth2
 .PP
 (Indentation indicates a continued line, as supported in MH profiles.)
 The username need not be the same as the sender address, which was extracted
-from the From: header line.
+from the appropriate header line as noted above.
 .PP
 Here are example profile entries that use an nmh credentials file:
 .PP
@@ -592,8 +593,8 @@ man page for login credentials.
 ^Signature:~^To determine the user's mail signature
 ^mailproc:~^Program to post failure notices
 ^postproc:~^Program to post the message
-^sendfrom-address:~^Switches to post for From: address
-^sendfrom-domain:~^Switches to post for From: domain name
+^sendfrom-address:~^Switches to post for sender address
+^sendfrom-domain:~^Switches to post for sender domain name
 .fi
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .IR comp (1),