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Subject: Table of Contents
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 11:29:16 -0800
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01.00 Introduction
01.01 Why should I use MH?
!01.02 What is the current version/status of MH?
!01.03 Where can I get MH?
!01.04 What references exist for MH?
01.05 What other MH software is available?
!01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
01.07 How should I re****t bugs?
01.08 How can I convert from my mailer to MH?
01.09 What is the copyright status of nmh?
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02.00 Building MH
02.01 What machines does MH run on?
02.02 How do I build MH?
02.03 What options should I use?
02.04 What do I need to do to use POP?
02.05 Does MH sup****t IMAP?
02.06 Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc and not slocal?
02.07 How can I build MH on Solaris 2?
02.08 How can I build MH on Linux?
02.09 How can I build MH on IRIX?
02.10 How can I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?
02.11 How do I build MH on HP-UX?
02.12 Can I prevent adding the local hostname to addresses behind
firewalls?
02.13 Is there a patch to fix this or that?
02.14 How can I build MH on OS/2?
02.15 Do any POP/IMAP servers handle MH format?
02.16 How can I build MH on Windows?
!02.17 How can I build MH on a Mac?
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03.00 Scanning & Reading
03.01 What do I do if scan shows the wrong date?
03.02 How would one go about reading Usenet with MH?
03.03 How can I search through multiple folders?
03.04 Why don't MH format commands such as %(friendly) work?
03.05 Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?
03.06 Can I get show not to run "less" so much on MIME messages?
03.07 Why do I get "mhn: don't know how to display content"?
03.08 How can I automatically delete MH backup files?
03.09 Fixing "cannot fopen and lock /var/spool/mail/(user)"
03.10 Can I read my mail with a Web browser?
03.11 How can I run inc automatically with POP?
03.12 Why does inc hang (on Sun)?
03.13 How can I get POP to work?
03.14 How do I persuade mhshow (mhn) not to bring up a new window?
03.15 How do I turn off of all the mhshow (mhn) prompts?
03.16 Why is inc splitting messages improperly?
03.17 Can MH thread messages?
03.18 How can I avoid reading the HTML version of the message?
03.19 How do I view or save attachments?
03.20 How do I view HTML attachments with Netscape?
03.21 Fixing folders: unable to allocate storage for msgstats
03.22 How do I recursively list message attachments?
03.23 Why do folder and flist overlook some of my sub-folders?
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04.00 Filing
04.01 Can I append MH messages to a Unix mailbox format file?
04.02 Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file?
04.03 Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?"
04.04 How can you save News articles into an MH folder?
!04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
04.06 How can I remove duplicate messages?
04.07 How can I remove holes in numbering?
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05.00 Composing & Replying
05.01 Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one?
05.02 How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"?
05.03 How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself?
05.04 How can I include my signature?
05.05 How do I call my editor with arguments?
05.06 How can I digestify messages in a folder for mail to another user?
05.07 How can I change my return address?
05.08 How can I change my From header?
05.09 How can I save a copy of all messages I send?
05.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified?
05.11 Can I post secure/encryped mail?
05.12 How can I send multi-media (MIME) attachments?
05.13 What's the best way to send mail to a long list of people?
05.14 What is the Dcc header?
05.15 How can I make sense of the replcomps file?
05.16 How can I convert quoted-printable to 8bit in quoted text in
replies?
05.17 Can I have aliases include aliases?
05.18 Why doesn't mhmail understand aliases?
05.19 How do I send blind carbon copies?
05.20 When I forward a message, can I use its Subject?
05.21 Why is the timezone field in my 'Date:' field wrong?
05.22 Can I automate the comp -editor mhn process?
05.23 How can I remove those "=20" characters when forwarding?
05.24 Can I use mh-format substitution with forw?
05.25 How can I keep repl from breaking long lines?
05.26 How do I fix a bogus In-Reply-To or missing References field?
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06.00 Posting
06.01 What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed".
06.02 Can I run my message through a program (e.g., ispell) before
sending?
06.03 What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part".
06.04 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers
available"
06.05 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender
already specified"
06.06 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [BHST] no socket opened"
06.07 How do I fix the "X-Authentication-Warning" header?
06.08 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [RPLY] 503 Need MAIL
before RCPT"
06.09 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature
end-of-file on socket"
06.10 Fixing "Sender didn't use the HELO protocol"
06.11 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 553 Local
configuration error, hostname not recognized as local"
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07.00 Mail Filters
07.01 What mail filters are available?
07.02 Why slocal writes messages to system mailbox that from(1) can't
read.
07.03 Where can I read about slocal and the format of .maildelivery?
07.04 How do I debug my .maildelivery file?
07.05 Why isn't slocal working?
07.06 Are there any good biff applications for MH?
07.07 How do I read new messages filed by procmail?
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08.00 MH-E
08.01 I have a question about MH-E
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09.00 Xmh
09.01 How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor?
09.02 Does xmh sup****t subfolders?
09.03 How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh?
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Appendix
Glossary & Acknowledgments
Switching xmh's editor
babyl2mh.pl
inco - babyl to MH converter
t2h - add hyperlinks to message viewed
srvrsmtp.c patch
IRIX config file
HP-UX 10.20 config file
Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)
Removing duplicate messages (Perl)
Removing duplicate messages (Perl)
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Subject: Viewing This Article
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:44:19 -0800
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Check out the Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive (see "What references
exist for nn?"). Files available by ftp, man pages, and other Web
pages, as well as cross-references like the one in this paragraph
are just a click away.
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rather than when they were contributed by the author, as is the case
since November, 1995.
If you should need the Internet address, use nslookup or dig if you
have them, or send mail to <dns at grasp.insa-lyon.fr> with "help"
for a Subject.
References to $MHLIB refer to the directory that contains MH sup****t
files and routines. This directory is usually /usr/lib/mh or
/usr/local/lib/mh (or /usr/local/nmh/lib or /etc/nmh for nmh). Do
not use $MHLIB literally; use the real, absolute path to your MH
library directory.
There are slight differences between the original MH and nmh. In the
text, the nmh command or filename is preferred, and the MH
equivalent is placed in parenthesis. For example, the MH
configuration is in $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor); mhshow (mhn -show)
is used to view attachments.
Note that due to bottom feeding email address harvesting spam s***,
mailto links have been removed and @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
in addresses have been
replaced by "at."
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Subject: 01.00 ***** Introduction *****
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
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Subject: 01.01 Why should I use MH?
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
The MH message handling system is a set of electronic mail programs
in the public domain. If your computer runs Unix, it can probably
run MH.
The big difference between MH and most other "mail user agents" is
that you can use MH from a Unix shell prompt. In MH, each command is
a separate program, and the shell is used as an interpreter. So, all
the power of Unix shells (pipes, redirection, history, aliases, and
so on) works with MH--you don't have to learn a new interface. Other
mail agents have their own command interpreter for their individual
mail commands (although the mush mail agent simulates a Unix shell).
Because MH commands aren't part of a monolithic mail system, you can
use them at any time; you don't have to start or quit the mail
agent. Because you use them from a shell prompt, you can use all the
power of the shell.
If your shell has time-saving aliases or functions (and most do),
you'll be able to use them with MH, of course. And because MH isn't
a monolithic mail agent, you can use MH commands in Unix shell
scripts, or call them from programs in high-level languages like C.
Unlike most mail agents, MH keeps each message in a separate file.
The filename is the message number. To rearrange the messages, MH
just changes the filenames. MH can use standard Unix file system
operations such as removing, copying and linking messages. The
message files are grouped into one or more folders, which are
actually Unix directories.
MH is free, powerful, flexible--and the basics are easy to learn.
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Subject: !01.02 What is the current version/status of MH.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:52 -0700
The current official version of MH is 6.8.3, although a beta of
6.8.4 is available.
This version includes MIME, a multi-media MH package that implements
the new IETF work on Multi-media 822 (MIME). This allows you to
include things like audio, graphics, and the like, in your mail
messages. --Marshall Rose <mrose at dbc.mtview.ca.us>
MH now works with Kerberos as well.
In addition, a new program called mhparam extracts arguments from
.mh_profile which is useful in shell scripts.
Please see the file CHANGES in the distribution for more details.
Due to the langui****ng state of MH, Richard Coleman <coleman at
math.gatech.edu> created another version of MH called nmh based upon
MH 6.8.3. He added GNU autoconf to ease installation considerably
and fixed several bugs and inconsistencies. Doug Morris <doug at
mhost.com. hosted the web site, mailing lists, web pages, and CVS
repository for a long time. Ken Hornstein <kenh at pobox.com> picked
up the torch in 2002 and moved development to Savannah where Jon
Steinhart <nmh at fourwinds.com> joined him as a project maintainer.
See http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/.
The stable version of nmh is 1.2.
The file DIFFERENCES in the nmh distribution contains an
ever-growing list of differences between nmh and MH.
GNU mailutils (version 1.2) is a collection of mail-related
utilities. At the core of mailutils is libmailbox, a library which
provides access to various forms of mailbox files (including remote
mailboxes via popular protocols and MH). See
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/.
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Subject: !01.03 Where can I get MH?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:46 -0700
MH comes standard with:
Berkeley Software Design BSD/386 . . . . MH 6.8.3
Control Data Corp. CDC4680-MP . . . . . . EMH 1.4.2 (modified MH)
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . nmh 1.1-RC4
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . mailutils 1.1
DEC Ultrix 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.5
DEC Ultrix 4.2A.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7.1
DEC OSF/1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7
Evans and Sutherland ES/OS 2.3 . . . . . MH 6.6
FreeBSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.8.4
IBM PS/2 AIX 1.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.4
IBM RISC System/6000 AIX 3.x and 4.x . . MH 6.6
MIPS RISC/OS 4.52 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.6
Red Hat Linux (3.0.3, 4.0 and 4.1) . . . MH 6.8.3
SGI Irix 6.2 Freeware 2.0 CDROM . . . . . MH 6.8.3
Sony NEWS-OS 4.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7.2
Tektronix UTek . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH (Version Unknown)
Download MH:
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/nmh/nmh-1.2.tar.gz
831kB
Download GNU mailutils:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-1.2.tar.gz
3.4MB
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Subject: !01.04 What references exist for MH?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:41 -0700
The Web:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/
http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/
http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/
Books:
MH & xmh: E-mail for Users & Programmers. Third edition. Jerry
Peek, with Bill Wohler and Brent Welch.
ISBN 1-56592-093-7. 738 pages.
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Out of print as of August, 1996.
References to "the MH book" in this do***ent refer to the third
edition (plus updates) of this book online at
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/.
Section numbers for the
second edition may appear in parentheses.
There is another book that contains a number of examples of
advanced mail handing using MH as the example message handler.
It's also quite a good reference on email in general.
The Internet Message. Marshall T. Rose
ISBN 0-13-092941-7. 396 pages.
P T R Prentice Hall
Papers:
MHN Tutorial by Jerry Sweet
ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.ps.Z 141k
ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.tex.Z 48k
Usenet:
comp.mail.mh
gmane.mail.exmh.devel
gmane.mail.exmh.user
gmane.mail.mh-e.announce
gmane.mail.mh-e.devel
gmane.mail.mh-e.user
gmane.mail.nmh.devel
Mailing lists:
There are three mailing lists for nmh: nmh-announce, nmh-workers,
and nmh-commits. See:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=nmh
The page for each list contains a link to the archives.
MH-users archives:
Current archives can be found at:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/
Older archive can be found in the mh-users and mh-workers archives
at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143658&package_id=188462
There are directions in the release notes. Basically, you can use
either "msh" or the individual commands "inc -file" to get the
messages into a folder, and then "scan", "pick", "show", and so on
(or your favorite commands in xmh, MH-E, etc.). --Jerry Peek
<jpeek at jpeek.com>
This do***ent:
http://www.newt.com/faq/mh.html
http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/mail/mh-faq/part1.html
MH-E do***entation:
GNU Emacs 19.29 comes with a version of MH-E that includes online
(Texinfo) do***entation. Try "C-h i m mh-e RET". It is also
available in HTML and PDF formats at
http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/manual/.
See also "What other MH
software is available?" to see where you can get the latest
version of MH-E which includes the do***entation sources.
exmh:
The FAQ is available at http://www.beedub.com/exmh/exmh-faq.html.
The online exmh sections from the MH book can be found at
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/index.html#chTourexmh
Signature and Finger FAQ:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/signature-faq/
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Subject: 01.05 What other MH software is available?
From: Stephen Gildea <gildea at stop.mail-abuse.org>, Bill Wohler <wohler
at newt.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:20:57 -0700
MH-E is the Emacs interface to the MH mail system. It offers all the
functionality of MH, the visual orientation and simplicity of use of
a GUI, and full integration with Emacs and XEmacs, including
thorough configuration and online help.
MH-E allows one to read and process mail very quickly: many commands
are single characters; completion and smart defaults are used for
folder names and aliases. With MH-E you compose outgoing messages in
Emacs. This is a big plus for Emacs users, but even non-Emacs users
have been known to use MH-E after only learning the most basic
cursor motion commands.
Additional features include:
* attractive text rendering with font lock
* composition and display of MIME body parts
* display of images and HTML within the Emacs frame
* folder browsing with speedbar
* threading
* ticking messages
* lightning-fast full-text indexed searches of all of your email
* virtual folders to view ticked and unseen messages, search results
* multiple personalities
* signing and encrypting
* spam filter interaction
* XFace, Face, X-Image-URL header field sup****t with picons
The GNU Emacs distribution includes MH-E.
MH-E is maintained at SourceForge:
http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/
From: Chris Menzel <cmenzel at philebus.tamu.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:02:38 -0600
The terminal-oriented, fast, and powerful mutt mail client not only
sup****ts the MH mail format but also sup****ts .mh_sequences files,
providing a robust interface to MH. It is also amazingly
configurable and is very adept at handling MIME attachments and HTML
mail.
Unlike MH, the displayed message numbers do not necessarily
correspond to the message filenames. This makes threading and
sorting lightning fast but slower to display very large folders.
http://www.mutt.org/
From: Brent Welch <welch at acm.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:42:15 -0800
EXMH is a user interface for the MH mail system written in TCL/TK.
Exmh has MIME sup****t, color feedback in the scan listing, a folder
display with one label per folder, clever scan caching, facesaver
bitmap display; background inc, various inc styles, searching over
folder listing and message body, a dialog-box interface to MH pick,
a simple built-in emacs-like editor, interfaces to other editors,
user preferences, user hacking sup****t. For more info or to obtain
exmh, see:
http://exmh.sourceforge.net/
From: "Eric D. Friedman" <friedman at hydra.acs.uci.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:52:44 -0800
Mhtake is a perl script that lets you add people to your mail
aliases file by typing mhtake [message #].
http://orion.oac.uci.edu/~friedman/mhtake.txt
From: Steinar Bang <sb at metis.no>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:51:08 +0100
Mew (an Emacs interface to MH that has MIME and PGP capabilities) is
found at:
ftp://ftp.aist-nara.ac.jp/pub/elisp/Mew/mew-current.tar.gz
[MH-E has had these capabilities since version 7.0 so mew is
obsolete if you use MH-E. --Ed]
From: James Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
Vmh is designed for people using the bulletin-board features of MH,
where mail is stored in packed (single-file) folders. As a result,
use of this program cannot be mixed with the use of normal MH
commands. Vmh is a part of the official MH distribution.
From: James Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
Xmh is a X11 mouse-based MH browsing tool. It is very powerful and
feature-filled and thus comes with a moderate learning curve. Its
dependence on the X11 environment makes it very reconfigurable, but
only by people well-versed in X applications programming. Its
message reply built-in-editor interface is not always popular among
those used to having MH bring up the editor of their choice.
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
xmh is part of the standard X Window System distribution from the X
Consortium. Ultrix also ****ps dxmail which is similar.
ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/xmh.shar.Z 162k
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <hta at boheme.er.sintef.no>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
Here's a version of xmh that includes MIME.
ftp://aun.uninett.no/pub/mail/mixmh/mixmh-0.3.tar.Z 232k
From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb at thumper.bellcore.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:04:51 -0800
Metamail is a package that can be used to convert virtually ANY
mail-reading program on Unix into a multi-media mail-reading
program. It is an extremely generic implementation of MIME
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), the proposed standard for
multi-media mail formats on the Internet. The implementation is
extremely flexible and extensible, using a "mailcap" file mechanism
for adding sup****t for new data formats when sent through the mail.
At a heterogeneous site where many mail readers are in use, the
mailcap mechanism can be used to extend them all to sup****t new
types of multi-media mail by a single addition to a mailcap file.
The metamail distribution comes complete with a small patch for each
of over a dozen popular mail reading programs, including Berkeley
mail, mh, Elm, Xmh, Xmail, Mailtool, Emacs Rmail, Emacs VM, Andrew,
and others. Note that the MH patches are now integrated into MH 6.8.
ftp://ftp.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist at perl.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:55:24 -0800
Plum is a highly configurable and extensible screen-oriented
front-end for processing MH mail on ASCII terminals. Unlike MH-E,
the extension language used in plum is perl, not LISP. Plum offers
many of the advantages of xmh, but lacks several of xmh's
disadvantages. The look&feel derives more from vi than from emacs.
Key bindings and functions may be changed on the fly to suit the
user's preference. It offers filename and word completion on folder,
variables, and command names.
Until it is included in the standard distribution (under
miscellany), you can find a copy on:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/plum.gz
29k
or mail requests to Tom
From: Jerry Sweet <jsweet at irvine.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
Mhunify is a set of perl scripts and templates that provides
shell-level MH functionality with USENET news. Since MH sup****ts
MIME, MIME-format news articles just work. I've found that being
able to handle news in the same way that I handle email is very
useful, although there are some tradeoffs.
Mhunify also treats MH folders just like news groups. If you
subscribe to several mailing lists, and your email is automatically
delivered to separate folders, say, via procmail or via MMDF's
.maildelivery, the mhunify package lets you progress automatically
through your folders just as you would news groups.
ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhunify.shar.gz
From: Dale Carstensen <dlc at c3file.c3.lanl.gov>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
olmh is a demo for OLIT (Open Look Interface Toolkit, the Open Look
wrapper to Xt) in Sun's Open Windows 3 that does handle 3rd and
subsequent levels of nesting of folders.
Obtain the Open Windows 3 distribution CD/ROM from Sun (SPARC only).
To do this, call 1-800-USA-4SUN and send tone "2" for telemarketing
after it answers. The 4.1.2 CD/ROM may also have Open Windows 3. The
list price for the 4.1.2 CD/ROM is $200.
From: James Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800
Vmail is a curses-based, vi-like message browser which calls on MH
programs to manipulate mail. It can be used on almost any terminal.
It organizes mail folders into index pages, from which a message can
be selected to be shown, replied-to, forwarded, refiled, deleted,
and so on. The vi-like interface and command keystrokes are
comfortable to less-experienced Unix users, and it is a small,
compact program, unlike the MH-E Emacs package.
This version of vmail has been bugfixed and enhanced from the
original vmail published on the net in 1987 by J. Zobel.
ftp://ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.unix/volume12/vmail/part0*.Z 46k
ftp://ftp.ucs.ubc.ca/pub/mh/vmail.[1-3]of3.Z 58k
Or mail requests to James.
From: James Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800
vmailtool may be for you if you have a Sun workstation. It is a
button gadget panel for the above-mentioned vmail program. It brings
vmail into the windows era where people no longer need to memorize
specific command keystrokes. It also provides a mail icon with the
flag that pops up when new mail arrives. Again, this is a compact,
simple tool, unlike the powerful xmh program. Still, it's a welcome
alternative for many people who are running SunView or OpenWindows.
ftp://ftp.ucs.ubc.ca/pub/mh/vmailtool.Z 18k
or mail requests to James.
MMH, My Mail Handler, is a Motif interface for reading and sending
mail. It uses the MH commands to actually handle sending a receiving
messages. It does not sup****t all the capabilities of MH, but offers
a large enough subset to handle the majority of users. Its intended
user is someone between "bumbling email novice" and "sophisticated
user". Hooks are provided to allow the user to customize and add new
commands.
ftp://ftp.eos.ncsu.edu/pub/bill/bill.tar.Z 120k
From: Andrew Waugh <ajw at mel.dit.csiro.au>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
X.500 lookups: If a name is enclosed in square brackets, when
entering a destination address:
To: [Greg Wickham,CSIRO]
a search will be made in the X.500 Directory for the individual's
entry. If an address exists then it will be extracted and placed
into the headers. Mail requests for the software to the author.
From: Barbara Dyker <dyker at teal.csn.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
QueueMH is an email based service request and tracking system based
on the Rand Mail Handler.
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/sysadmin/utilities/queuemh.tar.Z
98k
From: <info at rootgroup.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800
Qmh is an MH-based group mail management tool. Written entirely in
perl, Qmh combines the best aspects of MH with group mail heuristics
and delivers a sensible package for all levels of Unix users. A
limitless number of individual queues and associated groups of
permitted users can be established.
Specific functionality includes the following modes of operation;
checking header dates and sending reminder/deadline mail, editing
existing messages, help screens, creating new messages from scratch
or exiting messages, resolving messages, scanning queue folders, and
annotating with status both by editing and sending mail.
Qmh is a single generic program in and of itself from which all
modes of operation are invoked. Additionally, each separate queue
may be accessed via a link to the single program. All system
configuration is maintained in a single file that is read upon each
invocation of Qmh. Formatting and template files are provided in the
system library, although individual users can override the defaults
simply by creating equivalent files in their own MH mail directory.
Qmh provides a powerful database-like functionality by allowing
limitless per-queue X-Qmh-<$value> headers to be included in
messages. These "fields" then form the context of the queue messages
and provide a user-defined, but yet structured environment for
queries, re****ting, and random information.
Qmh is designed to provide a complete solution for SA groups, help
desks, sup****t organizations, or wherever two or more individuals
are trying to manage multiple mail requests.
Qmh is also compatible with versions of xmh that provide user-level
command buttons. Provided in the Qmh package is a ~/.Xdefaults
template file that's setup to harness the power of Qmh.
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>, Shannon Yeh <yeh at netix.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:23:21 -0800
MacMH and PC/MH:
These were available only for non-commercial degree-granting
institutions from:
Networking & Communication Systems
115 Pine Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4122
Phone: +1 415-723-3909
See also:
ftp://netix.com/pub/pc-mh-info/*
For more PC/MH info, contact:
Netix Communications, Inc.
15375 Barranca Parkway
Building G, Suite 107
Irvine, CA 92718
Phone: +1 714-727-9532
FAX: +1 714-727-3922
Internet: info at netix.com
In addition, you might try Wollongong, to see if they have
something you can get.
[This information appears to be out of date. Please send me
pointers to valid information. Potential sites include
jessica.stanford.edu. --Ed]
Two other potential methods to run MH under Windows: Run Unix
under Windows with VMware (http://www.vmware.com/)
or try to
compile nmh with the Cygwin tools (http://www.cygwin.com/).
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Subject: !01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>, Jos Vos <jos at bull.nl>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:33 -0700
Do***entation in text and PostScript format is found in the
MH-doc.tgz tarball on:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143658&package_id=188464
To generate your own copy for printing, first obtain the MH sources
(see "Where can I get MH?") if you don't already have it. Go into
the "doc" directory and run "make guide" to create the
administrators guide and "make manual" to create a user's manual
which includes tutorials and man pages. If the doc directory is
empty or is missing the Makefile, you'll have to run "mhconfig MH"
in the conf directory so that the do***entation with correct local
information is created.
For properly formatting the do***entation (at least the manual
pages) you might even have to install MH, because a reference to a
tmac.h file in the MH lib directory is made in the manual pages.
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Subject: 01.07 How should I re****t bugs?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:12:42 -0700
Bugs in nmh should be re****ted at:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=nmh
Bugs in MH-E should be re****ted at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=113357&group_id=13357
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Subject: 01.08 How can I convert from my mailer to MH?
From: Mike Sutton <mws115 at llcoolj.dayton.saic.com>
Date: 7 Jul 1995 10:03:50 GMT
The unrmail function will convert rmail format to mbox format.
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
If you use one of a mail agent like 'mail', 'mailx', 'elm' or
'mush', converting to MH is easy. When you run the 'inc' command, it
reads all new messages from the system mailbox into your 'inbox'
folder. Those mail agents also have separate files or "folders" that
hold messages in the same format as the system mailbox. You can read
them with the 'inc -file' command. For example, to read the messages
from your 'mbox' mail file into your MH 'inbox' folder, you'd type:
% cd
% cp mbox mbox.backup
% inc -file mbox
If you see the usual "Incor****ating new mail into inbox..." message
and a scan listing, the messages probably were converted. Read some
or all of them (with the 'show' command) and be sure. The 'inc'
won't remove your mbox unless you use '-truncate'.
From: "Jason R. Mastaler" <jason at Mastaler.COM>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
You can also specify an alternate folder to inc. Here's how you can
convert all your folders en masse:
for arg in `cat flist`; do
echo "converting $arg"
inc +"$arg" -file "$arg" -silent
done
Section D.4 of the MH book's second edition lists two scripts to
convert mail files to MH folders: babyl2mh to convert from rmail's
BABYL format; vmsmail2mh to convert from VMS's mail (see "What
references exist for MH") to see where the book's examples can be
ftped from). These scripts aren't in the third edition but are in
its archive file.
From: Vivek Khera <khera at cs.duke.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
I rewrote the above script in Perl since the original script doesn't
work for some people (see "babyl2mh.pl" below).
From: Juergen Nickelsen <nickel at cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
You can remove the second to last second line ("> $input"), so that
the script doesn't zero out your RMAIL file.
Another alternative is to replace this line with "inc -file $tmpmbox
$folder && > $input", so that the RMAIL is only zeroed if inc
successfully incor****ated the mail. Finally one could add a switch
-z, so that the RMAIL file is only zeroed if the switch is given.
(See "Appendix inco".)
Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800
Use the following to convert a BABYL format file to Unix mail
format.
ftp://inf.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/gnu/emacs_extras/rmailtovm.el.Z
6k
See also MH book second edition (Appendix D).
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Subject: 01.09 What is the copyright status of nmh?
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:16:58 -0700
nmh is distributed under a variant of the classical BSD copyright.
Check the COPYRIGHT file in the nmh distribution for the details.
There are some specific files which were contributed to the original
MH package that are copyrighted by their original author. We have
retained the copyright notices of these authors in these files.
------------------------------
Subject: 02.00 ***** Building MH *****
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
------------------------------
Subject: 02.01 What machines does MH run on?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:22:55 -0700
MH isn't just for Unix any more. Versions are re****ted to run on
OS/2 (see "How can I build MH on OS/2?"), Windows (see "How can I
build MH on Windows?"), and Mac (see "How can I build MH on Mac?").
Oh yeah, the Mac is now Unix. Maybe Windows Longhorn will be built
on Unix too.
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
If you have a computer running Unix, you can probably run MH.
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Subject: 02.02 How do I build MH?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:13:12 -0700
If you're using Linux, you can simply install the nmh or MH package
which is available in most distributions.
If you want to build nmh, follow the directions in the file named
INSTALL. Basically, it's simply "./configure; make; make install."
If you have MH on the other hand, if you carefully read the file
named READ-ME in the root of the source hierarchy, you should not
have any trouble building MH.
If you're having troubles building MH, it could be that the problem
has already been fixed, but hasn't yet gotten into an official
release. Please see http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/
for more
info.
------------------------------
Subject: 02.03 What options should I use?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800
BERK: Do NOT include the BERK option (in versions 6.7 or later)!
BERK breaks the mh-format functions that take apart address lines,
for example mbox, from, and friendly. This would really put a crimp
on my replcomps file.
LOCKF: if you have NFS, you need to lock your mailbox with lockf()
so the lock will be honored by all machines on the local network. If
you have the lockf() system call, include LOCKF.
JQ Johnson <jqj at duff.uoregon.edu> makes the point that one should
use this option carefully since it requires a robust lockf() call.
For example, this option caused serious problems on his SunOS 4.1.1.
He suggested using LOK_BELL instead, and adding "lockstyle: 1" to
$MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor).
ATZ: makes your timezones print like "EST" instead of "-0500". Much
prettier. --Stephen Gildea <gildea at stop.mail-abuse.org>
However, Tony Landells <ahl at technix.oz.au> replies: "Yes; very
pretty. How unfortunate that timezone names are so ambiguous, so
that EST can be interpreted, at a minimum, as (American) Eastern
Standard Time, (Australian) Eastern Standard Time, or (Australian)
Eastern Summer Time (and yes, I think it's dumb having the same
acronym for both normal and Summer time, but that's a different
problem). While the numeric timezones may not look as nice, they
are, at least, reasonably unambiguous. I would urge anyone who ever
intends/hopes/expects to use email outside the U.S. to NOT use ATZ
(sorry Stephen)."
At any rate, the conf/examples directory has been updated and
contains many examples show you which options are required on your
platform and which are optional (in the upcoming version MH 6.8). At
any rate, it is recommended that you examine the options in the
example configuration files, and read about them in READ-ME.
RPATHS: a side-effect is that slocal writes messages to your system
maildrop without the MMDF C-A's that separate messages, so your BSD
tools like from work.
------------------------------
Subject: 02.04 What do I need to do to use POP?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 23:31:01 -0700
MH6.7 (and earlier versions too) include a server for version 3 of POP.
From: Morgan Fletcher <morgan at tupelo.best.com>
Date: 14 Mar 1996 19:24:23 -0800
Ensure that /etc/services contains the following:
pop2 109/tcp postoffice # POP version 2
pop2 109/udp
->pop 110/tcp # POP version 3 (MH's inc thinks it's "pop")
->pop 110/udp
pop3 110/tcp # POP version 3
pop3 110/udp
Also compile with the POP options: POP, DPOP, RPOP, etc.
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: 06 Feb 1997 03:43:17 -0500
To get MH to use the pop3 service, add POPSERVICE=pop3 to your MH
configuration and recompile:
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Subject: 02.05 Does MH sup****t IMAP?
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at MessagingDirect.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 1999 11:33:39 -0600
Run exmh on the laptop, and modify your .mh_profile to inc using
APOP. This is how I run MH-E and it works fine. (I did have to
modify MH-E a wee bit to allow it to prompt for the password. You
would likely have to do something similar with exmh.)
As a spare time project I'm adding enough IMAP sup****t to MH (6.8.3)
to allow you to 'inc -imap [-imapfolder foo]'. If I ever get this
done I'll stick the diffs up somewhere. (It's not a big priority as
I can get at my IMAP INBOX using APOP.)
From: Tim Showalter <tjs at andrew.cmu.edu>, John Prevost <visigoth at
cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:34:56 -0400
We are developing fmh and intend to sup****t as much of MH as is
feasible. However, MH and IMAP don't necessarily agree as to what
things are going to look like. MH has static message numbers until
you pack a folder; IMAP keeps two numbers on a message, one which is
absolutely static and one which is relative to the top of a mailbox.
Messages in IMAP are essentially immutable. IMAP doesn't (currently)
allow message annotations. fmh will keep state with a background
daemon instead of writing it to disk, and will probably try and keep
as little on disk as possible.
fmh doesn't understand MH folders at the moment, and probably won't
for a really long time, if ever. As I said before, we're mostly
interested in the IMAP aspects as we're using a networked file
system and saving stuff on the local disk just isn't an option.
fmh is not MH at a very fundamental level. It is very unlikely that
it will be merged, as we're not quite as interested in creating
something that is MH and IMAP as we are in writing a good IMAP
client. Also, the MH code isn't going to take the introduction of
IMAP without a near complete rewrite.
It is not available yet. Inquiries are welcome at <tjs+fmh at
andrew.cmu.edu>.
From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at rahul.net>
Date: 23 Sep 1996 08:39:52 GMT
What prevents people from doing a telnet to their mail server,
logging in, and firing up MH directly? Site policy? An operating
system that does not let MH compile or run? Overloaded machine with
insufficient processing power for MH? All these are site-specific
problems and the solution lies in solving them locally, not in
forcing MH to go over IMAP.
IMAP was never designed to emulate a filesytem. MH was designed to
make direct advantage of the filesytem structure. There is no
compatibility between the two. By the time IMAP is revised enough to
sup****t MH you will have reinvented NFS.
There *is* scope for redesign here, though. It would be nice to have
a single-user filesystem. Create a binary telnet session to the
filesystem server, log in as yourself, and then over that session
run a filesystem protocol. Normal filesystem protections at the
other end will be sufficient for all permissions checking, so the
filesystem protocol would need to do no other permissions checking.
The question of whom to ex****t directories to would go away: They
are ex****ted to whoever completes a successful login, and accessible
to the user if he would be able to access them on the server as his
login id. You could even use challenge-response for the initial
login, coupled with ssh-based encryption, so you automatically have
a secure filesystem without even trying.
IMAP is too restricted in its scope to be easily modifiable to
emulate such a filesystem. It would have to be a redesign from
scratch.
From: John Romine <jromine at ics.uci.edu>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:45:27 -0700
No. MH only sup****ts retrieving mail using POP3. POP3 is on the
"standards track"--it is now an elective Internet Draft Standard
(see RFC 1939 for more details). At this point, IMAP[23] are
"experimental, limited use" protocols; it is unlikely that MH will
sup****t them.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:45:32 -0700
Since John posted the message above, IMAP has progressed from an
"experiemental, limited use" protocol. While IMAP is not universal,
many vendors now have implementations.
I've found several things which might help. First, a definition
lifted from the Pine FAQ:
What is IMAP?
IMAP stands for "Internet Message Access Protocol". An IMAP client
program on any platform at any location on the Internet can access
email folders on an IMAP server. While the messages appear to be
local, they reside on the server until the client explicitly moves
or deletes them. The IMAP protocol is a superset of POP, containing
all POP commands plus more. For a comparison of IMAP and POP, see
the paper Comparing Two Approaches to Remote Mailbox Access: IMAP
vs. POP (in ftp.cac.wa****ngton.edu:/mail/imap.vs.pop). IMAP is what
allows Pine (or any other IMAP client) to get to email on a central
campus email server. There are current IETF working groups revising
IMAP and readying it to become an Internet standard. A copy of the
latest IMAP draft may be obtained from:
ftp://ftp.cac.wa****ngton.edu/mail/latest-imap-draft
For a list of IMAP clients, see the file imap.software, in the same
directory.
From: David L Miller <dlm at cac.wa****ngton.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
ipop3d from the UW IMAP toolkit can operate in a couple modes. As a
straight POP3 server, it uses the same C-client library as imapd, so
it co-exists comfortably with imapd. It can also operate as a
POP-to-IMAP gateway so that your POP-only clients can access IMAP
services.
ftp://ftp.cac.wa****ngton.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z 1.0M
From: Mark Crispin <MRC at Panda.COM>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
The only answer I can give for [how MH users can use IMAP] is that
Pine can read mailboxes in MH format; and that someone might in the
future develop a version of MH that can use IMAP.
------------------------------
Subject: 02.06 Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc but not slocal?
From: John Romine <jromine at ics.uci.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
If "mailgroup" is set, inc is made set-group-id to this group name.
Some SYS5 systems want this to be set to "mail". Set this if
/usr/spool/mail (or /usr/mail) is not world-writable. These changes
were contributed by Peter Marvit, and "inc" is very careful about
its use of the set-gid privilege.
Note that slocal doesn't know how to deal with this, and will not
work under these systems; just making it set-group-id will open a
security hole (since it doesn't know when to drop the set-gid
privileges). If you're using "mailgroup", you should remove slocal
(and its man page) from your system.
Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent.
(See "What mail filters are available?")
------------------------------
Subject: 02.07 How can I build MH on Solaris 2?
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
nmh builds out of the box on Solaris.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:56:31 -0700
See http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/
for patches you may need.
From: Neil Rickert <rickert at cs.niu.edu>,
Scott K. Hutton <shutton at habanero.ucs.indiana.edu>,
Casper H.S. Dik <casper at fwi.uva.nl>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:57:25 -0700
First, don't use the BSD compatible stuff. Make sure that the Sun or
GNU compiler appear before the BSD compiler in your PATH (e.g.,
/usr/ccs/bin).
Second, don't use GNU make. Make sure that the Sun make appears
before the GNU make in your PATH.
Use conf/examples/solaris2.sun.com and fix the paths, if necessary.
Optionally change the following to use the GNU compiler, to perform
optimization, and to create shared libraries.
cc gcc
ccoptions -O -g -msupersparc
slflags -shared
Fix mhn.c with the diff in
http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/si_value_2.3.
Optionally incor****ate the Content-Length header fix. (See "How can
I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?")
Linking with /usr/ucblib/libucb.so is incompatible with including
<dirent.h>.
When compiling, you can ignore the following warning:
fmtcompile.c, line 238: warning: semantics of "/" change in ANSI C;
use explicit cast
If you're using AFS, you'll have to replace any occurrence of "ln"
with "ln -s" wherever the make dies when it tries to make a link "on
a different file system."
See also ftp://ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.faq.
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 00:00:00 -0800
Unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
From: Gary Strand <strandwg at ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
To cure slocal's Segmentation Fault problems, I decided to try 'cc'
instead of 'gcc' (an alleged no-no under Solaris) and MH built just
fine, and it's working perfectly.
From: "Jason R. Mastaler" <jason at Mastaler.COM>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 17:35:13 -0400
Don't use "ldoptions -s" with gcc. It may cause the compile to fail
with:
gcc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 11
*** Error code 1
From: "Jeffrey T. Eaton" <jeaton at galt.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 15:30:36 GMT
Fixed [DBM_PAGFNO_NOT_AVAILABLE error] by getting the latest gdbm
package, compiling and installing it and the dbm/ndbm compatability
stuff, and moving Sun's broken ndbm.h out of /usr/include.
To fix "../sbr/libmh.so: undefined reference to
`__builtin_va_arg_incr'", add "option __BUILTIN_VA_ARG_INCR" to your
MH configuration.
------------------------------
Subject: 02.08 How can I build MH on Linux?
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
nmh should build out of the box for most Linux systems.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 23:04:53 -0800
The Debian distribution of Linux comes with an MH and nmh packages.
See
http://www.debian.org/.
See also http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/linux/.
From: "James A. Robinson" <jimr at simons-rock.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 96 20:39:02 GMT
Somebody on Debian ****ted it to Linux ELF. Look on
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/binary/mail/mh_6.8.4-13.deb for
the .deb package of MH (it's a compressed tar file). The source is
in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/source/mail/mh_6.8.4-orig.tar.gz
and mh_6.8.4-13.diff.gz.
From: Brian Kirouac <bri at psa.pencom.com>
Date: 18 Apr 96 14:00:20 GMT
If you are running Redhat and have rpm available you can also use
ftp://???/pub/redhat-3.0.3/i386/RedHat/RPMS/mh-6.8.3-5.i386.rpm. The
source code is in
ftp://???/pub/redhat-3.0.3/i386/SRPMS/mh-6.8.3-5.i386.rpm
From: "Brandon S. Allbery" <bsa at kf8nh.wariat.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 16:18:50 -0800
The current patch is the first one listed below. The old patch only
works with libc-4.4, which is no longer used. The current patch is
split into two pieces, as with the previous patch, but now the
divisions are purely functional: the first diff enables MH to
compile, the second allows creation of a shared library. [The paths
are up to date, but I think the info in this paragraph is old. --Ed]
Recent versions of GNU make choke on MH's makefiles. Unfortunately,
the shared library patches depend on "ex****t". If you have problems
building MH, remove the "ex****t" lines from all of the makefiles (if
you applied the shared library patches) and try using BSD pmake
instead.
If you don't want to compile MH, the second file contains
pre-compiled ready-to-run binaries which can simply be extracted in
the root directory.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Mail/readers/mh-6.8.3-diffs.tar.gz
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Mail/readers/mh-6.8.3-bin.tar.gz
The sizes are 650k and 22k respectively.
Note that these files are occasionally "cleaned up" by accident so
please let me know if they are missing.
------------------------------
Subject: 02.09 How can I build MH on IRIX?
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
nmh should build out of the box for Irix.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:33:22 -0700
See http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/sgi/
for patches you may need.
From: Arne K. Frick <frick at info.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: 06 Jun 1995 18:30:01 GMT
There is a file at viz.tamu.edu:/pub/sgi (see FAQ) containing a diff
and sample configuration. If you cannot locate it, I can mail it to
you. Note, however, that I had tremendous difficulties with them
under 5.3:
1. Be sure to use /bin/make, NOT GNU make.
2. patch vomits over the diff. You can get around this by increasing
the
"fuzz factor" to 4.
3. The Makefile target for the shared library doesn't work. I had to do
it
by hand.
But I'm stuck compiling mhn.c.
From: Shankar Unni <shankar at sgi.com>
Date: 9 Jun 1995 01:53:48 GMT
The fix for compiling mhn.c is in
http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/si_value_2.3.
From: Jack Repenning <jackr at informix.com>
Date: 25 Jul 1995 02:35:41 GMT
(See "IRIX config file") below.
------------------------------
Subject: 02.10 How can I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?
From: Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik at Holland.Sun.COM>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:38:30 -0700
Apply http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/content_length
to
your MH distribution and add the configuration option
"CONTENT_LENGTH". It also includes the si_ fix in
http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/si_value_2.3
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Subject: 02.11 How can I build MH on HP-UX?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:50:54 -0700
If you find that your zotnet/tws directory isn't compiling, upgrade
your MH (see "What is the current version/status of MH?") which
includes fixes to lexedit.sed.
See http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/hp/
for for patches you may need.
------------------------------
Subject: 02.12 Can I prevent adding the local hostname to addresses behind
firewalls?
From: Ted Remillard <tedr at hood.sd.com>
Date: 24 Jun 1996 08:53:42 -0700
You can get MH to stop managing the headers and let the email server
to do it. To do this, build MH with the options DUMB and REALLYDUMB.
In the $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file, set the server option to
the IP address of the email server. After this is done, MH sends
email directly to the email server and Local email To: and From:
fields just have the user's simple email address, e.g., <fred>, and
the remote email From: header will contain user@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
e.g.,
<fred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>.
Don't forget to define the REALLYDUMB option in the file
sbr/addrsbr.c described below.
From: Bret Rothenberg <bretr at endeavour.exar.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 12:25:24 -0800 (PST)
Yes, use the "localname" parameter in "$MHLIB/mts.conf" (mtstailor)
to specify the desired hostname.
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Date: 18 Aug 1995 23:51:48 -0400
If you're behind a firewall and sendmail gives you fits because MH
adds the node name or site name to each address in the To: and CC:
fields, you'll need to modify the MH source.
The relevant source has to do with the REALLYDUMB option in
sbr/addrsbr.c. Essentially what you need to do is set it up so
REALLYDUMB is turned on (normally, it's turned off if you have MMDF
or SMTP turned on). This will do what you want. I did this at our
site, and it's been working great. The stuff for REALLYDUMB starts
around line 613.
------------------------------
Subject: 02.13 Is there a patch to fix this or that?
From: Kimmo Suominen <kim at tac.nyc.ny.us>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 13:40:35 -0800
The MH Patch Archive has been opened at
http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/
It is a collection of patches to MH (the RAND MH Message Handling
System), a set of electronic mail programs in the public domain.
Since the last complete release of MH (version 6.8.3) UNIX systems
have evolved making changes in the MH code necessary. Several new
UNIX systems have emerged requiring new configuration templates and
examples. This archive tries to collect all these fixes and
enhancements that in the past have been available only through
word-of-mouth and occasional reposts to newsgroups or mailing lists.
The initial archive layout and the very time consuming collecting
and categorizing of patches has been done by Jerry Peek.
I will be the primary maintainer of the archive. Even though I will
be monitoring several sources for new material (mainly the
comp.mail.mh newsgroup but also the mailing lists <mh-workers at
ics.uci.edu>, <mh-e-users at lists.sourceforge.net> and
<exmh-workers at redhat.com>), I'd like to encourage everyone to
submit patches also directly to the archive at <mh-archive at
gw.com>.
------------------------------
Subject: 02.14 How can I build MH on OS/2?
From: Sanjay Aiyagari <sanjay at sandbox.snetnsa.com>
Date: 21 Nov 1996 19:37:10 GMT
ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/os/os2/network/MH/
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Subject: 02.15 Do any POP/IMAP servers handle MH format?
From: "Carl S. Gutekunst" <csg at eng.sun.com>
Date: 27 May 1997 07:24:34 GMT
The University of Wa****ngton POP3 and IMAP servers can be backended
by a variety of stores, including MH. This is the basis for
Netscape's store, curiously enough. I haven't looked closely at how
Mark Crispin implemented sup****t for the new IMAP4 features when
using an MH backend; it seems like there is a lot of computation
when opening a folder for the first time, writing in the UID fields
and such. But it basically appears to work.
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at MessagingDirect.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 1999 11:36:25 -0600
But [the UW IMAP server] can't delete/expunge from MH folders. (At
least I've never been able to get it to work, and I've tried just
about everything.) #mh in UW imapd isn't something I'd recommend to
any serious MH user.
From: Mark Crispin <mrc at CAC.Wa****ngton.EDU>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:43:25 -0700
> But it can't delete/expunge from MH folders.
That's a very old version. delete/expunge has been in imap-4.x for a
long while. However, there's no sticky flags.
> #mh in UW imapd isn't something I'd recommend to any serious MH user.
The converse is also true. The two don't play ball very well.
From: Dieter Weber <dieter at Compatible.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 2003 04:23:38 -0800
The UW imap server sup****ts MH folders. In order to see the MH
mailboxes, you need to "subscribe" to the folders or add them to the
.mailboxlist file in your home directory.
------------------------------
Subject: 02.16 How can I build MH on Windows?
From: Satyaki Das <satyaki at theforce.stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:57:19 -0700
I have gotten MH-E to work on Windows (under Cygwin) using Earl
Hood's patched nmh. It was really quite simple, but not very
****table. I just needed to add/subtract "c:/cygwin" from a couple of
places. Now it can read and send mail (even does PGP attachments).
Thought this might be of interest to those of you stuck using
Windows at work.
From: Earl Hood <ehood at earlhood.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 20:30:44 GMT
I've made a tar/bz2 bundle available at
<http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/tmp/nmh-1.0.4-ehood-cygwin.tar.bz2>
This includes the patched source with binaries pre-built.
I just remembered that I also had to hack the makefiles to get
things to install since windoze executables have to end with .exe. I
hacked the generated makefiles, so if you rerun configure, you may
lose the hacks. Also, I believe the install will fail when trying to
install the do***entation, so to force things do:
make -i install
The binaries and sup****t files should get installed (under
/usr/local/nmh), but the docs probably won't.
Then you will need to edit /usr/local/nmh/etc/mts.conf to reflect
your local configuration.
If anyone has any problems installing, I could zip up my
/usr/local/nmh since I think it contains everything needed for
runtime usage.
From: Bill Goffe <goffe at oswego.edu>
Date: 25 May 1999 18:13:55 GMT
If you have Windows, consider looking at VMware
http://www.vmware.com/
which provides a virtual machine where you can run Unix and
therefore MH under Windows.
From: Ted Nolan <ted at ags.ga.erg.sri.com>
Date: 24 May 99 17:20:27 GMT
The latest Cygnus Cygwin, GNU tools that run under Windows,
http://www.cygwin.com/
seems to work pretty well and may well be able to build nmh.
------------------------------
Subject: !02.17 How can I build MH on a Mac?
From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el at lisse.na>
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 13:43:19 +0100
nmh compiles on the G4 iBook running Mac OS X 10.3.7 more or less
out of the box with the powerpc HOST option. Use make all install.
Use fink to install the nmh package on Max OS X 10.3.9 (and 10.4.1).
metamail does not work out of the box. However,
metamail-2.7.19-1030.src.rpm (SuSE) which compiles and installs
cleanly.
For exmh, first use fink to install the tcltk package. Then use fink
to install exmh.
------------------------------
Subject: 03.00 ***** Scanning & Reading *****
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
------------------------------
Subject: 03.01 What do I do if scan shows the wrong date?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
Upgrade to MH 6.8 or nmh.
From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo at sr.hp.com>
Date: 19 Jan 2000 23:01:10 -0800
MH 6.8.3 and nmh 1.0 still have a minor buglet where sortm doesn't
always sort messages properly. If a (questionable) mail client sends
messages with 2-digit years, like:
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 09 22:02:01 EST
or sends out buggy dates like (as buggy versions of Elm do):
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 100 22:02:01 EST
then sortm will not sort these messages properly.
I have submitted patches to nmh-workers.
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Subject: 03.02 How would one go about reading Usenet with MH?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 12:32:09 -0800
You can post via mail. Send your article to <mail2news at
news.demon.co.uk> with a legitimate Newsgroups field.
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
You can save articles in the news readers for later perusal with MH.
First, create a symbolic link from your mail directory (e.g.,
usenet) to your news directory (e.g., "ln -s ~/News ~/Mail/usenet").
You can then treat your news directory as a mail folder. Thus, to
select a news group, use "folder +usenet/comp/mail/mh".
To set the default save location correctly in rn, use:
rn -M -/
or in your nn presentation sequence:
news.announce. +$F/$N
comp.mail.mh +
.
.
If there's news spooled on your machine (that is, not via NNTP) then
you can read a newsgroup with commands like:
show first +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh
next
...
You can also use sequences to keep track of what you've read. MH
will automatically set a "cur" sequence in each newsgroup you read
that way. So, to continue reading the newsgroup sometime later,
after you've read some other folder, you can do:
next +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh
and you'll read the next (new) article (if any) in that newsgroup.
Note that this can eventually make your private context file pretty
huge; if there's a group you don't read often, you can remove its
context entries with a command like:
rmf +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh
Don't try that on a folder full of mail (a folder that isn't
read-only), though... in that case, it'll remove all the messages!
I haven't looked into posting. It seems like it shouldn't be hard.
You could set up a "sendproc" that would look at outgoing email
messages. If the message had a Newsgroups: header field, your
sendproc could call inews(1) instead of post(8). I haven't seen much
in the MH manpages or do***entation about sendprocs (though I
haven't looked for a couple of years...). See the "mysend" script in
the MH book section 7.1.4 (13.13), or the URL:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/senove.html#ASAtDm
A threaded news reader like trn or tin is so much nicer, though,
that reading news with MH may not be worth the hassle.
See also MH book section 9.9 (8.7), or the URL:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/shafol.html
From: Stephen Gildea <gildea at stop.mail-abuse.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
Although news readers are better, if one really wants to use MH, bbc
will do the job. For example, "bbc comp.mail.mh" reads this
newsgroup. To enable bbc, you have to specify "bboards" when you
build MH.
From: Kimmo Suominen <kim at tac.nyc.ny.us>
Date: 15 Aug 1996 18:18:10 GMT
Sendmail v8 comes with MAILER(pop) which was written for the MH
spop. Since I use bboards with NNTP, I never looked at the bboards
setup.
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
See mhunify in (see also "What other MH software is available?").
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Subject: 03.03 How can I search through multiple folders?
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800
Recurse through the folders (in csh and sh):
% foreach f (`folders -f`) $ for f in `folders -f`
? pick [switches] +$f > pick [switches] +$f
? end > done
Or create a folder that contains links to all messages (in csh and sh):
% foreach f (`folders -f | grep -v -x ln`)
? refile -src +$f -link all +ln
? end
$ for f in `folders -f | grep -v -x ln`
> do refile -src +$f -link all +ln
> done
and in the future, refile messages with "refile +folder +ln". To
find something, use:
% pick [switches] +ln
See MH book sections 8.2.9 (7.2.9), 8.9.3 (7.8.3), or the URLs:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/finpic.html#SeMTOnFo
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/usilin.html#AFoFuoLi
------------------------------
Subject: 03.04 Why don't MH format commands such as %(friendly) work?
From: Anthony Baxter <anthony at aaii.oz.au>
Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800
The BERK option disables address parsing and therefore functions
such as %(friendly). Recompile MH without the BERK option.
------------------------------
Subject: 03.05 Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
It's not the fault of the "show" command or of MH in general. It's
your system's configuration. Check the $MHLIB/mhn.defaults
(mhn_defaults) file; if it doesn't have defaults for all content
types, add them. Or, if you can't (or shouldn't) change mhn.defaults
(mhn_defaults), you can put default entries in your MH profile file
for those content types.
Here's the part of the mhshow(1) (mhn(1)) manpage that explains how
content types are handled. The example is for mhshow, but if you're
using mhn, you'd replace mhshow with mhn:
First, mhshow will look for an entry of the form:
mhshow-show-<type>/<subtype>
to determine the command to use to display the content. If this
isn't found, mhshow will look for an entry of the form:
mhshow-show-<type>
to determine the display command. If this isn't found, mhshow has
two default values:
mhshow-show-text/plain: %pmoreproc '%F'
mhshow-show-message/rfc822: %pshow -file '%F'
If neither apply, mhshow will check to see if the message has a
application/octet-stream content with parameter "type=tar". If so,
mhshow will use an appropriate command. If not, mhshow will
complain.
So, add defaults that cover the types MH doesn't handle right now
(or doesn't handle the way you want it to). Your defaults will
override corresponding defaults in the $MHLIB/mhn.defaults
(mhn_defaults) file. For example, if you don't have an HTML
editor/browser on your system, you could tell MH to use the "less"
paginator for HTML message parts:
mhshow-show-text/x-html: less %F
You can put that line in your MH profile.
You can even set different defaults for different terminal types
(say, your VT100 at home and your X setup at work). Make a file in
the same format as mhn.defaults (mhn_defaults); store its pathname
in the MHSHOW (MHN) environment variable. Add a test to your shell
setup file (.bash_profile, .profile, .login) that tests the value of
the TERM variable -- and, if you have an mhshow (mhn) setup file for
that terminal type, store its pathname in the MHSHOW (MHN) variable.
See also MH book sections 6.2.3, 9.4.4, 9.4.5, or the URLs:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/remime.html#HomhShMe
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/confmhn.html#ShComhsh
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/confmhn.html#DiOChSmc
From: Michael K. Neylon <mneylon at engin.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
If you are not using the X Window System, you may have to add this
line to your MH profile:
mhshow-charset-iso-8859-1: /bin/sh -c '%s' # nmh
mhn-charset-iso-8859-1: /bin/sh -c '%s' # MH
------------------------------
Subject: 03.06 Can I get show not to run "less" so much on MIME messages?
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
On nmh, you can do this just by "show -nocheckmime". This will
disable the detection of MIME messages.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
If you say, "show all," and one of the messages was a MIME message,
your pager will be run several times on each message, rather than
once on all the messages as a whole. If you find this annoying, set
the environment variable NOMHNPROC:
% setenv NOMHNPROC "" # csh
$ NOMHNPROC= # sh and bash
$ ex****t NOMHNPROC
See also MH book sections 6.2.3, 6.2.10, or the URLs:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/remime.html#HomhShMe
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/remime.html#Alttomhn
------------------------------
Subject: 03.07 Why do I get "mhn: don't know how to display content"?
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
This has already been fixed in nmh.
From: Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:49:50 -0700
MH 6.8.3 has a bug where it will not handle multipart/foo correctly
if it doesn't know about foo. The patch:
http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/all/mhn_multipart
tells it to treat such things as if they were multipart/mixed.
(See also "Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?").
------------------------------
Subject: 03.08 How can I automatically delete MH backup files?
From: mccammaa at expt05.stp.xfi.bp.com (Andy McCammont)
Date: 22 May 1995 06:27:36 -0400
On System V system, add this to your crontab. If you don't have one,
put this in a file, and run "crontab file". If your system does not
sup****t personal crontab files, get your system administrator to add
an equivalent line to the system crontab file or daily clean-up
script. Note that some administrators set the prefix character to
'#'.
# Remove old MH files
5 5 * * * find /PATH/TO/HOME/Mail -name ",*" -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
------------------------------
Subject: 03.09 Fixing "cannot fopen and lock /var/spool/mail/(user)"
From: Patrick.Wambacq at esat.kuleuven.ac.be
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 15:00:16 +0200
One should put the following lines in the $MHLIB/mts.conf
(mtstailor) file:
lockldir:
lockstyle: 1
This prevents MH from using kernel level locking, and uses lock
files instead. It solved the problem for me on two different
architectures. When the lockldir entry is left empty as above, the
lock file is put in the same directory as the file to be locked. If
another directory is wanted, its name should be put here.
From: alhy at MAILBOX.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:01:16 -0700
Often, this is caused by an NFS file lock. Don't ask me how it got
there in the first place. To remove the file lock, do the following:
# cd /var/spool/mail
# cp user /tmp/user.tmp; rm user # save mail; remove locked file
# chown user /tmp/user.tmp # allow user to inc old mail
# su - user
user% inc -file user.tmp # incor****ate user's old mail
Any mail that you receive in the fraction of a second that the
second set of commands takes will be lost.
(See also "Why does inc hang (on Sun)?")
------------------------------
Subject: 03.10 Can I read my mail with a Web browser?
From: Jerry Heyman <jerry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:41:03 -0400
See http://www.squirrelmail.org/
SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4.
It includes built-in pure PHP sup****t for the IMAP and SMTP
protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no
JavaScript required) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It
has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and
install. SquirrelMail has all the functionality you would want
from an email client, including strong MIME sup****t, address
books, and folder manipulation.
No MH sup****t. Unless you're willing to write it...
From: J C Lawrence <claw at kanga.nu>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:54:15 -0500
UW-imap can read MH folders although it doesn't maintain sequence
files properly. Drop any of the IMAP web front ends in front of
that.
From: aeriksson at fastmail.fm
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:36:52 +0100
Have a peek at http://wmh.sf.net/.
It's been a while since I worked
on it, but it does give me what I need.
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 11:02:52 -0500
From: Kent Landfield <kent at nfr.net>
Hypermail now sup****ts MIME and alternate mailbox formats and sorts
by author, date, and thread and can be read by a WWW reader.
http://www.landfield.com/hypermail/
From: "Patrick A. Coronato" <coronato at me216.teb.allied.com>
Date: 8 Sep 1995 16:36:03 GMT
MHonArc, by Earl Hood from Convex, will read MH mailboxes as well as
Unix mailboxes, create HTML "archives" and will also sort by date,
thread and author and has sup****t for MIME. Also, MHonArc is written
in the Perl language. (You should go to this site if nothing more
than to see the cool logo!)
http://www.mhonarc.org/
------------------------------
Subject: 03.11 How can I run inc automatically with POP?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:23:51 -0800
If MH has been compiled with RPOP, then the POP server host either
needs to have your host in /etc/hosts.equiv or in your .rhosts file.
Then add to your MH profile:
inc: -host cuckoo
given that "cuckoo" is the name of the your POP server.
From: Andy Norman <ange at hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
Assuming your POP server is called cuckoo, add an entry to your MH
profile for 'inc' like so:
inc: -noaudit -norpop -noapop -host cuckoo
Add the following to ~/.netrc and ensure it is readable only by you
(e.g., chmod 600 .netrc):
machine cuckoo.domain.name login joeuser password secret
Replace the hostname, login and password with your own, of course.
The hostname probably has to be fully qualified (i.e., include the
full domain name). This example assumes that you can send mail by
other means (e.g., with SMTP).
------------------------------
Subject: 03.12 Why does inc hang (on Sun)?
From: ericding at mit.edu (Eric J. Ding)
Date: 30 Apr 1996 00:22:01 -0400
This may be due to a non-robust implementation of lockf() over NFS.
Try setting lockstyle to 1 in the $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file
so that MH uses dotfile locking rather than FLOCK or LOCKF.
------------------------------
Subject: 03.13 How can I get POP to work?
From: Jonathan George <jmg at hpopd.pwd.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:23:16 GMT
If you get the error:
inc: -ERR Unknown command: "rpop"
you're trying to use "rpop" as the mechanism to authenticate the
user. This mechanism is specified in RFC 1225 and then removed by
RFC 1460.
Your POP server is (rightly) rejecting this.
The POP specification (RFC 1939) states that authentication is done
either via a USER/PASS pair or via the APOP command.
Try running inc with -noapop -norpop flags.
------------------------------
Subject: 03.14 How do I persuade mhshow (mhn) not to bring up a new
window?
From: Joel Reicher <joel at panacea.null.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:49:04 +1100
I personally think [the solution below] is not the right solution.
There's a reason that new window is opened--to ensure the correct
characters are available. The "right" solution is surely to set the
MM_CHARSET env var to iso-8859-1 and make the appropriate
adjustments to the pager (in the case of less, setting
LESSCHARSET=latin1).
From: Larry Daffner <ldaffner at convex.com>
Date: 27 Mar 1996 16:53:39 -0600
Add one of the following to your .mh_profile:
mhshow-charset-iso-8859-1: %s # nmh
mhn-charset-iso-8859-1: %s # MH
------------------------------
Subject: 03.15 How do I turn off of all the mhshow (mhn) prompts?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:33:10 -0800
In nmh, use mhshow -nopause.
From: Larry Daffner <ldaffner at convex.com>
Date: 27 Mar 1996 16:53:39 -0600
The "part xxx" message is controlled by the -list switch to mhn so
add "mhn: -nolist" to your .mh_profile. To remove the pause, add an
entry for "mhn-show-text/plain: more '%F'" to override the default
which includes the "%p" escape. All of this is covered in the mhn
man page (sort of--you need to add 2+2). It's a bit long, but well
worth reading.
------------------------------
Subject: 03.16 Why is inc splitting messages improperly?
From: Mayank Choudhary <micky at eng.sun.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:39:29 -0700
MH considers "From " lines as message separators, so if this string
is found within the body, inc splits the message.
Add the following line to your .forward
"|/usr/bin/mailcompat <user-name>"
where user-name is your login-id.
See mailcompat(1) for more information.
------------------------------
Subject: 03.17 Can MH thread messages?
From: "John W. Coomes" <jcoomes at delirius.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 1997 13:02:10 -0500
Sort of. You can resort your folders by Subject with:
sortm -textfield subject
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Subject: 03.18 How can I avoid reading the HTML version of the message?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at gbr.newt.com>
Date: 23 Jun 2000 10:19:34 -0700
You might find that you have two versions of the same message within
the message. For example, one part might have a content type of
text/plain and the other might be text/html.
You may find that mhshow (mhn -show) wants to show the HTML version
This is a feature of the multipart/alternative content type. If you
prefer reading the the plain text version over the HTML version,
you'd have to remove the line in $MHLIB/mhn.defaults or
~/.mh_profile that starts with mhshow-show-text/html
(mhn-show-text/html). Of course, the tradeoff is that you'd never be
able to view text/html at all, but you probably wouldn't care.
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Subject: 03.19 How do I view or save attachments?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at gbr.newt.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:12:15 -0800
Use mhshow (mhn -show) and mhstore (mhn -store) respectively. See
the man pages for more details.
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Subject: 03.20 How do I view HTML attachments with Netscape?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at gbr.newt.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:58:05 -0800
Add one of the following to ~/.mh_profile:
mhshow-show-text/html: %lnetscape -remote 'openURL(file:%f,
new-window)'
mhn-show-text/html: %lnetscape -remote 'openURL(file:%f, new-window)'
The % escapes are described in the mhshow (mhn) man page. The ",
new-window" argument in the netscape invocation is optional, but
handy. After reading the message, you can dismiss the window with
M-w and go back to reading mail.
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Subject: 03.21 Fixing folders: unable to allocate storage for msgstats
From: Pete Phillips <pete at smtl.co.uk>
Date: 30 Jan 2003 03:33:57 -0800
I found the following in my context file:
atr-cur-/tmp: 1
atr-pseq-/tmp: 1
For some reason folders doesn't like this. Whether it's because of
permission problems or just the size of my tmp directory (about 3/4
of a GB) I don't know, but removing these lines from my context file
fixed the problem.
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Subject: 03.22 How do I recursively list message attachments?
From: Joel Reicher <joel at panacea.null.org>
Date: 31 Oct 2001 00:36:14 +1100
I haven't quite managed a recursive listing, but I have worked out a
recursive store, which is still useful. Hinted by a builtin display
string for mhshow, I found the following works for mhstore:
mhstore-store-message/rfc822: | mhstore -file -
With that, mhstore will happily recurse down storing everything on
its way. Not very discriminate, but the line can be altered to limit
without destroying the recursion:
mhstore-store-message/rfc822: | mhstore -auto -type message/rfc822
-type image/jpeg -file -
which also names the files automatically for good measure.
And, FWIW, I engage this by putting it in a separate file and
invoking mhstore like
env MHSTORE=mhn.rec mhstore
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Subject: 03.23 Why do folder and flist overlook some of my sub-folders?
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:14:24 -0700
There was a bug in these commands which caused them to quit
searching a folder for sub-folders too early if the folder contained
sub-folders which were symbolic links. This has been improved in
nmh-0.25, but folder and flist will still not recurse into folders
that contain only symbolic links.
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Subject: 04.00 ***** Filing *****
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
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Subject: 04.01 Can I append MH messages to a Unix mailbox format file?
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
In nmh, use packf instead.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
Yes, see $MHLIB/packmbox.
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Subject: 04.02 Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format
file?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
To convert your MH folders to BABYL folders, first run the following
script on your Mail directory.
#!/bin/sh
for f in Mail/*; do
if [ -d $f ]; then
touch msgbox
folder=`basename $f`
echo -n packing $folder ...
packf +$folder
echo done
mv msgbox Mail-rmail/$folder
fi
done
This assumes you don't have nested folders. Your rmail folders will
be left in $HOME/Mail-rmail in MMDF format which rmail can read.
Then run rmail-input for each folder, which converts each folder
into BABYL format.
Be sure not to append any messages before they are converted from
MMDF to BABYL, since there may be really strange results.
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Subject: 04.03 Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?"
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
This bug has been fixed in nmh (as of version 0.20). There are no
limitations on the length of an entry in the .mh_sequences file.
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
There is a line length limit in this file. When sequences are
unbroken (without gaps in numbering), that makes short entries in
the .mh_sequences file, like this:
inftex: 72-8000
But when there are lots of numbering gaps, the entry gets long:
inftex: 76 79-81 87 95-96 105 109 120 124 135 141 158 163...
That's when you run into problems, and why it's good to keep the
folder packed when you can. Simply run "folder -pack +folder".
If you're refiling a lot of messages in a large folder, you might
not be able to use sequences. Use backquotes to give the message
numbers directly to "refile". For example:
refile +tex/info-tex `pick -to info-tex`
That can still generate a long list of arguments to the "refile"
command, and some Unixes can't handle that. In that case, use
xargs(1):
pick -to info-tex | xargs refile +tex/info-tex
If worse comes to worst, fire up a Bourne shell and use a "while"
loop:
pick -to info-tex | fmt | while read nums; do
refile +tex/info-tex $nums
done
The fmt(1) command breaks long lines into manageable chunks of 72
characters or so, splitting arguments at whitespace. When you
redirect the input of a while loop, a "read" command will read the
incoming text and store it in a shell variable line by line. This is
a quick-&-dirty way to write xargs(1) if you don't have it.
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Subject: 04.04 How can you save News articles into an MH folder?
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
If your newsreader handles backquotes on its command line, you can
use the mhpath command. For instance, if your "save" command is "s":
s `mhpath new +somefolder`
Or if your newsreader lets you define your own commands, as in shell
aliases, you could define that as a command.
If your newsreader can pipe an article to the standard input of a
program, use the "rcvstore" command (in the MH library). For
instance, if your "pipe" command is "|":
| $MHLIB/rcvstore +somefolder
Of course, you can also put that in a little shell script.
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Subject: !04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:35:53 -0700
For those of lesser means, I have three shell scripts for archiving,
seeking, and extracting MH messages that I had been using for a
couple of decades. Send mail if interested.
However, now that disk space is cheap and one can index years worth
of mail in a minute or two, I haven't run those scripts in a few
years. I intend to update them to index and archive a years-worth of
mail at some point.
Since glimpse is no longer free (as in speech), I've switched to
swish++. Other indexing tools (which are also compatible with MH-E)
include mairix and namazu.
From: glimpse at cs.arizona.edu
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:26:24 -0800
Glimpse is a very powerful indexing and query system that allows you
to search through all your files very quickly. It can be used by
individuals for their personal file systems as well as by
organizations for large data collections.
http://www.webglimpse.org/
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Subject: 04.06 How can I remove duplicate messages?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:04:57 -0700
Don't let them get in there in the first place. Add the following to
your .promailrc:
:0
* ? formail -D 16384 $PM_CACHE/msgid
/dev/null
If it's too late, you might be interested in mhfinddup, attached
below, which is an embellishment of the Perl script in (see
"Removing duplicate messages (Perl)").
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: 20 Nov 1995 18:51:24 GMT
The easiest way I know of is to sort the folder by the Message-ID
field using the sortm(1) command.
After the sort, each message should be next to its duplicates in the
folder. Use a script (shell, Perl, etc.) to weed out the duplicates.
(See "Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)").
The Perl script in (see "Removing duplicate messages (Perl)") does
not require that you first sort the folder.
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Subject: 04.07 How can I remove holes in numbering?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
folder -pack
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Subject: 05.00 ***** Composing & Replying *****
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
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Subject: 05.01 Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has
one?
From: Larry McVoy <lm at slovax.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
I carefully reconfigured and rebuilt MH from scratch and the problem
went away.
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Subject: 05.02 How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"?
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
In nmh, to include a message in a reply with a leading ">", just use
"repl -format".
From: Alan Thew <qq11 at liv.ac.uk>, Mike Schwager <schwager at
cs.uiuc.edu>,
James T Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
When making a reply, specify a filter file on the command line:
repl -filter repl.format
This filter file must be in your MH mail directory (usually "Mail",
in your home directory). Here are a couple of example repl.format
files:
overflowtext="",overflowoffset=0
message-id:nocomponent,formatfield=\
"In message %{text}, you wrote:"
body:component="> ",overflowtext="> ",overflowoffset=0
or
overflowtext="",overflowoffset=0
date:component="Your message dated",formatfield=\
"%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(pretty{text})%>"
body:component="> ",overflowtext="> ",overflowoffset=0
Setting overflowoffset to 0 keeps MH from doing anything to
extra-long lines in the headers. In the body, however, this behavior
is overridden so that long lines are automatically broken and a ">"
is inserted before every line. You could put almost whatever you
want between those quotes, although the "standard" ">" makes it
easier to read notes that have been included several times. The
examples differ with the descriptive text that is inserted before
the included body.
It is suggested not to use the "prompter" editor in this case, since
it is likely that you'll not want to use all of the included
message. Indeed, it is proper etiquette to edit out all unnecessary
include verbiage so readers don't have to wade through the morass to
read your pearls of wisdom.
WARNING: the '>' appears on the first line ONLY in versions prior to
6.7.2. Upgrade to MH 6.8.
See also MH book sections 7.8.4 (6.7.4), 7.8.5 (6.7.5), 10.4.1
(9.4.1), or the URLs:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/reprep-2.html#ReaEdi
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/reprep-2.html#Inc
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/verrep.html#IncRep
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Subject: 05.03 How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
Add these two lines to your MH profile file:
Alternate-Mailboxes: user@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
user@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
repl: -nocc me
The Alternate-Mailboxes also tells scan which messages are really
from you so that it can place the recipient in the scan line instead
of the sender.
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
To get one copy, you can either:
- Take out the "-nocc me"... then you'll get exactly one copy of
your replies (assuming all your addresses are listed in
Alternate-Mailboxes), or
- (See also "How can I save a copy of all messages I send?").
For more info, see the man pages comp(1), repl(1), forw(1),
dist(1) and mh-mail(5).
See also MH book sections 7.8.2 (6.7.2), 9.8 (8.6), or the URLs:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/reprep-2.html#Sel
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/defmai.html
From: Alec Wolman <wolman at crl.dec.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
Listing the name of a mailing list in Alternate-Mailboxes is also a
convenient way to AVOID automatically cc-ing a mailing list when
replying to a person who sent the message to the mailing-list.
From: Andre Srinivasan <asriniva at us.oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:33:19 -0800
Rather than specify the hostname as part of the mailbox, you can
simply specify the username and it will match on any host:
Alternate-Mailboxes: asriniva
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Subject: 05.04 How can I include my signature?
From: Eric W. Ziegast <ziegast at uunet.uu.net>,
Hardy Mayer <hardy at golem.ps.uci.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
There are several ways.
1) The MH way.
1a) In your Mail directory, create files that include your signature
into the format of the message.
~/Mail/components:
To:
cc:
Subject:
--------
--
Eric Ziegast ziegast at uunet.uu.net
UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast
~/Mail/replfmt
body:component="> ",compwidth=2
:--
:Eric Ziegast ziegast at uunet.uu.net
:UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast
To use the replfmt file, add the following to your ~/.mh_profile:
repl: -filter replfmt
When comp is used, your signature is already there along with my
headers. When repl is used, the mhl program takes the body of
the letter you're replying to, prepends '> ' to each line and
then adds your signature at the end (available after version
6.7).
1b) Create an "editor" which can be called from whatnow to add the
signature when desired or create a frontend to post (use the
.mh_profile line "postproc: postproc" to call it) that always
appends the .signature file before calling post to mail the
message. David J. Fiander <david at golem.uucp>, David A.
Truesdell <truesdel at nas.nasa.gov> and Tom Wilmore <sastjw at
unx.sas.com> have sample scripts to do these.
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:00:00 -0800
1c) mysend, a sendproc script, processes a message after "What now?
send". See "What references exist for MH" to see where the MH
book scripts can be ftped from. The script is explained in MH
book Section 7.1.4 (13.13), or the URL:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/senove.html#ASAtDm
2) Using your editor. If you use vi, you can use something like:
map S :r ~/.signature
to load your signature out of .signature every time you
hit 'S'.
3) Use your windowing system. xterm, for example, can provide key
and button mappings for the utterly lazy.
4) If you use Emacs with MH-E:
4a) C-c C-s will append the signature.
From: Andre Srinivasan <andre at neuronet.pitt.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
4b) Add the following to your .emacs file:
(add-hook 'mh-compose-letter-function
(function
(lambda(a b c)
(save-excursion
(goto-char (point-max))
(beginning-of-line)
(mh-insert-signature)))))
This hook is called after the draft buffer has been initialized,
but before you have a chance to type anything.
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist at perl.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
Tired of the same old signature? Want different signatures for
different newsgroups? Here's a program to help you out.
The way it works is to have .signature be a named pipe, so if you
don't have named pipes, just say 'n'.
The sigrand program then feeds stuff down the pipe every time
someone wants to read it. That way it works for more than just news,
but for anything that wants to read your .signature, like a mailer.
You have your choice of three kinds of signatures:
1) random (short) fortune from "fortune -s"; you get these if
you don't have a global sig file.
2) random fortune from ~/News/SIGNATURES [global sig file]
3) random fortune form ~/News/(newsgroup)/SIGNATURES [local sig
files]
Send mail if interested.
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
See also the Signature FAQ (see "What references exist for MH?").
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Subject: 05.05 How do I call my editor with arguments?
From: John Romine <jromine at ics.uci.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
Set your editor (in .mh_profile) to the following shellscript.
#/bin/sh
<youreditor> <yourargs> "$@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"
exit 0
From: Ray Nickson <Ray.Nickson at comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
You might find it useful to make <youreditor> $EDITOR, or to use
different arguments depending on your EDITOR environment variable.
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Subject: 05.06 How can I digestify messages in a folder for mail to
another user?
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>, Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
How about:
forw [-digest tmp] [-form forwcomps] [-filter mhl.digest]
messages +folder
These messages can be un-digestified :-) by the MH burst(1) program.
See also MH book sections 7.9.7 (6.8.7), 8.10 (7.9), or the URLs:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/forfor-2.html#CreDig
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/burdig.html
From: Glenn Vanderburg <glv at utdallas.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
There's another way, which is better if the recipient understands
MIME.
forw -mime messages +folder
(Make sure that you either have "automhnproc: mhn" in your mh
profile, or type "edit mhn" to whatnow before you send it.)
This bundles each message in a MIME message/rfc822 part, and then
bundles the whole mess up in a multipart/digest part. You can still
add your own text at the beginning. The MH burst program can also
understand these messages and split them apart with no problem. This
works beautifully with MIME-capable mail readers, especially exmh.
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Subject: 05.07 How can I change my return address?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800
If you find that your mailer creates a From header that others have
trouble replying to, you can add a Reply-To header to override the
From header in replies.
Copy the components and replcomps files which are normally found in
$MHLIB into your Mail directory and add a line like the following
after the Subject header replacing my address with your address:
Reply-To: jack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 05.08 How can I change my From header?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:40:50 -0800
With either of the following solutions, you'll need to add an
Alternate-Mailboxes entry in your MH profile so that scan prints
"To: recipient" rather than your faked address. For example, if your
real address is user@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and you've added a From field
of:
From: Joe Bob <joe.bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
you'll add the following to .mh_profile:
Alternate-Mailboxes: joe.bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Wisner <wisner at netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800
If you're just interested in changing the hostname, add a line to
$MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor):
localname: desired_host_name
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800
Just put a "From:" header in your "components", "replcomps" and
"forwcomps" files. MH will add a "Sender:" header with what it
thinks is your real address.
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Subject: 05.09 How can I save a copy of all messages I send?
From: Ping Huang <pshuang at sgihub.corp.sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:51:33 -0800
I suggest the use of the Dcc: field (See "What is the Dcc header?"),
since the use of "Dcc:" solves the issue of having the same
Message-Id. The warning about using Dcc: in general contexts doesn't
apply to self-blind-carbon copies, and if "Dcc:" is used and you are
automatically sorting messages into folders based on mailing lists,
messages which you send will get refiled in the same way. Some may
prefer all outgoing messages to be segregated; others (including
myself) prefer not to segregate outgoing messages.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>, Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
Copy the components and replcomps files which are normally found in
$MHLIB into your Mail directory and add a line like the following
after the cc header:
Fcc: +out
All outgoing messages will then be saved in the +out folder. If you
make a distcomps file, it needs "Resent-Fcc:".
From: Jeppe Sigbrandt <jay at elec.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 02:04:53 +0100
You can also use @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
in the Fcc field to file the outgoing message in
the current folder.
Fcc: @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is useful if you filter your mail (e.g., with procmail) and you
read your mail in folders other than +inbox.
From: David S. Goldberg <dsg at linus.mitre.org>
Date: 30 Oct 1995 10:23:55 -0500
You can get the Message-ID field by placing the folder in the "Fcc"
field and adding:
send: -msgid
to your .mh_profile. Unfortunately, this Message-ID isn't as useful
as sendmail's--it doesn't include the date.
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Subject: 05.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified?
From: Andy Rabagliati <andyr at wizzy.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
My suggestion would be to run Tom Christiansen's rfi script. If you
cannot find it on *.sources archive sites (please try first), I can
mail it to you.
One good idea would be to write a whatnowproc that files the mail
based on a procmail or deliver file. Then you can use the same file
for incoming and outgoing mail.
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Subject: 05.11 Can I post secure/encryped mail?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:06:39 -0700
MH-E 7.0 sup****ts GPG out of the box.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 05:30:43 -0800
PGP keys can be obtained via mail from <pgp-public-keys at
pgp.mit.edu>, and via the Web at
http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pks-commands.html.
Many PGP front-ends
(e.g., mailcrypt) automatically obtain keys for you.
See http://www.pgp.net/
for more info.
From: Vivek Khera <khera at kciLink.com>
Date: 19 Jun 1995 22:06:37 GMT
A much more robust Perl script I wrote is appended below. [Send a
note to Vivek for the script. --Ed] It works its way through
aliases, and avoids problems with full names in the headers.
Here is my mhn profile entry to display the messages.
mhshow-show-application/x-pgp: %l pgp -m '%F' # nmh
mhn-show-application/x-pgp: %l pgp -m '%F' # MH
to use the script, after you edit the message, at the What now?
prompt, type "edit pgpmail" for plain ascii encryption or "pgpmail
-m" for a MIME formatted encryption. If you want to add a digital
signature, give the script the -s flag also.
From: Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ollie.clive.ia.us>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
TIS has a free, draft-standard compliant public key system that
works with MH (PEM). Check it out on ftp.tis.com.
From: Kimmo Suominen <kim at tac.nyc.ny.us>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
You could try looking at the URL http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/
and
following the link from the cover page. Everything you need for PGP
to work with MH is there (scripts and mhn entries).
From: mathew at mantis.co.uk
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
Excellent stuff. I've tried altering it to conform to
draft-borenstein-pgp-mime-00.txt.
Unfortunately, I can't get mhn to tag PGP-armoured text as
application/pgp; format=text without it insisting on base64 encoding
it. So I can't quite manage to implement the standard. *sigh*
Presumably mhn thinks that anything which isn't text/* must be
encoded.
From: John R MacMillan <john at interlog.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:06:59 -0700
Premail, in conjunction with MH, can display and compose security
multiparts (e.g., multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted PGP mail,
non-MIME PGP, and some S/MIME). Check out
http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail/
for details.
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Subject: 05.12 How can I send multi-media (MIME) attachments?
From: Brian Exelbierd <bex at ncsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 08:05:55 -0400
The short guide:
1. Compose a letter using comp.
2. When you get to a point where you want to include a MIME
attachment, type the following to include a GIF image (note: the
'#' must be in the first column):
#image/gif [Pictures at an Exhibition] /usr/lib/pictures/exhibition.gif
3. Finish your letter, adding more text or attachments as needed.
4. Save your letter and exit the editor. At the Whatnow prompt type
"edit mhn". mhn will automatically format your letter with the
MIME attachments leaving the original letter in ,##,orig where ##
is the letter number.
5. Type "send" at the Whatnow prompt, and poof, you have just sent
MIME mail. I strongly recommend you practice sending yourself
MIME mail first.
For more information, see the mhn(1) man page,
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types
for a list of allowed media types in addition to image/gif, and
Chapter 3 in the MH book or the URL:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/overall/tocs/intmime.html
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Subject: 05.13 What's the best way to send mail to a long list of people?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 07:53:53 -0700
There are three ways to keep the list of members from appearing in
everyone's header.
If you're planning on mailing to these people regularly, the best
way is to create an alias in /etc/aliases (/usr/lib/aliases). That
way, recipients can send and reply to the list as well.
The other two ways allow you to manage the list privately, but the
recipients cannot send to the list (unless you set something up with
your deliver or procmail script). One is with a group list. It looks
like this:
To: All-members: member1, member2, member3, ..., membern;
The recipients see this:
To: All-members:;
You can make this an MH alias as well.
The second way is to use a blind carbon copy (see "How do I send
blind carbon copies?").
Or you could also use the undo***ented Dcc field which is used like
the Bcc field, but doesn't inject the "Blind-Carbon-Copy." Warning:
(See "What is the Dcc header?")
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Subject: 05.14 What is the Dcc header?
From: jpeek at jpeek.com (Jerry Peek)
Date: 14 Sep 96 05:51:13 GMT
If you put the alias in the Dcc field and leave the To: field empty,
there's a good chance that the recipients will get a message with
the header field:
Apparently-to: <someaddress>
and it might even list several addresses. To avoid that, use a To:
field with some address (like yours) in it. I use a comment that
tells people what's really happening--like this, more or less:
To: "Faculty members, c/o" <super@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
dcc: faculty
There are some other choices, like using an un-replyable group list
in the To: field, but I think they tend to confuse non-techies.
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 09:46:37 -0700
From: John Romine <jromine at yoyodyne.ICS.UCI.EDU>
The Dcc (Distribution Carbon Copy) field behaves much like the Bcc
field, but does not add the "Blind-Carbon-Copy" notice. This header
is removed before posting the message,and a copy of the message is
distributed to each listed address. This could be considered a form
of Blind Carbon Copy which is best used for sending to an address
which would never reply (such as an auto-archiver).
People should not be using Dcc as a substitute-Bcc to send to other
people. When users use Dcc as a substitute for Bcc, there is *no*
indication to the "blind" recipients that they have received a blind
copy. If those recipients should reply (and they have no indication
why they shouldn't), the original author could be very embarassed
(or worse).
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Subject: 05.15 How can I make sense of the replcomps file?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:27:14 -0800
The best thing to do is curl up with the mh-format(5) man page, or
Section 11.2 of the MH book, or the URL:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/mhstr.html
These will explain the default replcomps file, included here. Don't
start with the first four lines--the latter group of lines are much
easier to understand.
%; $Header: /cvsroot/nmh/nmh/etc/replcomps,v 1.3.2.1 2003/10/24
20:14:46 kenh Exp $
%;
%; These next lines slurp in lots of addresses for To: and cc:.
%; Use with repl -query or else you may get flooded with addresses!
%;
%; If no To:/cc:/Fcc: text, we output empty fields for prompter to
fill in.
%;
%(lit)%(formataddr{reply-to})\
%(formataddr %<{from}%(void{from})%|%(void{apparently-from})%>)\
%(formataddr{resent-to})\
%(formataddr{prev-resent-to})\
%(formataddr{x-to})\
%(formataddr{apparently-to})\
%(void(width))%(putaddr To: )
%(lit)%(formataddr{to})\
%(formataddr{cc})\
%(formataddr{x-cc})\
%(formataddr{resent-cc})\
%(formataddr{prev-resent-cc})\
%(formataddr(me))\
%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )
Fcc: %<{fcc}%{fcc}%|+outbox%>
Subject: %<{subject}Re: %{subject}%>
%;
%; Make References: and In-reply-to: fields for threading.
%; Use (void), (trim) and (putstr) to eat trailing whitespace.
%;
%<{message-id}In-reply-to: %{message-id}\n%>\
%<{message-id}References: \
%<{references}%(void{references})%(trim)%(putstr) %>\
%(void{message-id})%(trim)%(putstr)\n%>\
Comments: In-reply-to \
%<{from}%(void{from})%?(void{apparently-from})%|%(void{sender})%>\
%(trim)%(putstr)\n\
message dated "%<(nodate{date})%{date}%|%(tws{date})%>."
--------
In particular, note the following:
\ consider the following line to be part of the current line. If
this continuation character is absent, a newline (\n) will
always be inserted. Note that if the field is conditional, and
the condition is false, and there isn't a trailing backslash,
then a blank line will appear in your reply. Since the rest of
the header will now be considered to be part of the body, this
is probably not what you want.
\n inject an actual newline into the reply. Note that inserting a
field without a trailing backslash (\) will cause that field
to be emitted in the reply as well.
%<{field}, %?{field}, %|, %>
if field exists, else if field exists, else, endif.
Conditional fields nearly always contain an explicit newline
(\n) and end with a continuation character (\).
%(command) mh-format commands
%{field} value of the header field inserted at this point
To add new fields, you can either add fields based on whether
certain fields exist in the original message (e.g.,
%<{message-id}...), or hard-code them, as in the Fcc, Subject, or
Comments fields above.
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Subject: 05.16 How can I convert quoted-printable to 8bit in quoted text
in replies?
From: Jarle F. Greipsland <jarle at idt.unit.no>
Date: 22 Aug 1995 10:42:07 +0200
The idea behind the solution is that I need mhn to store the
contents of the mail in the native iso8859-1 format somewhere. I did
this by creating a custom editor that is invoked when I reply to a
message. This editor extracts the body of the message (sorry, no
multipart stuff), indents it with '> ', appends it to the draft
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