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4 Subject: MH Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with Answers
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15 Summary: This document answers Frequently Asked Questions about MH, a
16 sophisticated mail interface. It should be read by new MH
17 users and comp.mail.mh readers and before posting to this group.
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24 Archive-name: mail/mh-faq/part1
25 Last-modified: $Date: 1995/12/02 02:55:05 $
26 Version: $Revision: 95.11.1.1 $
27 Posting-Frequency: monthly
29 This is a living list of frequently asked questions on the mailer
30 user interface, Mail Handler, or MH. The point of this is to
31 circulate existing information, and avoid rehashing old answers.
32 Better to build on top than start again. Please read this document
33 before ever posting to this newsgroup.
35 This article is posted monthly. If it has already expired and
36 you're not reading this, you can hope that you saved the
37 instructions to retrieve the FAQ (see "Where can I get MH") so that
38 you can get a copy through other means.
40 Please do not post an answer when someone posts a frequently asked
41 question; rather, email the relevant section of the FAQ to eliminate
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45 them to Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>.
47 Copyright 1991-1995 Bill Wohler
49 Permission to use, copy, distribute, and translate this document for
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52 require prior written consent.
54 This article is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
55 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
56 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
58 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
60 Subject: Table of Contents
61 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
62 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:43:36 -0800
64 Legend: + new, - deleted, ! changed
69 01.01 Why should I use MH?
70 01.02 What is the current version/status of MH?
71 01.03 Where can I get MH?
72 01.04 What references exist for MH?
73 01.05 !What other MH software is available?
74 01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
75 01.07 How should I report bugs?
76 01.08 !How can I convert from my mailer to MH?
81 02.01 What machines does MH run on?
82 02.02 How do I build MH?
83 02.03 What options should I use?
84 02.04 Where can I get POP3?
85 02.05 Does MH support IMAP?
86 02.06 Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc and not slocal?
87 02.07 !How can I build MH on Solaris 2?
88 02.08 !How can I build MH on Linux?
89 02.09 +How can I build MH on IRIX?
90 02.10 +How can I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?
91 02.11 +How do I build MH on HPUX?
92 02.12 +Can I prevent adding the local hostname to addresses behind firewalls?
93 ______________________
95 03. Scanning & Reading
97 03.01 What do I do if scan shows the wrong date?
98 03.02 !How would one go about reading Usenet with MH?
99 03.03 How can I search through multiple folders?
100 03.04 Why don't MH format commands such as %(friendly) work?
101 03.05 Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?
102 03.06 Can I get show not to run "less" so much on MIME messages?
103 03.07 Why do I get "mhn: don't know how to display content"?
104 03.08 +How can I automatically delete MH backup files?
105 03.09 +Fixing "cannot fopen and lock /var/spool/mail/(user)".
106 03.10 +Can I read my mail with a Web browser?
111 04.01 Can I append MH messages to a Unix mailbox format file?
112 04.02 Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file?
113 04.03 Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?"
114 04.04 How can you save News articles into an MH folder?
115 04.05 +Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
116 04.06 +How can I remove duplicate messages?
117 ________________________
119 05. Composing & Replying
121 05.01 Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one?
122 05.02 How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"?
123 05.03 How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself?
124 05.04 How can I include my signature?
125 05.05 How do I call my editor with arguments?
126 05.06 How can I digestify messages in a folder for mail to another user?
127 05.07 How can I change my return address?
128 05.08 !How can I change my From header?
129 05.09 !How can I save a copy of all messages I send?
130 05.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified?
131 05.11 !Can I post secure/encryped mail?
132 05.12 +How can I send multi-media (MIME) attachments?
133 05.13 +What's the best way to send mail to a long list of people?
134 05.14 +What is the Dcc header?
135 05.15 +How can I make sense of the replcomps file?
136 05.16 +How can I convert quoted-printable to 8bit in quoted text in replies?
141 06.01 What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed".
142 06.02 Can I run my message through a program (e.g., ispell) before sending?
143 06.03 What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part".
144 06.04 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available"
145 06.05 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender
147 06.06 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [BHST] no socket opened"
148 06.07 How do I fix the "X-Authentication-Warning" header?
149 06.08 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [RPLY] 503 Need MAIL
151 06.09 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature
152 end-of-file on socket"
153 06.10 Fixing "Sender didn't use the HELO protocol"
154 06.11 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 553 Local
155 configuration error, hostname not recognized as local
160 07.01 !What mail filters are available?
161 07.02 Why slocal writes messages to system mailbox that from(1) can't read.
162 07.03 Where can I read about slocal and the format of .maildelivery?
163 07.04 How do I debug my .maildelivery file?
164 07.05 Why isn't slocal working?
169 08.01 Is there documentation for mh-e?
170 08.02 How can mail aliases can be expanded in mh-e?
171 08.03 !How do I use POP with mh-e?
176 09.01 How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor?
177 09.02 Does xmh support subfolders?
178 09.03 How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh?
183 !Glossary & Acknowledgments
184 Switching xmh's editor
191 +Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)
192 +Removing duplicate messages (Perl)
194 ------------------------------
196 Subject: !Preface Viewing This Article
197 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
198 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:44:19 -0800
200 To skip to a particular question numbered xx, use "/^F.*xx" with most
201 pagers. In GNU Emacs type "M-C-s ^F.*xx", (or C-r to search backwards),
202 followed by ESC to end the search.
204 To skip to new or changed questions, use "/^S.*[!+]" with most pagers and
205 "M-C-s ^S.*[!+]" in GNU Emacs.
207 This article is in digest format. Nn may have already broken this
208 message into separate articles; if not, then type "G %". In rn, use
211 This article is treated as an outline when edited by GNU Emacs. Run
212 "M-x describe-mode" to see available outline-mode commands. Useful
213 commands are "M-x hide-body", "C-c C-s" (show-subtree) and "M-x
216 A "Date" field whose time is 00:00:00 is approximate. The month and
217 year in these fields represent the time they were added to the FAQ,
218 rather than when they were contributed by the author, as is the case
219 since November, 1995.
221 If you should need the Internet address, use nslookup or dig if you
222 have them, or send mail to dns@grasp.insa-lyon.fr with "help" for
225 References to $MHLIB refer to the directory that contains MH support
226 files and routines. This directory is usually /usr/lib/mh or
227 /usr/local/lib/mh. Do not use $MHLIB literally; use the real,
228 absolute path to your MH library directory.
230 ------------------------------
232 Subject: 01. ***** Introduction *****
233 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
234 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
236 ------------------------------
238 Subject: 01.01 Why should I use MH?
239 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
240 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
242 The MH message handling system is a set of electronic mail programs
243 in the public domain. If your computer runs Unix, it can probably
246 The big difference between MH and most other "mail user agents" is
247 that you can use MH from a Unix shell prompt. In MH, each command
248 is a separate program, and the shell is used as an interpreter. So,
249 all the power of Unix shells (pipes, redirection, history, aliases,
250 and so on) works with MH--you don't have to learn a new interface.
251 Other mail agents have their own command interpreter for their
252 individual mail commands (although the mush mail agent simulates a
255 Because MH commands aren't part of a monolithic mail system, you can
256 use them at any time; you don't have to start or quit the mail
257 agent. Because you use them from a shell prompt, you can use all
258 the power of the shell.
260 If your shell has time-saving aliases or functions (and most do),
261 you'll be able to use them with MH, of course. And because MH isn't
262 a monolithic mail agent, you can use MH commands in Unix shell
263 scripts, or call them from programs in high-level languages like C.
265 Unlike most mail agents, MH keeps each message in a separate file.
266 The filename is the message number. To rearrange the messages, MH
267 just changes the filenames. MH can use standard Unix file system
268 operations such as removing, copying and linking messages. The
269 message files are grouped into one or more folders, which are
270 actually Unix directories.
272 MH is free, powerful, flexible--and the basics are easy to learn.
274 ------------------------------
276 Subject: 01.02 What is the current version/status of MH.
277 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
278 Date: Sun, 1 May 94 00:00:00 -0800
280 The current version of MH is 6.8.3.
282 This version includes MIME, a multi-media MH package that implements
283 the new IETF work on Multi-media 822 (MIME). This allows you to
284 include things like audio, graphics, and the like, in your mail
285 messages. --Marshall Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us>
287 MH now works with Kerberos as well.
289 In addition, a new program called mhparam extracts arguments from
290 .mh_profile which is useful in shell scripts.
292 Please see the file CHANGES in the distribution for more details.
294 ------------------------------
296 Subject: 01.03 Where can I get MH?
297 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
298 Date: Mon, 1 May 94 00:00:00 -0800
300 MH comes standard with:
302 Berkeley Software Design BSD/386 . . . . MH 6.8.3
303 Control Data Corp. CDC4680-MP . . . . . . EMH 1.4.2 (modified MH)
304 DEC Ultrix 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.5
305 DEC Ultrix 4.2A.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7.1
306 DEC OSF/1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7
307 Evans and Sutherland ES/OS 2.3 . . . . . MH 6.6
308 IBM PS/2 AIX 1.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.4
309 IBM RISC System/6000 AIX 3.x and 4.1 . . MH 6.6
310 Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.8.3
311 MIPS RISC/OS 4.52 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.6
312 Sony NEWS-OS 4.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7.2
313 Tektronix UTek . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH (Version Unknown)
314 Table maintained by: "James R. Hamilton" <jrh@jrh.guild.org>
316 If you should need the Internet address, use nslookup or dig if you
317 have them, or send mail to dns@grasp.insa-lyon.fr with "help" for
321 ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z 2MB
322 ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z
323 ftp://krynn.efd.lth.se/pub/mail/mh-6.8.tar.Z
326 Send a note to either mail-server@nluug.nl or
327 archive-server@germany.eu.net with a body containing the following:
329 send mail/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z
331 UK users may be able to use ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk. Send a note
332 whose body contains "help" to this address.
334 Send a note to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com whose body contains "help"
335 on a line by itself get information on getting ftp sources by
336 mail. Also include the lines "connect" and "dir /pub/mail/ua/mh"
337 to see which files are available local to decwrl. Please do this
338 as a last resort only.
341 You can send $75 US to the address below. This covers
342 the cost of a 6250 BPI 9-track magtape, handling, and ship-
343 ping. In addition, you'll get a laser-printed hard-copy of
344 the entire MH documentation set. Be sure to include your
345 USPS address with your check. Checks must be drawn on U.S.
346 funds and should be made payable to:
348 Regents of the University of California
350 The distribution address is:
352 University of California at Irvine
353 Office of Academic Computing
354 Engineering Gateway E2130
359 Sadly, if you just want the hard-copies of the documenta-
360 tion, you still have to pay the $75. The tar image has the
361 documentation source (the manual is in roff format, but the
362 rest are in TeX format). Postscript formatted versions of
363 the TeX papers are available, as are crude tty-conversions
366 ------------------------------
368 Subject: 01.04 What references exist for MH?
369 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
370 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
373 MH & xmh: E-mail for Users & Programmers. Third edition. Jerry
374 Peek, with Bill Wohler and Brent Welch.
375 ISBN 1-56592-093-7. $34.95. 738 pages.
376 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
378 US and Canada: 800-998-9938. Fax: 707-829-0104.
380 To get a list of non-US distributors, connect to gopher.ora.com,
381 http://www.ora.com/, send a note to info@ora.com or call +1-707-829-0515.
383 References to "the MH book" in this document refer to the third
384 edition of this book (section numbers for the second edition appear
387 Examples from this book are in:
388 ftp://ftp.uu.net/published/oreilly/nutshell/MHxmh/MHxmh3.tar.Z 114k
390 There is another book that contains a number of examples of
391 advanced mail handing using MH as the example message handler.
392 It's also quite a good reference on email in general.
394 The Internet Message. Marshall T. Rose
395 ISBN 0-13-092941-7. 396 pages.
399 MHN Tutorial by Jerry Sweet
400 ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.ps.Z 141k
401 ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.tex.Z 48k
404 comp.mail.mh (gatewayed to MH-users)
407 General questions/discussion: MH-users@ics.uci.edu
408 (gatewayed to comp.mail.mh).
409 MH developers and maintainers: MH-workers@ics.uci.edu.
410 Please use MH-users-request and MH-workers-request to request
411 an addition or deletion.
414 ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/mh-users/
416 The files are in packf(1) format, compressed with compress(1). To
417 get them, use anonymous ftp and set "binary" transfer mode.
419 mh-users.86.Z 8549 mh-users.86.scan.Z 771
420 mh-users.87.Z 55449 mh-users.87.scan.Z 3679
421 mh-users.88.Z 182805 mh-users.88.scan.Z 11339
422 mh-users.89.Z 89151 mh-users.89.scan.Z 5522
423 mh-users.90.Z 402470 mh-users.90.scan.Z 21551
424 mh-users.91.Z 878763 mh-users.91.scan.Z 36992
425 mh-users.92.Z 1281585 mh-users.92.scan.Z 44975
426 mh-users.93.Z 1544159 mh-users.93.scan.Z 52938
427 mh-users.mbox: current archive, uncompressed.
429 There are directions in the README file. Basically, you can use
430 either "msh" or the individual commands "inc -file" to get the
431 messages into a folder, and then "scan", "pick", "show", and so on
432 (or your favorite commands in xmh, mh-e, etc.). --Jerry Peek
437 http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mh-faq/part1/top.html
440 ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/mh-faq/part1
441 ftp://ftp.uu.net/archive/usenet/news.answers/mail/mh-faq/part1.Z
442 ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/mail/mh-faq/part1
445 Each of the following addresses is following by commands which
446 should be included as the body of the message.
448 mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
449 send /usenet/news.answers/mail/mh-faq/part1
451 mail-server@cs.ruu.nl
452 send /pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/mail/mh-faq/part1
455 GNU Emacs 19.29 comes with a version of mh-e which now includes
456 on-line (Texinfo) documentation. Try "C-h i m mh-e RET". See
457 also "What other MH software is available?" to see where you can
458 get the latest version of mh-e which includes the documentation
462 ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/exmh/exmh.README
464 Signature and Finger FAQ:
466 http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/signature_finger_faq/faq.html
469 ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/signature_finger_faq
471 via mail (see above for usage):
472 mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
473 send /usenet/news.answers/signature_finger_faq
475 ------------------------------
477 Subject: 01.05 !What other MH software is available?
478 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
479 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:05:24 -0800
481 From: James Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com>
482 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
485 Vmh is designed for people using the bulletin-board features
486 of MH, where mail is stored in packed (single-file) folders. As
487 a result, use of this program cannot be mixed with the use of
488 normal MH commands. Vmh is a part of the official MH
491 From: James Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com>
492 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
495 Xmh is a X11 mouse-based MH browsing tool. It is very powerful
496 and feature-filled and thus comes with a moderate learning
497 curve. Its dependence on the X11 environment makes it very
498 reconfigurable, but only by people well-versed in X applications
499 programming. Its message reply built-in-editor interface is not
500 always popular among those used to having MH bring up the editor
503 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
505 xmh is part of the standard X Window System distribution from
506 the X Consortium. Ultrix also ships dxmail which is similar.
508 ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/xmh.shar.Z 162k
510 From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <hta@boheme.er.sintef.no>
511 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
513 Here's a version of xmh that includes MIME.
515 ftp://aun.uninett.no/pub/mail/mixmh/mixmh-0.3.tar.Z 232k
517 From: Brent Welch <welch@parc.xerox.com>
518 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
521 EXMH is a user interface for the MH mail system written in TCL/TK.
523 Exmh has MIME support, color feedback in the scan listing, a
524 folder display with one label per folder, clever scan caching,
525 facesaver bitmap display; background inc, various inc styles,
526 searching over folder listing and message body, a dialog-box
527 interface to MH pick, a simple built-in emacs-like editor,
528 interfaces to other editors, user preferences, user hacking
531 ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/exmh/exmh-1.4.1.tar.Z 357k
532 ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/exmh/exmh-1.5omega.tar.Z
535 From: Stephen Gildea <gildea@x.org>
536 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
539 Mh-e is the GNU Emacs front end for MH. It offers all the
540 functionality of MH, the visual orientation and simplicity of
541 use of xmh, and full integration with Emacs, including thorough
542 configurability. The command set is similar to that of rmail
543 (the Emacs front end for BSD mail) and BSD mail itself. On-line
546 Mh-e allows one to read and process mail very quickly: commands
547 are single characters and completion and defaults are available
548 for file and folder names. During a reply, the original message
549 is displayed simultaneously in another window for easy reference
550 where a mh-e command can quickly incorporate and format this
551 text into your reply.
553 With mh-e you compose outgoing messages in Emacs. This is a big
554 plus for Emacs users, but it has been known for non-Emacs users
555 to be able use mh-e after only learning the most basic cursor
556 motion commands. Mh-e is easily configured via the Emacs
557 edit-options menu, and people familiar with Emacs Lisp will be
558 able to further reconfigure mh-e beyond recognition.
560 Mh-e is part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution. Note that
561 mh-e got much faster in Emacs 18.56.
563 ftp://ftp.x.org/misc/mh-e/mh-e-5.0.tar.Z 66k
565 From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@thumper.bellcore.com>
566 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:04:51 -0800
569 Metamail is a package that can be used to convert virtually ANY
570 mail-reading program on Unix into a multi-media mail-reading program.
571 It is an extremely generic implementation of MIME (Multipurpose
572 Internet Mail Extensions), the proposed standard for multi-media mail
573 formats on the Internet. The implementation is extremely flexible and
574 extensible, using a "mailcap" file mechanism for adding support for new
575 data formats when sent through the mail. At a heterogeneous site where
576 many mail readers are in use, the mailcap mechanism can be used to
577 extend them all to support new types of multi-media mail by a single
578 addition to a mailcap file.
580 The metamail distribution comes complete with a small patch for
581 each of over a dozen popular mail reading programs, including
582 Berkeley mail, mh, Elm, Xmh, Xmail, Mailtool, Emacs Rmail, Emacs
583 VM, Andrew, and others. Note that the MH patches are now integrated
586 ftp://ftp.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z
588 From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
589 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
592 Plum is a highly configurable and extensible screen-oriented front-end
593 for processing MH mail on ASCII terminals. Unlike mh-e, the extension
594 language used in plum is perl, not LISP. Plum offers many of the
595 advantages of xmh, but lacks several of xmh's disadvantages. The
596 look&feel derives more from vi than from emacs. Key bindings and
597 functions may be changed on the fly to suit the user's preference. It
598 offers filename and word completion on folder, variables, and command
601 Until it is included in the standard distribution (under miscellany),
602 you can find a copy on:
604 ftp://perl.com/pub/perl/scripts/plum.gz 29k
606 or mail requests to Tom
608 From: Jerry Sweet <jsweet@irvine.com>
609 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
612 Mhunify is a set of perl scripts and templates that provides
613 shell-level MH functionality with USENET news. Since MH supports
614 MIME, MIME-format news articles just work. I've found that being
615 able to handle news in the same way that I handle email is very
616 useful, although there are some tradeoffs.
618 Mhunify also treats MH folders just like news groups. If you
619 subscribe to several mailing lists, and your email is
620 automatically delivered to separate folders, say, via procmail or
621 via MMDF's .maildelivery, the mhunify package lets you progress
622 automatically through your folders just as you would news groups.
624 ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhunify.shar.gz
626 From: Dale Carstensen <dlc@c3file.c3.lanl.gov>
627 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
630 Sun's Open Windows 3 comes with a demo for OLIT (Open Look
631 Interface Toolkit, the Open Look wrapper to Xt) named olmh that
632 does handle 3rd and subsequent levels of nesting of folders.
634 Obtain the Open Windows 3 distribution CD/ROM from Sun (SPARC
635 only). To do this, call 1-800-USA-4SUN and send tone "2" for
636 telemarketing after it answers. The 4.1.2 CD/ROM may also have
637 Open Windows 3. The list price for the 4.1.2 CD/ROM is $200.
639 From: James Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com>
640 Date: Sun, 1 May 94 00:00:00 -0800
643 Vmail is a curses-based, vi-like message browser which calls on
644 MH programs to manipulate mail. It can be used on almost any
645 terminal. It organizes mail folders into index pages, from
646 which a message can be selected to be shown, replied-to,
647 forwarded, refiled, deleted, and so on. The vi-like interface
648 and command keystrokes are comfortable to less-experienced Unix
649 users, and it is a small, compact program, unlike the mh-e Emacs
652 This version of vmail has been bugfixed and enhanced from the
653 original vmail published on the net in 1987 by J. Zobel.
655 ftp://ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.unix/volume12/vmail/part0*.Z 46k
656 ftp://ftp.ucs.ubc.ca/pub/mh/vmail.[1-3]of3.Z 58k
658 Or mail requests to James.
660 From: James Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com>
661 Date: Sun, 1 May 94 00:00:00 -0800
664 If you have a Sun workstation, vmailtool may be for you. It is a
665 button gadget panel for the above-mentioned vmail program. It
666 brings vmail into the windows era where people no longer need to
667 memorize specific command keystrokes. It also provides a mail
668 icon with the flag that pops up when new mail arrives. Again,
669 this is a compact, simple tool, unlike the powerful xmh program.
670 Still, it's a welcome alternative for many people who are running
671 SunView or OpenWindows.
673 ftp://ftp.ucs.ubc.ca/pub/mh/vmailtool.Z 18k
675 or mail requests to James.
678 MMH, My Mail Handler, is a Motif interface for reading and sending mail.
679 It uses the MH commands to actually handle sending a receiving messages.
680 It does not support all the capabilities of MH, but offers a large
681 enough subset to handle the majority of users. Its intended user is
682 someone between "bumbling email novice" and "sophisticated user".
683 Hooks are provided to allow the user to customize and add new commands.
685 ftp://ftp.eos.ncsu.edu/pub/bill/bill.tar.Z 120k
687 From: Andrew Waugh <ajw@mel.dit.csiro.au>
688 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
691 If a name is enclosed in square brackets, when entering a destination
694 To: [Greg Wickham,CSIRO]
696 a search will be made in the X.500 Directory for the individual's entry.
697 If an address exists then it will be extracted and placed into the
698 headers. Mail requests for the software to the author.
700 From: Barbara Dyker <dyker@teal.csn.org>
701 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
704 QuemeMH is an email based service request and tracking system
705 based on the Rand Mail Handler.
707 ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/sysadmin/utilities/queuemh.tar.Z 98k
709 From: <info@rootgroup.com>
710 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 00:00:00 -0800
713 Qmh is an MH-based group mail management tool. Written entirely in
714 perl, Qmh combines the best aspects of MH with group mail
715 heuristics and delivers a sensible package for all levels of Unix
716 users. A limitless number of individual queues and associated
717 groups of permitted users can be established.
719 Specific functionality includes the following modes of operation;
720 checking header dates and sending reminder/deadline mail, editing
721 existing messages, help screens, creating new messages from
722 scratch or exiting messages, resolving messages, scanning queue
723 folders, and annotating with status both by editing and sending
726 Qmh is a single generic program in and of itself from which all
727 modes of operation are invoked. Additionally, each separate queue
728 may be accessed via a link to the single program. All system
729 configuration is maintained in a single file that is read upon
730 each invocation of Qmh. Formatting and template files are
731 provided in the system library, although individual users can
732 override the defaults simply by creating equivalent files in their
733 own MH mail directory.
735 Qmh provides a powerful database-like functionality by allowing
736 limitless per-queue X-Qmh-<$value> headers to be included in
737 messages. These "fields" then form the context of the queue
738 messages and provide a user-defined, but yet structured
739 environment for queries, reporting, and random information.
741 Qmh is designed to provide a complete solution for SA groups, help
742 desks, support organizations, or wherever two or more individuals
743 are trying to manage multiple mail requests.
745 Qmh is also compatible with versions of xmh that provide
746 user-level command buttons. Provided in the Qmh package is a
747 ~/.Xdefaults template file that's setup to harness the power of
750 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>, Shannon Yeh <yeh@netix.com>
751 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
754 These were available only for non-commercial degree-granting
757 Networking & Communication Systems
760 Stanford, CA 94305-4122
761 Phone: +1 415-723-3909
764 ftp://netix.com/pub/pc-mh-info/*
766 For more PC/MH info, contact:
768 Netix Communications, Inc.
769 15375 Barranca Parkway
770 Building G, Suite 107
772 Phone: +1 714-727-9532
774 Internet: info@netix.com
776 In addition, you might try Wollongong, to see if they have something you
779 ------------------------------
781 Subject: 01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
782 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>, Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl>
783 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
785 To order a copy by mail, see the section on how to get MH by mail
786 (see "Where can I get MH?" and "What references exist for MH?").
788 To print your own copy, first obtain the MH sources (see "Where can
789 I get MH?") if you don't already have it. Go into the "doc"
790 directory and run "make guide" to create the administrators guide
791 and "make manual" to create a user's manual which includes tutorials
792 and man pages. If the doc directory is empty or is missing the
793 Makefile, you'll have to run "mhconfig MH" in the conf directory so
794 that the documentation with correct local information is created.
796 For properly formatting the documentation (at least the manual
797 pages) you might even have to install MH, because a reference to a
798 tmac.h file in the MH lib directory is made in the manual pages.
800 You can also ftp the ASCII or postscript versions:
802 ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/doc/tutorial.ps.Z 65k
803 ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/doc/ADMIN.ps.Z 56k
804 ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mh/doc/MH.ps.Z (man pages) 261k
805 ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/doc/tutorial.ps.Z
806 ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/doc/ADMIN.ps.Z
807 ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/doc/MH.ps.Z (man pages)
809 Or, you can send a note to mail-server@nluug.nl with a body containing the
812 send /mail/mh/papers-ps/tutorial.ps.Z
814 ------------------------------
816 Subject: 01.07 How should I report bugs?
817 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
818 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
820 Mail them to Bug-MH@ics.uci.edu and be sure to include the output of
821 the -help option as well as what hardware and operating system you
824 ------------------------------
826 Subject: 01.08 !How can I convert from my mailer to MH?
827 From: Mike Sutton <mws115@llcoolj.dayton.saic.com>
828 Date: 7 Jul 1995 10:03:50 GMT
830 The unrmail function will convert rmail format to mbox format.
832 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
833 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
835 If you use one of a mail agent like 'mail', 'mailx', 'elm' or
836 'mush', converting to MH is easy. When you run the 'inc' command,
837 it reads all new messages from the system mailbox into your 'inbox'
838 folder. Those mail agents also have separate files or "folders"
839 that hold messages in the same format as the system mailbox. You
840 can read them with the 'inc -file' command. For example, to read
841 the messages from your 'mbox' mail file into your MH 'inbox' folder,
845 % cp mbox mbox.backup
848 If you see the usual "Incorporating new mail into inbox..." message
849 and a scan listing, the messages probably were converted. Read some
850 or all of them (with the 'show' command) and be sure. The 'inc'
851 won't remove your mbox unless you use '-truncate'.
853 From: Jason R. Mastaler <jason@IS.NET>
854 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
856 You can also specify an alternate folder to inc. Here's how you
857 can convert all your folders en masse:
859 for arg in `cat flist`; do
860 echo "converting $arg"
861 inc +"$arg" -file "$arg" -silent
864 Section D.4 of the MH book's second edition lists two scripts to
865 convert mail files to MH folders: babyl2mh to convert from rmail's
866 BABYL format; vmsmail2mh to convert from VMS's mail (see "What
867 references exist for MH") to see where the book's examples can be
868 ftped from). These scripts aren't in the third edition but are in
871 From: Vivek Khera <khera@cs.duke.edu>
872 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
874 I rewrote the above script in Perl since the original script doesn't
875 work for some people (see "babyl2mh.pl" below).
877 From: Juergen Nickelsen <nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de>
878 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
880 You can remove the second to last second line ("> $input"), so
881 that the script doesn't zero out your RMAIL file.
883 Another alternative is to replace this line with "inc -file $tmpmbox
884 $folder && > $input", so that the RMAIL is only zeroed if inc
885 successfully incorporated the mail. Finally one could add a switch
886 -z, so that the RMAIL file is only zeroed if the switch is given.
887 See [Appendix "inco."]
889 Date: Sun, 1 May 94 00:00:00 -0800
891 Use the following to convert a BABYL format file to Unix mail
894 ftp://inf.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/gnu/emacs_extras/rmailtovm.el.Z 6k
896 See also MH book second edition (Appendix D).
898 ------------------------------
900 Subject: 02. ***** Building MH *****
901 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
902 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
904 ------------------------------
906 Subject: 02.01 What machines does MH run on?
907 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
908 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
910 If you have a computer running Unix, you can probably run MH.
912 ------------------------------
914 Subject: 02.02 How do I build MH?
915 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
916 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
918 By carefully reading the READ-ME in the root of the source
919 hierarchy, one should not have any trouble building MH.
921 ------------------------------
923 Subject: 02.03 What options should I use?
924 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
925 Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 00:00:00 -0800
927 BERK: Do NOT include the BERK option (in versions 6.7 or later)!
928 BERK breaks the mh-format functions that take apart address lines,
929 for example mbox, from, and friendly. This would really put a crimp
930 on my replcomps file.
932 LOCKF: if you have NFS, you need to lock your mailbox with lockf()
933 so the lock will be honored by all machines on the local network.
934 If you have the lockf() system call, include LOCKF.
936 JQ Johnson <jqj@duff.uoregon.edu> makes the point that one should
937 use this option carefully since it requires a robust lockf() call.
938 For example, this option caused serious problems on his SunOS 4.1.1.
939 He suggested using LOK_BELL instead, and adding "lockstyle: 1" to
942 ATZ: makes your timezones print like "EST" instead of "-0500". Much
943 prettier. --Stephen Gildea <gildea@x.org>
945 However, Tony Landells <ahl@technix.oz.au> replies: "Yes; very
946 pretty. How unfortunate that timezone names are so ambiguous, so
947 that EST can be interpreted, at a minimum, as (American) Eastern
948 Standard Time, (Australian) Eastern Standard Time, or (Australian)
949 Eastern Summer Time (and yes, I think it's dumb having the same
950 acronym for both normal and Summer time, but that's a different
951 problem). While the numeric timezones may not look as nice, they
952 are, at least, reasonably unambiguous. I would urge anyone who ever
953 intends/hopes/expects to use email outside the U.S. to NOT use ATZ
956 At any rate, the conf/examples directory has been updated and
957 contains many examples show you which options are required on your
958 platform and which are optional (in the upcoming version MH 6.8). At
959 any rate, it is recommended that you examine the options in the
960 example configuration files, and read about them in READ-ME.
962 RPATHS: a side-effect is that slocal writes messages to your system
963 maildrop without the MMDF C-A's that separate messages, so your BSD
964 tools like from work.
966 ------------------------------
968 Subject: 02.04 Where can I get POP3?
969 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
970 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
972 MH6.7 (and earlier versions too) include a server for version 3 of POP.
974 ------------------------------
976 Subject: 02.05 Does MH support IMAP?
977 From: John Romine <jromine@ics.uci.edu>
978 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
980 No. MH only supports retrieving mail using POP3. POP3 is on the
981 "standards track"--it is now an elective Internet Draft Standard
982 (see RFC1280 for more details). At this point, IMAP[23] are
983 "experimental, limited use" protocols; it is unlikely that MH will
986 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
987 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
989 I've found several things which might help. First, a definition
990 lifted from the Pine FAQ:
994 IMAP stands for "Internet Message Access Protocol". An IMAP client
995 program on any platform at any location on the Internet can access
996 email folders on an IMAP server. While the messages appear to be
997 local, they reside on the server until the client explicitly moves
998 or deletes them. The IMAP protocol is a superset of POP, containing
999 all POP commands plus more. For a comparison of IMAP and POP, see
1000 the paper Comparing Two Approaches to Remote Mailbox Access: IMAP
1001 vs. POP (in ftp.cac.washington.edu:/mail/imap.vs.pop). IMAP is what
1002 allows Pine (or any other IMAP client) to get to email on a central
1003 campus email server. There are current IETF working groups revising
1004 IMAP and readying it to become an Internet standard. A copy of the
1005 latest IMAP draft may be obtained from
1006 ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/latest-imap-draft. For a list of IMAP
1007 clients, see the file imap.software, in the same directory.
1009 From: David L Miller <dlm@cac.washington.edu>
1010 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
1012 ipop3d from the UW IMAP toolkit can operate in a couple modes. As a
1013 straight POP3 server, it uses the same C-client library as imapd, so
1014 it co-exists comfortably with imapd. It can also operate as a
1015 POP-to-IMAP gateway so that your POP-only clients can access IMAP
1018 ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z 1.0M
1020 From: Mark Crispin <MRC@Panda.COM>
1021 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
1023 The only answer I can give for [how MH users can use IMAP] is that
1024 Pine can read mailboxes in MH format; and that someone might in the
1025 future develop a version of MH that can use IMAP.
1027 ------------------------------
1029 Subject: 02.06 Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc but not slocal?
1030 From: John Romine <jromine@ics.uci.edu>
1031 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
1033 If "mailgroup" is set, inc is made set-group-id to this group name.
1034 Some SYS5 systems want this to be set to "mail". Set this if
1035 /usr/spool/mail (or /usr/mail) is not world-writable. These
1036 changes were contributed by Peter Marvit, and "inc" is very careful
1037 about its use of the set-gid privilege.
1039 Note that slocal doesn't know how to deal with this, and will not
1040 work under these systems; just making it set-group-id will open a
1041 security hole (since it doesn't know when to drop the set-gid
1042 privileges). If you're using "mailgroup", you should remove slocal
1043 (and its man page) from your system.
1045 Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent.
1046 Archie can help you find where they are kept.
1048 ------------------------------
1050 Subject: 02.07 !How can I build MH on Solaris 2?
1051 From: Neil Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu>,
1052 Scott K. Hutton <shutton@habanero.ucs.indiana.edu>,
1053 Casper H.S. Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
1054 Date: 20 Jun 1995 08:18:23 GMT
1056 First, don't use the BSD compatible stuff. Make sure that the Sun
1057 or GNU compiler appear before the BSD compiler in your PATH.
1059 Second, don't use GNU make. Make sure that the Sun make appears
1060 before the GNU make in your PATH.
1062 Use conf/examples/solaris2.sun.com and fix the paths, if necessary.
1063 Optionally change the following to use the GNU compiler, to perform
1064 optimization, and to create shared libraries.
1067 ccoptions -O -g -msupersparc
1070 Incorporate the diff in (see "mhn.c patch 1").
1072 Optionally incorporate the Content-Length header fix. (See "How can
1073 I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?")
1075 Linking with /usr/ucblib/libucb.so is incompatible with including
1078 When compiling, you can ignore the following warning:
1080 fmtcompile.c", line 238: warning: semantics of "/" change in ANSI C;
1083 If you're using AFS, you'll have to replace any occurrence of "ln"
1084 with "ln -s" wherever the make dies when it tries to make a link
1085 "on a different file system."
1087 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 94 00:00:00 -0800
1089 Unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1091 From: Gary Strand <strandwg@ncar.ucar.edu>
1092 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
1094 To cure slocal's Segmentation Fault problems, I decided to try 'cc'
1095 instead of 'gcc' (an alleged no-no under Solaris) and MH built just
1096 fine, and it's working perfectly.
1098 From: "Jason R. Mastaler" <mastaler@valhalla.mindspring.com>
1099 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 17:35:13 -0400
1101 Don't use "ldoptions -s" with gcc. It may cause the compile to fail
1104 gcc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 11
1107 ------------------------------
1109 Subject: 02.08 !How can I build MH on Linux?
1110 From: Brandon S. Allbery <bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org>
1111 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 16:18:50 -0800
1113 The current patch is the first one listed below. The old patch only
1114 works with libc-4.4, which is no longer used. The current patch is
1115 split into two pieces, as with the previous patch, but now the
1116 divisions are purely functional: the first diff enables MH to
1117 compile, the second allows creation of a shared library. [Ed: The
1118 paths are up to date, but I think the info in this paragraph is
1121 Recent versions of GNU make choke on MH's makefiles. Unfortunately,
1122 the shared library patches depend on "export". If you have problems
1123 building MH, remove the "export" lines from all of the makefiles (if
1124 you applied the shared library patches) and try using BSD pmake
1127 If you don't want to compile MH, the second file contains
1128 pre-compiled ready-to-run binaries which can simply be extracted in
1131 ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Mail/readers/mh-6.8.3-diffs.tar.gz
1132 ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Mail/readers/mh-6.8.3-bin.tar.gz
1134 The sizes are 650k and 22k respectively.
1136 Note that these files are occasionally "cleaned up" by accident so
1137 please let me know if they are missing.
1139 ------------------------------
1141 Subject: 02.09 +How can I build MH on IRIX?
1142 From: Arne K. Frick <frick@info.uni-karlsruhe.de>
1143 Date: 06 Jun 1995 18:30:01 GMT
1145 There is a file at viz.tamu.edu:/pub/sgi (see FAQ) containing a diff
1146 and sample configuration. If you cannot locate it, I can mail it to
1147 you. Note, however, that I had tremendous difficulties with them
1150 1. Be sure to use /bin/make, NOT GNU make.
1151 2. patch vomits over the diff. You can get around this by increasing the
1153 3. The Makefile target for the shared library doesn't work. I had to do it
1156 But I'm stuck compiling mhn.c.
1158 From: Shankar Unni <shankar@sgi.com>
1159 Date: 9 Jun 1995 01:53:48 GMT
1161 The fix for compiling mhn.c is in (see "mhn.c patch 1") below.
1163 From: John Jack Repenning <jackr@dblues.engr.sgi.com>
1164 Date: 25 Jul 1995 02:35:41 GMT
1166 (See "IRIX config file") below.
1168 ------------------------------
1170 Subject: 02.10 +How can I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?
1171 From: Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM>
1172 Date: 4 Oct 1995 09:05:42 GMT
1174 Apply ftp://ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris/mh-6.8.3-diff to your MH
1175 distribution and add the configuration option "CONTENT_LENGTH". It
1176 also includes the si_ fix in (see "mhn.c patch 1").
1178 ------------------------------
1180 Subject: 02.11 +How do I build MH on HPUX?
1181 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1182 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:02:48 -0800
1184 If you find that your zotnet/tws directory isn't compiling, upgrade
1185 your MH (see "What is the current version/status of MH?") which
1186 includes fixes to lexedit.sed.
1188 ------------------------------
1190 Subject: 02.12 +Can I prevent adding the local hostname to addresses behind firewalls?
1191 From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
1192 Date: 18 Aug 1995 23:51:48 -0400
1194 If you're behind a firewall and sendmail gives you fits because MH
1195 adds the node name or site name to each address in the To: and CC:
1196 fields, you'll need to modify the MH source.
1198 The relevant source has to do with the REALLYDUMB option in
1199 sbr/addrsbr.c. Essentially what you need to do is set it up so
1200 REALLYDUMB is turned on (normally, it's turned off if you have MMDF
1201 or SMTP turned on). This will do what you want. I did this at our
1202 site, and it's been working great. The stuff for REALLYDUMB starts
1205 [Ed. It seems to me that this is a common problem, but that there
1206 should be a better solution, like adding a "localname" entry to
1207 $MHLIB/mtstailor. Please let me know if you can improve upon this.]
1209 ------------------------------
1211 Subject: 03. ***** Scanning & Reading *****
1212 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1213 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
1215 ------------------------------
1217 Subject: 03.01 What do I do if scan shows the wrong date?
1218 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1219 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
1223 ------------------------------
1225 Subject: 03.02 !How would one go about reading Usenet with MH?
1226 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1227 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 12:32:09 -0800
1229 You can post via mail. Send your article to
1230 news.group.name@#{news.demon.co.uk,{crs4gw,berlioz}.crs4.it} (e.g.,
1231 comp.mail.mh@news.demon.co.uk). To cross-post, send mail to the
1232 user "mail2news" instead and add a legitimate Newsgroups field.
1234 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
1235 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
1237 You can save articles in the news readers for later perusal with MH.
1239 First, create a symbolic link from your mail directory (e.g., usenet) to
1240 your news directory (e.g., "ln -s ~/News ~/Mail/usenet"). You can then
1241 treat your news directory as a mail folder. Thus, to select a news
1242 group, use "folder +usenet/comp/mail/mh".
1244 To set the default save location correctly in rn, use:
1248 or in your nn presentation sequence:
1250 news.announce. +$F/$N
1255 If there's news spooled on your machine (that is, not via NNTP) then
1256 you can read a newsgroup with commands like:
1258 show first +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh
1262 You can also use sequences to keep track of what you've read. MH
1263 will automatically set a "cur" sequence in each newsgroup you read
1264 that way. So, to continue reading the newsgroup sometime later,
1265 after you've read some other folder, you can do:
1267 next +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh
1269 and you'll read the next (new) article (if any) in that newsgroup.
1271 Note that this can eventually make your private context file pretty
1272 huge; if there's a group you don't read often, you can remove its
1273 context entries with a command like:
1275 rmf +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh
1277 Don't try that on a folder full of mail (a folder that isn't
1278 read-only), though... in that case, it'll remove all the messages!
1280 I haven't looked into posting. It seems like it shouldn't be hard.
1281 You could set up a "sendproc" that would look at outgoing email
1282 messages. If the message had a Newsgroups: header field, your
1283 sendproc could call inews(1) instead of post(8). I haven't seen
1284 much in the MH manpages or documentation about sendprocs (though I
1285 haven't looked for a couple of years...). See the "mysend"
1286 script in the MH book section 7.1.4 (13.13).
1288 A threaded news reader like trn or tin is so much nicer, though,
1289 that reading news with MH may not be worth the hassle.
1291 See also MH book section 9.9 (8.7).
1293 From: Stephen Gildea <gildea@x.org>
1294 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
1296 Although news readers are better, if one really wants to use
1297 MH, bbc will do the job. For example, "bbc comp.mail.mh" reads this
1298 newsgroup. To enable bbc, you have to specify "bboards" when you
1301 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
1303 See mhunify in (see also "What other MH software is
1306 ------------------------------
1308 Subject: 03.03 How can I search through multiple folders?
1309 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
1310 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 00:00:00 -0800
1312 Recurse through the folders (in csh and sh):
1314 % foreach f (`folders -f`) $ for f in `folders -f`
1315 ? pick [switches] +$f > pick [switches] +$f
1318 Or create a folder that contains links to all messages (in csh and sh):
1320 % foreach f (`folders -f | grep -v -x ln`)
1321 ? refile -src +$f -link all +ln
1324 $ for f in `folders -f | grep -v -x ln`
1325 > do refile -src +$f -link all +ln
1328 and in the future, refile messages with "refile +folder +ln". To
1329 find something, use:
1331 % pick [switches] +ln
1333 See MH book sections 8.2.9 (7.2.9), 8.9.3 (7.8.3).
1335 ------------------------------
1337 Subject: 03.04 Why don't MH format commands such as %(friendly) work?
1338 From: Anthony Baxter <anthony@aaii.oz.au>
1339 Date: Sun, 1 May 94 00:00:00 -0800
1341 The BERK option disables address parsing and therefore functions
1342 such as %(friendly). Recompile MH without the BERK option.
1344 ------------------------------
1346 Subject: 03.05 Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?
1347 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
1348 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
1350 It's not the fault of the "show" command or of MH in general. It's
1351 your system's configuration. Check the mhn_defaults file in your MH
1352 library directory; if it doesn't have defaults for all content types,
1353 add them. Or, if you can't (or shouldn't) change mhn_defaults, you
1354 can put default entries in your MH profile file for those content types.
1356 Here's the part of the mhn(1) manpage that explains how content types
1359 First, mhn will look for an entry of the form:
1361 mhn-show-<type>/<subtype>
1363 to determine the command to use to display the content. If this
1364 isn't found, mhn will look for an entry of the form:
1368 to determine the display command. If this isn't found, mhn has
1371 mhn-show-text/plain: %pmoreproc '%F'
1372 mhn-show-message/rfc822: %pshow -file '%F'
1374 If neither apply, mhn will check to see if the message has a
1375 application/octet-stream content with parameter "type=tar". If
1376 so, mhn will use an appropriate command. If not, mhn will
1379 So, add defaults that cover the types MH doesn't handle right now (or
1380 doesn't handle the way you want it to). Your defaults will override
1381 corresponding defaults in the mhn_defaults file. For example, if you
1382 don't have an HTML editor/browser on your system, you could tell MH to
1383 use the "less" paginator for HTML message parts:
1385 mhn-show-text/x-html: less %F
1387 You can put that line in your MH profile.
1389 You can even set different defaults for different terminal types (say,
1390 your VT100 at home and your X setup at work). Make a file in the same
1391 format as mhn_defaults; store its pathname in the MHN environment
1392 variable. Add a test to your shell setup file (.profile, .login) that
1393 tests the value of the TERM variable -- and, if you have an mhn setup
1394 file for that terminal type, store its pathname in the MHN variable.
1396 See also MH book sections 6.2.3, 9.4.4, 9.4.5.
1398 From: Michael K. Neylon <mneylon@engin.umich.edu>
1399 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
1401 If you are not using the X Window System, you may have to add this
1402 line to your MH profile:
1404 mhn-charset-iso-8859-1: /bin/sh -c '%s'
1406 ------------------------------
1408 Subject: 03.06 Can I get show not to run "less" so much on MIME messages?
1409 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1410 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
1412 If you say, "show all," and one of the messages was a MIME message,
1413 your pager will be run several times on each message, rather than
1414 once on all the messages as a whole. If you find this annoying, set
1415 the environment variable NOMHNPROC:
1417 % setenv NOMHNPROC "" # csh
1418 $ NOMHNPROC= # sh and bash
1421 See also MH book sections 6.2.3, 6.2.10.
1423 ------------------------------
1425 Subject: 03.07 Why do I get "mhn: don't know how to display content"?
1426 From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
1427 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 94 00:00:00 -0800
1429 MH 6.8.3 has a bug where it will not handle multipart/foo correctly
1430 if it doesn't know about foo. This patch (see "mhn.c patch 2"
1431 below) tells it to treat such things as if they were
1434 (See also "Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?").
1436 ------------------------------
1438 Subject: 03.08 +How can I automatically delete MH backup files?
1439 From: mccammaa@expt05.stp.xfi.bp.com (Andy McCammont)
1440 Date: 22 May 95 06:27:36 -0400
1442 On System V system, add this to your crontab. If you don't have
1443 one, put this in a file, and run "crontab file". If your system
1444 does not support personal crontab files, get your system
1445 administrator to add an equivalent line to the system crontab file
1446 or daily clean-up script. Note that some administrators set the
1447 prefix character to '#'.
1449 # Remove old MH files
1450 5 5 * * * find /PATH/TO/HOME/Mail -name ",*" -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
1452 ------------------------------
1454 Subject: 03.09 +Fixing "cannot fopen and lock /var/spool/mail/(user)".
1455 From: alhy@MAILBOX.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
1456 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 11:11:13 -0700
1458 Often, this is caused by an NFS file lock. Don't ask me how it got
1459 there in the first place. To remove the file lock, do the following:
1461 # cd /var/spool/mail
1462 # cp user /tmp/user.tmp; rm user # save mail; remove locked file
1463 # chown user /tmp/user.tmp # allow user to inc old mail
1465 user% inc -file user.tmp # incorporate user's old mail
1467 Any mail that you receive in the fraction of a second that the second
1468 set of commands takes will be lost.
1470 ------------------------------
1472 Subject: 03.10 +Can I read my mail with a Web browser?
1473 From: "Patrick A. Coronato" <coronato@me216.teb.allied.com>
1474 Date: 8 Sep 1995 16:36:03 GMT
1476 There are two programs that I know of that will convert a Unix
1477 mailbox into a threaded set of HTML documents. They both sort by
1478 author, date, and thread and can be read by a WWW reader. Hypermail
1479 from EIT works well but only supports Unix mailbox format and
1480 doesn't appear to support MIME.
1482 http://www.eit.com:80/software/hypermail/
1484 Another program, called MHonArc, by Earl Hood from Convex, will
1485 definitely read MH mailboxes as well as Unix mailboxes, create HTML
1486 "archives" and will also sort by date, thread and author and has
1487 support for MIME. Also, MHonArc is written in the Perl (version 4)
1488 language. (You should go to this site if nothing more than to see the
1491 http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html
1493 ------------------------------
1495 Subject: 04. ***** Filing *****
1496 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1497 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
1499 ------------------------------
1501 Subject: 04.01 Can I append MH messages to a Unix mailbox format file?
1502 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1503 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
1505 Yes, see $MHLIB/packmbox.
1507 ------------------------------
1509 Subject: 04.02 Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file?
1510 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1511 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
1513 To convert your MH folders to BABYL folders, first run the following script
1514 on your Mail directory.
1521 folder=`basename $f`
1522 echo -n packing $folder ...
1525 mv msgbox Mail-rmail/$folder
1529 This assumes you don't have nested folders. Your rmail folders will be
1530 left in $HOME/Mail-rmail in MMDF format which rmail can read. Then run
1531 rmail-input for each folder, which converts each folder into BABYL format.
1533 Be sure not to append any messages before they are converted from MMDF
1534 to BABYL, since there may be really strange results.
1536 ------------------------------
1538 Subject: 04.03 Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?"
1539 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
1540 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
1542 There is a line length limit in this file. When sequences are
1543 unbroken (without gaps in numbering), that makes short entries in
1544 the .mh_sequences file, like this:
1548 But when there are lots of numbering gaps, the entry gets long:
1550 inftex: 76 79-81 87 95-96 105 109 120 124 135 141 158 163...
1552 That's when you run into problems, and why it's good to keep the
1553 folder packed when you can. Simply run "folder -pack +folder".
1555 If you're refiling a lot of messages in a large folder, you might
1556 not be able to use sequences. Use backquotes to give the message
1557 numbers directly to "refile". For example:
1559 refile +tex/info-tex `pick -to info-tex`
1561 That can still generate a long list of arguments to the "refile" command,
1562 and some Unixes can't handle that. In that case, use xargs(1):
1564 pick -to info-tex | xargs refile +tex/info-tex
1566 If worse comes to worst, fire up a Bourne shell and use a "while" loop:
1568 pick -to info-tex | fmt | while read nums; do
1569 refile +tex/info-tex $nums
1572 The fmt(1) command breaks long lines into manageable chunks of 72
1573 characters or so, splitting arguments at whitespace. When you redirect
1574 the input of a while loop, a "read" command will read the incoming text
1575 and store it in a shell variable line by line. This is a quick-&-dirty
1576 way to write xargs(1) if you don't have it.
1578 ------------------------------
1580 Subject: 04.04 How can you save News articles into an MH folder?
1581 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
1582 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
1584 If your newsreader handles backquotes on its command line, you can use
1585 the mhpath command. For instance, if your "save" command is "s":
1587 s `mhpath new +somefolder`
1589 Or if your newsreader lets you define your own commands, as in shell
1590 aliases, you could define that as a command.
1592 If your newsreader can pipe an article to the standard input of a
1593 program, use the "rcvstore" command (in the MH library). For instance,
1594 if your "pipe" command is "|":
1596 | $MHLIB/rcvstore +somefolder
1598 Of course, you can also put that in a little shell script.
1600 ------------------------------
1602 Subject: 04.05 +Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
1603 From: glimpse@cs.arizona.edu
1604 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 17:14:00 -0800
1606 Glimpse is a very powerful indexing and query system that allows you
1607 to search through all your files very quickly. It can be used by
1608 individuals for their personal file systems as well as by
1609 organizations for large data collections.
1611 ftp://cs.arizona.edu/glimpse
1612 http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu:1994/
1614 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1615 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 17:10:59 -0800
1617 For those of lesser means, I have three shell scripts for archiving,
1618 seeking, and extracting MH messages that I have been using for
1619 almost 10 years. Send mail if interested. Note that I intend to
1620 switch to Glimpse if I get a moment.
1622 ------------------------------
1624 Subject: 04.06 +How can I remove duplicate messages?
1625 From: jerry@ora.com (Jerry Peek)
1626 Date: 20 Nov 95 18:51:24 GMT
1628 The easiest way I know of is to sort the folder by the Message-ID
1629 field using the sortm(1) command.
1631 After the sort, each message should be next to its duplicates in the
1632 folder. Use a script (shell, Perl, etc.) to weed out the
1633 duplicates. (See "Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)").
1635 The Perl script in (see "Removing dupicate messages (Perl)) does not
1636 require that you first sort the folder.
1638 ------------------------------
1640 Subject: 05. ***** Composing & Replying *****
1641 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1642 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
1644 ------------------------------
1646 Subject: 05.01 Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one?
1647 From: Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM>
1648 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
1650 I carefully reconfigured and rebuilt MH from scratch and the problem
1653 ------------------------------
1655 Subject: 05.02 How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"?
1656 From: Alan Thew <qq11@liv.ac.uk>, Mike Schwager <schwager@cs.uiuc.edu>,
1657 James T Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com>
1658 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
1660 When making a reply, specify a filter file on the command line:
1662 repl -filter repl.format
1664 This filter file must be in your MH mail directory (usually "Mail",
1665 in your home directory). Here are a couple of example repl.format
1668 overflowtext="",overflowoffset=0
1669 message-id:nocomponent,formatfield=\
1670 "In message %{text}you write:"
1671 body:component=">",overflowtext=">",overflowoffset=0
1675 overflowtext="",overflowoffset=0
1676 date:component="Your message dated",formatfield=\
1677 "%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(pretty{text})%>"
1678 body:component=">",overflowtext=">",overflowoffset=0
1680 Setting overflowoffset to 0 keeps MH from doing anything to
1681 extra-long lines in the headers. In the body, however, this
1682 behavior is overridden so that long lines are automatically broken
1683 and a ">" is inserted before every line. You could put almost
1684 whatever you want between those quotes, although the "standard" ">"
1685 makes it easier to read notes that have been included several times.
1686 The examples differ with the descriptive text that is inserted
1687 before the included body.
1689 It is suggested not to use the "prompter" editor in this case, since
1690 it is likely that you'll not want to use all of the included
1691 message. Indeed, it is proper etiquette to edit out all unnecessary
1692 include verbiage so readers don't have to wade through the morass to
1693 read your pearls of wisdom.
1695 WARNING: the '>' appears on the first line ONLY in versions prior
1696 to 6.7.2. Upgrade to MH 6.8.
1698 See also MH book sections 7.8.4 (6.7.4), 7.8.5 (6.7.5), 10.4.1 (9.4.1).
1700 ------------------------------
1702 Subject: 05.03 How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself?
1703 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1704 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
1706 Add these two lines to your MH profile file:
1708 Alternate-Mailboxes: user@host1, user@host2, ...
1711 The Alternate-Mailboxes also tells scan which messages are really
1712 from you so that it can place the recipient in the scan line instead
1715 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
1716 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
1718 To get one copy, you can either:
1720 - Take out the "-nocc me"... then you'll get exactly one copy of
1721 your replies (assuming all your addresses are listed in
1722 Alternate-Mailboxes), or
1724 - (See also "How can I save a copy of all messages I send?").
1726 For more info, see the man pages comp(1),
1727 repl(1), forw(1), dist(1) and mh-mail(5).
1729 See also MH book sections 7.8.2 (6.7.2), 9.8 (8.6).
1731 From: Alec Wolman <wolman@crl.dec.com>
1732 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
1734 Listing the name of a mailing list in Alternate-Mailboxes is also a
1735 convenient way to AVOID automatically cc-ing a mailing list when
1736 replying to a person who sent the message to the mailing-list.
1738 ------------------------------
1740 Subject: 05.04 How can I include my signature?
1741 From: Eric W. Ziegast <ziegast@uunet.uu.net>,
1742 Hardy Mayer <hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu>
1743 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
1745 There are several ways.
1749 1a) In your Mail directory, create files that
1750 include your signature into the format of the message.
1759 Eric Ziegast ziegast@uunet.uu.net
1760 UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast
1763 body:component="> ",compwidth=2
1765 :Eric Ziegast ziegast@uunet.uu.net
1766 :UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast
1768 To use the replfmt file, add the following to your ~/.mh_profile:
1770 repl: -filter replfmt
1772 When comp is used, your signature is already there along with my
1773 headers. When repl is used, the mhl program takes the body of
1774 the letter you're replying to, prepends '> ' to each line and
1775 then adds your signature at the end (available after version
1778 1b) Create an "editor" which can be called from whatnow to add the
1779 signature when desired or create a frontend to post (use the
1780 .mh_profile line "postproc: postproc" to call it) that always
1781 appends the .signature file before calling post to mail the
1782 message. David J. Fiander <david@golem.uucp>, David A.
1783 Truesdell <truesdel@nas.nasa.gov> and Tom Wilmore
1784 <sastjw@unx.sas.com> have sample scripts to do these.
1786 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
1787 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 00:00:00 -0800
1789 1c) Section 7.1.4 (13.13) of the MH book lists mysend, a sendproc
1790 script to process a message after "What now? send" (see "What
1791 references exist for MH" to see where the book's examples can
1794 2) Using your editor. If you use vi, you can use something like:
1796 map S :r ~/.signature
1798 to load your signature out of .signature every time you
1801 3) Use your windowing system. xterm, for example, can provide key
1802 and button mappings for the utterly lazy.
1804 4) If you use Emacs with mh-e:
1806 4a) C-c C-s will append the signature.
1808 From: Andre Srinivasan <andre@neuronet.pitt.edu>
1809 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
1811 4b) Add the following to your .emacs file:
1813 (add-hook 'mh-compose-letter-function
1817 (goto-char (point-max))
1819 (mh-insert-signature)))))
1821 This hook is called after the draft buffer has been initialized,
1822 but before you have a chance to type anything.
1824 From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
1825 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
1827 Tired of the same old signature? Want different signatures for
1828 different newsgroups? Here's a program to help you out.
1830 The way it works is to have .signature be a named pipe, so if you
1831 don't have named pipes, just say 'n'.
1833 The sigrand program then feeds stuff down the pipe every time someone
1834 wants to read it. That way it works for more than just news, but
1835 for anything that wants to read your .signature, like a mailer.
1837 You have your choice of three kinds of signatures:
1839 1) random (short) fortune from "fortune -s"; you get these if
1840 you don't have a global sig file.
1841 2) random fortune from ~/News/SIGNATURES [global sig file]
1842 3) random fortune form ~/News/(newsgroup)/SIGNATURES [local sig files]
1844 Send mail if interested.
1846 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
1848 See also the Signature FAQ (see "What references exist for MH?").
1850 ------------------------------
1852 Subject: 05.05 How do I call my editor with arguments?
1853 From: John Romine <jromine@ics.uci.edu>
1854 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
1856 Set your editor (in .mh_profile) to the following shellscript.
1859 exec <youreditor> <yourargs> "$@"
1862 From: Ray Nickson <Ray.Nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
1863 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
1865 You might find it useful to make <youreditor> $EDITOR, or to use
1866 different arguments depending on your EDITOR environment variable.
1868 ------------------------------
1870 Subject: 05.06 How can I digestify messages in a folder for mail to another user?
1871 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>, Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1872 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
1876 forw [-digest tmp] [-form forwcomps] [-filter mhl.digest]
1879 These messages can be un-digestified :-) by the MH burst(1) program.
1881 See also MH book sections 7.9.7 (6.8.7), 8.10 (7.9).
1883 From: Glenn Vanderburg <glv@utdallas.edu>
1884 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
1886 There's another way, which is better if the recipient understands MIME.
1888 forw -mime messages +folder
1890 (Make sure that you either have "automhnproc: mhn" in your mh
1891 profile, or type "edit mhn" to whatnow before you send it.)
1893 This bundles each message in a MIME message/rfc822 part, and then
1894 bundles the whole mess up in a multipart/digest part. You can still
1895 add your own text at the beginning. The MH burst program can also
1896 understand these messages and split them apart with no problem.
1897 This works beautifully with MIME-capable mail readers, especially
1900 ------------------------------
1902 Subject: 05.07 How can I change my return address?
1903 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1904 Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 00:00:00 -0800
1906 If you find that your mailer creates a From header that others have
1907 trouble replying to, you can add a Reply-To header to override the
1908 From header in replies.
1910 Copy the components and replcomps files which are normally found in
1911 $MHLIB into your Mail directory and add a line like the following
1912 after the Subject header replacing my address with your address:
1914 Reply-To: wohler@newt.com
1916 ------------------------------
1918 Subject: 05.08 !How can I change my From header?
1919 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
1920 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:40:50 -0800
1922 With either of the following solutions, you'll need to add an
1923 Alternate-Mailboxes entry in your MH profile so that scan prints
1924 "To: recipient" rather than your faked address. For example, if
1925 your real address is wohler@gbr.newt.com and you've added a From
1928 From: Bill Wohler <bill.wohler@newt.com>
1930 you'll add the following to .mh_profile:
1932 Alternate-Mailboxes: bill.wohler@newt.com
1934 From: Bill Wisner <wisner@netcom.com>
1935 Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 00:00:00 -0800
1937 If you're just interested in changing the hostname, add a line to
1940 localname: desired_host_name
1942 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
1943 Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 00:00:00 -0800
1945 Just put a "From:" header in your "components", "replcomps" and
1946 "forwcomps" files. MH will add a "Sender:" header with what it thinks
1947 is your real address, but (almost) no one cares about the "Sender:"
1950 ------------------------------
1952 Subject: 05.09 !How can I save a copy of all messages I send?
1953 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>, Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
1954 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
1956 Copy the components and replcomps files which are normally found in
1957 $MHLIB into your Mail directory and add a line like the following
1958 after the cc header:
1962 All outgoing messages will then be saved in the +out folder. If you
1963 make a distcomps file, it needs "Resent-Fcc:".
1965 From: David S. Goldberg <dsg@linus.mitre.org>
1966 Date: 30 Oct 1995 10:23:55 -0500
1968 You can get the Message-ID field by placing the folder in the "Fcc"
1973 to your .mh_profile. Unfortunately, this Message-ID isn't as useful
1974 as sendmail's--it doesn't include the date.
1976 ------------------------------
1978 Subject: 05.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified?
1979 From: Andy Rabagliati <andyr@wizzy.com>
1980 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
1982 My suggestion would be to run Tom Christiansen's rfi script. If you
1983 cannot find it on *.sources archive sites (please try first), I can
1986 One good idea would be to write a whatnowproc that files the mail
1987 based on a procmail or deliver file. Then you can use the same file
1988 for incoming and outgoing mail.
1990 ------------------------------
1992 Subject: 05.11 !Can I post secure/encryped mail?
1993 From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
1994 Date: 19 Jun 1995 22:06:37 GMT
1996 A much more robust Perl script I wrote is appended below [Ed: Send a
1997 note to Vivek for the script]. It works its way through aliases,
1998 and avoids problems with full names in the headers.
2000 Here is my mhn profile entry to display the messages.
2002 mhn-show-application/x-pgp: %l pgp -m '%F'
2004 to use the script, after you edit the message, at the What now?
2005 prompt, type "edit pgpmail" for plain ascii encryption or "pgpmail
2006 -m" for a MIME formatted encryption. If you want to add a digital
2007 signature, give the script the -s flag also.
2009 From: Stephen Gildea <gildea@x.org>
2010 Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1995 08:28:45 -0700
2012 There are several packages that support PGP in mh-e:
2014 mailcrypt by Patrick LoPresti <patl@lcs.mit.edu>
2015 and Jin Choi <jsc@mit.edu>. See
2016 http://cag-www.lcs.mit.edu/mailcrypt/ for more info.
2018 pgp.el by Jack Repenning <jackr@dblues.wpd.sgi.com>
2019 ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/pub/pgp-aux/pgp-el.tar.gz
2021 Jack and I have been in communication, so I know that pgp.el will work
2024 From: Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeffo@worf.infonet.net>
2025 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2027 TIS has a free, draft-standard compliant public key system that
2028 works with MH (PEM). Check it out on ftp.tis.com.
2030 From: Kimmo Suominen <kim@tac.nyc.ny.us>
2031 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2033 You could try looking at the URL http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/ and
2034 following the link from the cover page. Everything you need for
2035 PGP to work with MH is there (scripts and mhn entries).
2037 From: mathew@mantis.co.uk
2038 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2040 Excellent stuff. I've tried altering it to conform to
2041 draft-borenstein-pgp-mime-00.txt.
2043 Unfortunately, I can't get mhn to tag PGP-armoured text as
2044 application/pgp; format=text without it insisting on base64 encoding
2045 it. So I can't quite manage to implement the standard. *sigh*
2047 Presumably mhn thinks that anything which isn't text/* must be
2050 From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@sina.tcamc.uh.edu>
2051 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2053 There is an Emacs and MH based mail interface called Mew which,
2054 while still beta, is quite stable and works well. It fully handles
2055 MIME and PGP. Grab it from:
2057 ftp://ftp.aist-nara.ac.jp/pub/elisp/Mew/mew-current.tar.gz
2059 ------------------------------
2061 Subject: 05.12 +How can I send multi-media (MIME) attachments?
2062 From: Brian Exelbierd <bex@ncsu.edu>
2063 Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 08:05:55 -0400
2067 1. Compose a letter using comp.
2069 2. When you get to a point where you want to include a MIME attachment, type
2070 the following to include a GIF image (note: the '#' must be in
2073 #image/gif [Pictures at an Exhibition] /usr/lib/pictures/exhibition.gif
2075 3. Finish your letter, adding more text or attachments as needed.
2077 4. Save your letter and exit the editor. At the Whatnow prompt
2078 type "edit mhn". mhn will automatically format your letter with
2079 the MIME attachments leaving the original letter in ,##,orig
2080 where ## is the letter number.
2082 5. Type "send" at the Whatnow prompt, and poof, you have just sent
2083 MIME mail. I strongly recommend you practice sending yourself
2086 For more information, see the mhn(1) man page, Chapter 3 in the MH
2088 ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types
2089 for a list of allowed media types in addition to image/gif.
2091 ------------------------------
2093 Subject: 05.13 +What's the best way to send mail to a long list of people?
2094 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2095 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 07:53:53 -0700
2097 There are three ways to keep the list of members from appearing in
2100 If you're planning on mailing to these people regularly, the best
2101 way is to create an alias in /usr/lib/aliases. That way, recipients
2102 can send and reply to the list as well.
2104 The other two ways allow you to manage the list privately, but the
2105 recipients cannot send to the list (unless you set something up with
2106 your deliver or procmail script). One is with a group list. It
2109 To: All-members: member1, member2, member3, ..., membern;
2111 The recipients see this:
2115 You can make this an MH alias as well.
2117 The second way is to use a blind carbon copy, like this:
2119 To: your-address-here
2120 Bcc: member1, member2, member3, ..., membern
2122 The recipients see this:
2124 To: your-address-here
2126 ------- Blind-Carbon-Copy
2128 Content of message, with headers
2130 Or you could also use the undocumented Dcc field which is used like
2131 the Bcc field, but doesn't inject the "Blind-Carbon-Copy." Warning:
2132 (See "What is the Dcc header?")
2134 ------------------------------
2136 Subject: 05.14 +What is the Dcc header?
2137 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 09:46:37 -0700
2138 From: John Romine <jromine@yoyodyne.ICS.UCI.EDU>
2140 The Dcc (Distribution Carbon Copy) field behaves much like the Bcc
2141 field, but does not add the "Blind-Carbon-Copy" notice. This header
2142 is removed before posting the message,and a copy of the message is
2143 distributed to each listed address. This could be considered a form
2144 of Blind Carbon Copy which is best used for sending to an address
2145 which would never reply (such as an auto-archiver).
2147 People should not be using Dcc as a substitute-Bcc to send to other
2148 people. When users use Dcc as a substitute for Bcc, there is *no*
2149 indication to the "blind" recipients that they have received a blind
2150 copy. If those recipients should reply (and they have no indication
2151 why they shouldn't), the original author could be very embarassed
2154 ------------------------------
2156 Subject: 05.15 +How can I make sense of the replcomps file?
2157 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2158 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:25:14 -0800
2160 The best thing to do is curl up with the mh-format(5) man page, or
2161 Section 11.2 of the MH book. Both of these will explain the
2162 following replcomps file. Don't start with the first four
2163 lines--the latter group of lines are much easier to understand.
2165 %(lit)%(formataddr %<{reply-to}%?{from}%?{sender}%?{return-path}%>)\
2166 %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr To: )\n%>\
2167 %(lit)%(formataddr{to})%(formataddr{cc})%(formataddr(me))\
2168 %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )\n%>\
2169 Organization: Newt Software
2170 %<{fcc}Fcc: %{fcc}\n%>\
2171 %<{subject}Subject: Re: %{subject}\n%>\
2172 %<{date}In-reply-to: Your message of "\
2173 %<(nodate{date})%{date}%|%(pretty{date})%>."%<{message-id}
2174 %{message-id}%>\n%>\
2177 In particular, note the following:
2179 \ consider the following line to be part of the current line
2180 \n inject an actual newline into the reply. Note that inserting
2181 a field without a trailing backslash (\) will cause
2182 that field to be emitted in the reply as well.
2183 %<{field}, %?{field}, %|, %> if field exists, else if field exists,
2185 %(command) mh-format commands
2186 %{field} value of the header field inserted at this point
2188 To add new fields, you can either add fields based on whether
2189 certain fields exist in the original message (e.g.,
2190 %<{message-id}...), or hard-code them, as in the Organization field
2191 above. Note that you can either use a "\n\" pair, or nothing at the
2192 end of a line to insert a newline in the reply.
2194 ------------------------------
2196 Subject: 05.16 +How can I convert quoted-printable to 8bit in quoted text in replies?
2197 From: Jarle F. Greipsland <jarle@idt.unit.no>
2198 Date: 22 Aug 1995 10:42:07 +0200
2200 The idea behind the solution is that I need mhn to store the
2201 contents of the mail in the native iso8859-1 format somewhere. I
2202 did this by creating a custom editor that is invoked when I reply to
2203 a message. This editor extracts the body of the message (sorry, no
2204 multipart stuff), indents it with '> ', appends it to the draft
2205 message and invokes the ordinary editor on it. Here are the details:
2207 `isorepl' is a symbolic link from my $HOME/bin-directory to `repl'.
2209 In my .mh_profile I added the following two lines:
2211 isorepl: -form isoreplcomps -editor isoextract
2214 The isoreplcomps file in my Mail-directory contains:
2216 %(lit)%(formataddr %<{reply-to}%?{from}%?{sender}%?{return-path}%>)\
2217 %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr To: )\n%>\
2218 %(lit)%(formataddr{to})%(formataddr{cc})%(formataddr(me))\
2219 %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )\n%>\
2220 %<{fcc}Fcc: %{fcc}\n%>\
2221 %<{subject}Subject: Re: %{subject}\n%>\
2222 %<{date}In-reply-to: Your message of "\
2223 %<(nodate{date})%{date}%|%(pretty{date})%>."%<{message-id}
2224 %{message-id}%>\n%>\
2226 #<text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
2227 %<{message-id}In message %{message-id} %>\
2228 %<{from}%(friendly{from}) writes%|You write%>:
2230 This is a "Usenet-like" quoting style. Modify to suit your own
2231 taste. This form will setup the proper header, as well as the first
2232 line of the new message (In <mmmmbbbb> nnnn writes etc.).
2234 The first editor, `isoextract', looks like this:
2238 # Called from within repl where the "editalt" variable is valid
2240 # Point to a special MHN configuration file (save old one)
2242 MHN=$HOME/`mhparam Path`/isoquotemsg
2245 # Extract message body to "native" format (should be iso-8859-1)
2247 mhn -file "$editalt" -store >> $1 2>/dev/null
2250 myname=`basename $0`
2251 next=`mhparam ${myname}-next`
2252 if [ "x$next" != "x" ]; then
2256 `isoquotemsg' has just one rule; how mhn should store a text message.
2258 mhn-store-text: |sed -e 's/^[ ]*$//' \
2259 -e 's/^\([>|]\)\(.*\)$/>\1\2/' \
2260 -e 's/^\([^>|].*\)$/> \1/'
2262 This tells mhn to pipe the message to stdout, where the sed commands will
2263 do the reformatting/quoting. (Note: the first pair of square brackets
2264 contains a space and a tab.)
2266 So, when I do a `isorepl' to a message, `repl' will create the draft
2267 message with the proper headers (based on the `isoreplcomps' format file),
2268 fire off its first editor, `isoextract', with the name of the draft file as
2269 its parameter. `isoextract' then invokes mhn in a suitable environment,
2270 tells it that it is to use the file $editalt as its source, and orders it
2271 to store the contents. The store-text rule in the custom MHN-file tells it
2272 to just pipe the message (in native iso8859-1 form) through a small set of
2273 sed commands, and `isoextract' uses the normal shell construct to append
2274 the result to the draft file. Then, if there's defined a `isoextract-next'
2275 entry in the .mh_profile, isoextract exec's this editor.
2277 ------------------------------
2279 Subject: 06. ***** Posting *****
2280 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2281 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2283 ------------------------------
2285 Subject: 06.01 What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed".
2286 From: John Romine <jromine@ics.uci.edu>
2287 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2289 If your users are using an AT&T version of "vi", it's exiting with
2290 non-zero status (supposedly a count of the "errors" during the edit).
2291 Move "vi" to "broken_vi" and put it its place :
2294 exec /usr/ucb/broken_vi "$@"
2297 Alternatively, compile MH with the ATTVIBUG option.
2299 Then complain to your vendor that "vi" is broken, and they should
2302 ------------------------------
2304 Subject: 06.02 Can I run my message through a program (e.g., ispell) before sending?
2305 From: Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com>
2306 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2308 It's pretty simple. If your speller is called myspell, use:
2310 What now? edit myspell
2312 MH will actually execute:
2314 myspell /your-mail-draft-directory/draftfile
2316 and give the entire draft message to your speller. The header will
2317 probably be "misspelled," of course, though you might be able to
2318 tell the speller to ignore it--or you could hack up a little shell
2319 script to run the speller on just the message body, then tack the
2320 corrected body back onto the header before sending.
2322 You can automate this some more. For example, if you want your
2323 speller to run after your first edit with "prompter" and also after
2324 you leave the "vi" editor, add these lines to your MH profile:
2326 prompter-next: myspell
2329 Then, at the "What now?" prompt:
2333 your speller will run. For more info, see the mh-profile(5) man
2334 page or section 7.2.1 (6.2.1) of the MH book.
2336 ------------------------------
2338 Subject: 06.03 What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part".
2339 From: Owen Rees <rtor@ansa.co.uk>
2340 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 00:00:00 -0800
2342 You may find that post returns the following message:
2344 post: bad address 'Mr. Foo Bar <fb@somewhere.edu>' - no at-sign
2345 after local-part (Bar), continuing...
2347 The unquoted dot causes "Mr. Foo" to be parsed as the local part of
2348 the address. Either remove the dot, or rewrite the address as
2351 "Mr. Foo Bar" <fb@somewhere.edu>
2352 (Mr. Foo Bar) <fb@somewhere.edu>
2353 (Mr. Foo Bar) fb@somewhere.edu
2355 ------------------------------
2357 Subject: 06.04 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available"
2358 From: Peter Marvit <marvit@hplabs.hpl.hp.com>,
2359 Eric Bracken <bracken@bacon.performance.com>
2360 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:00:00 -0800
2362 The error message itself is essentially correct. However, what this
2363 really means is: MH's post cannot connect to a running sendmail over
2364 an SMTP port (MH configured with SMTP and SENDMTS).
2366 The potential problems:
2368 1. Your local sendmail daemon is dying or not running for some
2371 2. You use BIND and your local nameserver is not responding.
2372 Solution: Delete "/etc/resolv.conf."
2374 3. Your mtstailor has its "servers:" pointing to a non-existent
2375 machine or a machine which is a) not reachable or b) not running
2376 the sendmail daemon.
2378 From: Bdale Garbee <bdale@col.hp.com>,
2379 Eric Bracken <bracken@bacon.performance.com>
2380 Date: Sun, 1 May 94 00:00:00 -0800
2382 4. The hostname localhost [127.0.0.1] is missing from /etc/hosts.
2384 Solution: add an entry for "localhost" to /etc/hosts or your DNS
2385 database or add the following to $MHLIB/mtstailor:
2387 servers: 127.0.0.1 \01localnet
2389 ------------------------------
2391 Subject: 06.05 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender already specified"
2392 From: Paul Pomes <paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
2393 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 00:00:00 -0800
2395 The problem in sendmail is that the RSET after the ONEX does not
2396 reset all the state information. Normally sendmail fork()s after
2397 the Mail from: statement and a RSET causes that child to exit. This
2398 automatically cleans up. If the fork() is suppressed by ONEX, then
2399 the source must be modified to do the cleanup. See "srvrsmtp.c
2400 patch" in the Appendix. If you don't have the sources, modify your
2401 MH sources to not use the ONEX verb.
2403 ------------------------------
2405 Subject: 06.06 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [BHST] no socket opened"
2406 From: Steve Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.la.ca.us>, Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2407 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
2409 Problem happens when there is no interface defined within the tcp
2410 system. A couple of workarounds include:
2412 o Use a hostname (other than the local host) instead of localhost in
2413 the "servers" entry of the "$MHLIB/mtstailor" file.
2414 o Recompile MH with sendmail instead of sendmail/mts (not very elegant).
2416 A better fix would be to define your tcp interface.
2418 Here, you run ifconfig and route (as root) to define the loopback
2419 device and route. You should add them to rc.local so they are
2420 effected at every boot.
2422 # ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 # Linux
2423 # ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 # Sun
2427 If all is well, "ifconfig lo" (or lo0), will show something like this
2428 (on my Linux system):
2430 lo Link encap Local Loopback
2431 inet addr 127.0.0.1 Bcast 127.255.255.255 Mask 255.0.0.0
2432 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU 2000 Metric 0
2433 RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overrun 0
2434 TX packets 519 errors 0 dropped 0 overrun 0
2436 and "netstat -r" will show:
2439 Destination net/address Gateway address Flags RefCnt Use Iface
2440 127.0.0.0 * UN 0 519 lo
2442 If you're not on a network and running DNS, your /etc/hosts will
2445 127.0.0.1 your_host_name localhost # loopback address
2447 Note: put your name FIRST on the localhost line. This official name
2448 is used by sendmail to determine your return address.
2450 If you are on a network and running DNS, you might find that putting
2451 your host name in the localhost entry might gum up other things, in
2452 which case you'll want your hostname to have its own proper address.
2454 This might not do it though. David Youatt <dpy@sgi.com> says that
2455 his network was happy but he still had the problem until he upgraded
2456 his system and got the latest revision of sendmail as well. He
2457 says: "Turns out that that the problem I was having seems to be
2458 caused (at least partly, maybe entirely) by the version of sendmail
2459 that is shipped with IRIX 5.2 (sendmail 5.65, I think). The version
2460 shipped w/IRIX 5.3 (in beta) is sendmail 8.6.9 and works fine."
2462 I'm not entirely happy with this section, so please give me some
2463 feedback. If you have this problem, please send me
2464 <wohler@newt.com> a brief description so I'll know which problems
2465 and solutions seem to be the most prevalent.
2467 ------------------------------
2469 Subject: 06.07 How do I fix the "X-Authentication-Warning" header?
2470 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2471 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2473 You get a header like:
2475 X-Authentication-Warning: screamer.rtp.ericsson.se: Host
2476 rcur7.rtp.ericsson.se didn't use HELO protocol
2478 Easy possibilities are: apply the patch to MH that comes with Sendmail
2479 8.X.X and makes it use HELO, or comment out the line that says
2483 in your sendmail.cf.
2485 ------------------------------
2487 Subject: 06.08 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [RPLY] 503 Need MAIL before RCPT"
2488 From: Bjoern Stabell <bjoerns@acm.org>
2489 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2493 clientname: localhost
2495 in the mtstailor file, and that fixed the problem.
2497 ------------------------------
2499 Subject: 06.09 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket"
2500 From: Chuck Mattern <cmattern@mindspring.com>
2501 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2503 If you are running sendmail instead of smail, make sure that all
2504 smtp entries in /etc/inetd.conf are commented out. If you do edit
2505 /etc/inetd.conf, don't forget to run to restart inetd with "kill -1
2508 ------------------------------
2510 Subject: 06.10 Fixing "Sender didn't use the HELO protocol"
2511 From: Terry Manderson <terry@azure.dstc.edu.au>
2512 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2518 to $MHLIB/mtstailor where sender is the name of the machine sending
2519 the message. The error message occurs because newer MTA's require
2520 SMTP's "HELO" command which MH omits in some configurations. When
2521 you add the above line, it forces MH to use the HELO command.
2523 From: Stephan Neuhaus <neuhaus@dfki.uni-sb.de>
2524 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2528 clientname: localhost
2530 in your mtstailor file.
2532 From: Scott Hutton <shutton@habanero.ucs.indiana.edu>
2533 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2535 Alternately, change or comment out
2539 from your sendmail.cf.
2541 ------------------------------
2543 Subject: 06.11 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local
2544 From: "Matthew V. J. Whalen" <whalenm@aol.net>
2545 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2547 Change your "mts" in "conf/MH" from "sendmail/mts" to just
2550 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2551 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2553 The solution above will keep MH from using any SMTP server on your
2554 network. require sendmail to be installed on all machines. You
2555 could take advantage of the "sendmail/mts" option to have MH talk to
2556 a non-local sendmail. Add:
2558 servers <SMTP-server>
2560 It may also be caused by old versions of sendmail.
2562 ------------------------------
2564 Subject: 07. ***** Mail Filters *****
2565 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2566 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2568 ------------------------------
2570 Subject: 07.01 !What mail filters are available?
2571 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2572 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
2574 The list currently includes slocal (included with MH), deliver,
2575 procmail and mailagent. They are briefly described here. Slocal is
2576 probably the most popular by virtue of being included in the
2577 distribution. The next most popular entry is deliver, followed
2578 closely by procmail.
2580 Slocal comes with MH. It can be used to process incoming mail based
2581 on the contents of any of the headers. Actions include filing
2582 messages, running commands, printing messages on your terminal and
2583 so on. The configuration is made in ~/.maildelivery. People seem to
2584 have trouble with slocal bugs, and you can't use it if you don't
2585 have write permission on your system maildrop so a lot of people
2586 have opted for the alternatives, but it's easy to use and comes with
2589 Deliver can run any script or program (called ~/.deliver), so you
2590 really can do anything you want to incoming mail. One feature that
2591 it sports that no other does is that you can install it as a local
2592 mailer in place of /bin/mail. If it's the local mailer, you don't
2593 need to have a .forward--~/.deliver is run anyway. In addition, it
2594 allows the system administrator to write some programs to filter
2595 everybody's mail. It came with my Linux system, so installation was
2598 From: Stephen R. van den Berg <berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
2599 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
2601 Procmail can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort
2602 your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when
2603 subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritizing your
2604 mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival
2605 (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different
2606 types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail
2607 automatically to someone.
2609 ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz 160k
2611 From: Raphael Manfredi <ram@grenoble.hp.com>
2612 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 00:00:00 -0800
2614 "mailagent" is yet another mail filter, written in perl, which will
2615 let you do anything with your mail. It has all the features you may
2616 expect from a filter: mailing lists sorting, forwarding to MTA or to
2617 inews, pre-processing of message before saving into folder, vacation
2618 mode, etc. It was initially written as an Elm-filter replacement,
2619 but has now enough power to also supplant MMDF's
2620 .maildelivery. There is also a support for @SH mail hooks, which
2621 allows you to automatically distribute patches or software via
2624 The mailagent was designed to make mail filtering as easy as it can
2625 be. It is highly configurable and fairly complete. Rules are
2626 specified in a lex-like style, with the full power of perl's regular
2627 expressions. The automaton supports the notion of mode, and header
2628 selection has many magic features built-in, to ease the rule writing
2631 The distribution comes with a set of examples, an exhaustive test
2632 suite, and naturally a detailed manual page. It should be noted that
2633 the mailagent will work even if your system administrator forbids "|
2634 programs" hooks in the ~/.forward, provided you have access to some
2635 sort of cron daemon.
2637 You can get a full email distribution of the latest release by
2638 sending an appropriate command to my own mailagent, such as:
2642 @SH maildist PATH mailagent -
2644 where PATH stands for YOUR email address, i.e. a path from me to
2647 ------------------------------
2649 Subject: 07.02 Why slocal writes messages to system mailbox that from(1) can't read.
2650 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2651 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2653 Upgrade to MH 6.8 and set the RPATHS option. Better yet, use a more
2654 MH-like command instead of from: "scan -file $MAIL".
2656 ------------------------------
2658 Subject: 07.03 Where can I read about slocal and the format of .maildelivery?
2659 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2660 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2662 See the slocal man page.
2664 Here is brief example of a .maildelivery file that stores messages
2665 to babble in a folder and the system mailbox, stores mh-users in a
2666 folder but not the system mailbox, and puts the rest in the system
2669 to mh-users | A "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/mh-users"
2670 cc mh-users | A "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/mh-users"
2671 to babble | R "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/babble"
2672 cc babble | R "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/babble"
2673 default - > ? /usr/spool/mail/wohler
2675 Your .forward file may look like (quotes necessary):
2677 "| $MHLIB/slocal -user your_login"
2679 In some implementations, the "-user your_login" is not needed. If
2680 not, manually running slocal with the flag will produce an error.
2682 See also chapter 12 (11) in the MH book.
2684 Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent.
2685 Archie can help you find where they are kept.
2687 ------------------------------
2689 Subject: 07.04 How do I debug my .maildelivery file?
2690 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2691 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 00:00:00 -0800
2693 Use as many of the following as necessary.
2695 Put a message into a file and call slocal directly on it.
2697 $MHLIB/slocal -user $USER -verbose -debug < test-msg
2699 Modify your .forward to look like:
2701 "|/bin/sh -c 'exec >> /tmp/out 2>&1;
2702 $MHLIB/slocal -user $USER -verbose -debug'"
2704 Or modify a rule in .maildelivery to look like this:
2706 to foo | R "set -xv; exec >/tmp/out 2>&1; $MHLIB/rcvstore +foo"
2708 The previous examples are broken up for readability; the text must
2711 See also MH book section 12.11 (11.11).
2713 ------------------------------
2715 Subject: 07.05 Why isn't slocal working?
2716 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2717 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 00:00:00 -0800
2719 If slocal doesn't appear to be doing anything, run the following
2721 $MHLIB/slocal -user your_login -verbose < file
2723 where "file" is some message in a mail folder. If you get something
2726 .maildelivery: ownership/modes bad (0, 154,154,0100666)
2728 your .maildelivery is writable by too many people. Make it writable
2729 only by you by running "chmod 644 .maildelivery".
2731 See also "How do I debug my .maildelivery file?"
2733 ------------------------------
2735 Subject: 08. ***** mh-e *****
2736 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2737 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2739 ------------------------------
2741 Subject: 08.01 Is there documentation for mh-e?
2742 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2743 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2745 Yes. See "What references exist for MH?".
2747 ------------------------------
2749 Subject: 08.02 How can mail aliases can be expanded in mh-e?
2750 From: Stephen Gildea <gildea@x.org>
2751 Date: Sun, 1 May 94 00:00:00 -0800
2753 Typing C-c C-w will show you the expanded list of recipients.
2755 ------------------------------
2756 Subject: 08.03 !How do I use POP with mh-e?
2757 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2758 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:23:51 -0800
2760 If MH has been compiled with RPOP, then the POP server host either
2761 needs to have your host in /etc/hosts.equiv or in your .rhosts file.
2762 Then add to your MH profile:
2766 given that "cuckoo" is the name of the your POP server.
2768 From: Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
2769 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 00:00:00 -0800
2771 Assuming your POP server is called cuckoo, add an entry to your MH
2772 profile for 'inc' like so:
2774 inc: -noaudit -norpop -noapop -host cuckoo
2776 Add the following to ~/.netrc:
2778 machine cuckoo.domain.name login joeuser password secret
2780 Replace the hostname, login and password with your own, of course.
2781 The hostname probably has to be fully qualified (i.e., include the
2782 full domain name). This example assumes that you can send mail by
2783 other means (e.g., with SMTP).
2785 ------------------------------
2787 Subject: 09. ***** Xmh *****
2788 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2789 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2791 ------------------------------
2793 Subject: 09.01 How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor?
2794 From: Bob Ellison <ellison@sei.cmu.edu>
2795 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2797 The modifications to xmh to support an external editor, annotations,
2798 and an append command can be found in the these places.
2800 ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/xmh-mods-R5-1.7.Z 37k
2801 ftp://ftp.sei.cmu.edu/pub/xmh/xmh-mods-R5-1.7.Z 37k
2802 ftp://ftp.sei.cmu.edu/pub/xmh/xmh-mods-R6-1.0.Z 37k
2804 From: Andrew Wason <aw@bae.bellcore.com>
2805 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2807 As of R5, xmh has a new action proc called XmhShellCommand. A
2808 string parameter will be executed as a shell command with the
2809 currently selected messages as parameters (or the current message if
2810 there are no selected messages).
2812 Using this new action, a couple of shell scripts, a window version
2813 of emacs (e.g. xemacs) and some elisp code, xmh can use emacs as its
2814 editor instead of the built in Athena text widget editor. This
2815 doesn't require any source code changes to xmh. These are included
2816 in the Appendix "Switching xmh's editor".
2818 ------------------------------
2820 Subject: 09.02 Does xmh support subfolders?
2821 From: Steve Malowany <malowany@cenparmi.concordia.ca>
2822 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2824 Yes. Create one by invoking "Create Folder" as usual, and enter
2825 something like: existing-folder/new-sub-folder. You can then access
2826 the subfolder by popping up a menu over the "existing-folder" button
2831 From: John Cooper <jsc@saxon.Eng.Sun.COM>
2832 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2834 The R5 version of xmh does *not* handle nested sub-folders. If you
2835 create a folder as 'grab/some/bandwidth', xmh displays this
2836 folder name for the remainder of the session where it was created,
2837 BUT if you later re-run xmh, the folder is no longer visible to xmh.
2839 See also MH book section 15.6.2 (15.6.2).
2841 ------------------------------
2843 Subject: 09.03 How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh?
2844 From: Len Makin <len@mel.dit.csiro.au>
2845 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2847 Include the following line in your ~/app-defaults/XMh file:
2849 Xmh*replyInsertFilter: "sed 's/^/> /'"
2853 Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter: $MHLIB/mhl -form repl.filter
2855 From: Andy Linton <andy.linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
2856 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2858 Using this means that you can chose to insert the original by use of
2859 the "Insert" button in the Draft message pane. See "How do I
2860 include messages in repl with or without ">"?" to find examples of
2863 See also MH book sections 15.1.4 (15.1.4), 16.3.3 (16.3.3).
2865 ------------------------------
2868 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2869 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2872 MHLIB Where MH support routines and files are kept; usually /usr/lib/mh
2873 or /usr/local/lib/mh.
2874 POP3 Post Office Protocol, RFC 1225
2875 MMDF Multi-channel Memo Distribution Facility
2876 MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, RFC 1521
2877 IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol, RFC 1064, 1176
2878 TIS Trusted Information Systems
2879 PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail
2880 PGP Pretty Good Privacy
2881 SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol (STD 10; RFC 821)
2883 ------------------------------
2885 Subject: Acknowledgments
2886 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
2887 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2889 I'd like to thank the following people for providing ideas on the
2890 layout of this article:
2892 Joe Wells <jbw@bigbird.bu.edu> Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
2893 David Elliott <dce@smsc.sony.com> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
2894 Eugene N. Miya <eugene@nas.nasa.gov>
2897 We are also grateful to the individuals mentioned below and in the
2898 text of this document who have provided answers or other information
2899 to make this a better document. I regret that it is possible that
2900 some names have been accidently omitted. I would also like to thank
2901 all the readers of comp.mail.mh.
2903 Kim F. Storm <storm@olicom.dk> Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
2905 ------------------------------
2907 Subject: Switching xmh's editor
2908 From: Andrew Wason <aw@bae.bellcore.com>
2909 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
2912 # This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line, then unpack
2913 # it by saving it into a file and typing "sh file". To overwrite existing
2914 # files, type "sh file -c". You can also feed this as standard input via
2915 # unshar, or by typing "sh <file", e.g.. If this archive is complete, you
2916 # will see the following message at the end:
2917 # "End of shell archive."
2918 # Contents: README Xmh.ad xmh-command.el xmhcommand xmhemacs
2919 # Wrapped by aw@jello on Fri Nov 15 17:10:34 1991
2920 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb ; export PATH
2921 if test -f 'README' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then
2922 echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'README'\"
2924 echo shar: Extracting \"'README'\" \(1269 characters\)
2925 sed "s/^X//" >'README' <<'END_OF_FILE'
2926 XThis is a short description of what to do with each of the enclosed files.
2929 X Merge this in with your xmh resources. If you already have
2930 X user defined buttons, then you may need to renumber the
2931 X buttons in this resource file.
2934 X Byte compile this file and put it in your GNU emacs load-path.
2938 X Put these somewhere in your path.
2941 XOnce you have installed these, restart the R5 xmh with the new
2942 Xresources. When you press the repl, forw or comp buttons
2943 Xan xemacs window will come up with your draft message.
2945 XOnce you have written your mail, save it and exit GNU emacs (C-xC-c).
2946 XYou will be prompted if you want to send the current message.
2947 XIf you enter 'y', the message will be sent and the output will
2948 Xbe displayed in an emacs window (in case you use -verbose or -snoop).
2949 XThen you will be prompted to exit emacs. Enter 'y' when you are ready.
2951 XIf you answered 'n' when prompted to send the message,
2952 Xthen the draft message will be deleted and emacs will exit.
2954 XYou can modify the Xmh.ad resources to add more buttons.
2955 XAny MH command which accepts "+folder msg" can be used
2956 X(e.g. a replx shell script which includes the body of the
2957 Xmessage being replied to can be bound to a replx button)
2961 Xaw@bae.bellcore.com
2963 if test 1269 -ne `wc -c <'README'`; then
2964 echo shar: \"'README'\" unpacked with wrong size!
2968 if test -f 'Xmh.ad' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then
2969 echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'Xmh.ad'\"
2971 echo shar: Extracting \"'Xmh.ad'\" \(457 characters\)
2972 sed "s/^X//" >'Xmh.ad' <<'END_OF_FILE'
2973 XXmh*CommandButtonCount: 3
2975 XXmh*commandBox.button1.label: repl
2976 XXmh*commandBox.button1.translations:\
2978 X <Btn1Up>: XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y repl) unset()
2980 XXmh*commandBox.button2.label: forw
2981 XXmh*commandBox.button2.translations:\
2983 X <Btn1Up>: XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y forw) unset()
2985 XXmh*commandBox.button3.label: comp
2986 XXmh*commandBox.button3.translations:\
2988 X <Btn1Up>: XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand n comp) unset()
2990 if test 457 -ne `wc -c <'Xmh.ad'`; then
2991 echo shar: \"'Xmh.ad'\" unpacked with wrong size!
2995 if test -f 'xmh-command.el' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then
2996 echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmh-command.el'\"
2998 echo shar: Extracting \"'xmh-command.el'\" \(1294 characters\)
2999 sed "s/^X//" >'xmh-command.el' <<'END_OF_FILE'
3000 X;;; These functions are for use with xemacs and xmh.
3001 X;;; The R5 xmh has a new action - XmhShellCommand which executes
3002 X;;; a shell command with the current msg as an arg.
3003 X;;; By executing something like:
3004 X;;; XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand repl)
3005 X;;; you can use xemacs as your editor with xmh.
3007 X;;; The following elisp functions perform the basic whatnowproc functionality
3008 X;;; (quitting and deleting, sending)
3010 X;;; Andrew Wason aw@bae.bellcore.com
3013 X;;; Override C-xC-c
3014 X(define-key indented-text-mode-map "\C-x\C-c" 'xmh-command-send-or-delete)
3017 X(setq mhdraft (getenv "mhdraft")) ; save the filename of the draft
3020 X(find-file mhdraft) ; load the draft letter
3021 X(indented-text-mode)
3022 X(setq draft-buffer (current-buffer)) ; save the buffer the draft is in
3025 X(defun xmh-command-send-or-delete ()
3026 X "Prompt to send or delete letter, then quit."
3028 X (set-buffer draft-buffer)
3029 X (if (y-or-n-p "Send message? ")
3031 X (save-buffer) ; save the draft buffer
3032 X (message "Sending...")
3033 X (pop-to-buffer "MH mail delivery"); pop to a buffer for "send" output
3035 X (call-process "send" nil t t mhdraft) ; call MH "send"
3036 X (if (y-or-n-p "Exit? ")
3037 X (kill-emacs))) ; exit emacs
3038 X (delete-file mhdraft) ; delete the draft letter
3039 X (kill-emacs))) ; exit emacs
3041 if test 1294 -ne `wc -c <'xmh-command.el'`; then
3042 echo shar: \"'xmh-command.el'\" unpacked with wrong size!
3044 # end of 'xmh-command.el'
3046 if test -f 'xmhcommand' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then
3047 echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmhcommand'\"
3049 echo shar: Extracting \"'xmhcommand'\" \(669 characters\)
3050 sed "s/^X//" >'xmhcommand' <<'END_OF_FILE'
3052 X# This shell should be invoked by the xmh XmhShellCommand() action as
3053 X# XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y repl)
3054 X# XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand n comp) etc.
3055 X# If the second arg is y, then the message list will be used.
3057 X# We invoke the passed MH command on the identified message
3058 X# (we must strip the message number and folder from the pathname)
3061 X $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs +`dirname \`echo $3 | \
3062 X sed "s;\\\`mhpath +\\\`/;;"\`` `basename $3`
3064 X# You can use this more readable version instead if you have ksh
3065 X# $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs +$(dirname $(echo $3 | \
3066 X# sed "s;$(mhpath +)/;;")) $(basename $3)
3069 X $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs
3072 if test 669 -ne `wc -c <'xmhcommand'`; then
3073 echo shar: \"'xmhcommand'\" unpacked with wrong size!
3075 chmod +x 'xmhcommand'
3076 # end of 'xmhcommand'
3078 if test -f 'xmhemacs' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then
3079 echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmhemacs'\"
3081 echo shar: Extracting \"'xmhemacs'\" \(116 characters\)
3082 sed "s/^X//" >'xmhemacs' <<'END_OF_FILE'
3084 X# Invoke xemacs and load the xmh-command.el stuff.
3085 X# xmhemacs is used by xmhcommand
3086 Xxemacs -l xmh-command
3088 if test 116 -ne `wc -c <'xmhemacs'`; then
3089 echo shar: \"'xmhemacs'\" unpacked with wrong size!
3094 echo shar: End of shell archive.
3097 ------------------------------
3099 Subject: babyl2mh.pl
3100 From: Vivek Khera <khera@cs.duke.edu>
3101 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
3104 # incorporate an RMAIL babyl file into an MH folder
3106 # usage: babyl2mh +folder babyl-file
3108 # V. Khera <khera@cs.duke.edu> 17-JUL-1991
3110 # where to find rcvstore
3111 $rcvstore = "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore";
3114 # pull out command line args
3116 die "usage: babyl2mh +folder babyl-file\n" unless @ARGV == 2;
3119 # make sure folder name starts with a "+"
3120 (substr($folder,0,1) eq "+") || (substr($folder,0,0) = "+");
3123 print "Incorporating RMAIL file $bfname into MH folder $folder\n";
3126 # read in babyl file.
3128 $/ = "\037"; # this separates the records in a babyl file
3129 $* = 1; # records are multi-lines
3131 open(BABYL,$bfname) || die "Couldn't open $bfname\n";
3133 $_ = <BABYL>; # discard header.
3138 chop; # get rid of delimeter
3139 s/\f(.|\n)*\*\*\* EOOH \*\*\*\n//; # remove duplicate header information
3140 open(RCVSTORE,"|" . $rcvstore . " $folder");
3143 print "Message $msgnum done.\n";
3146 ------------------------------
3149 From: Juergen Nickelsen <nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de>
3150 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
3153 # Usage: inco [from [folder]]
3154 # "from" defaults to $HOME/Mail/outbound, "folder" to +inbox.
3156 lispfile=/tmp/inco.$$.el
3157 input=${1-$HOME/Mail/outbound}
3158 tmpmbox=/tmp/inc.$$.mbox
3161 if [ $# -ge 3 ]; then
3162 echo Usage: `basename $0` [ from [ folder ]]
3166 trap "rm -f $lispfile $tmpmbox ; exit 1" 1 2 15
3171 echo '(rmail-input "'$input'")
3172 (rmail-last-message)
3173 (setq last (rmail-what-message))
3174 (rmail-show-message 1)
3175 (while (not (equal (rmail-what-message) last))
3176 (rmail-output "'$tmpmbox'")
3177 (rmail-delete-forward nil))
3178 (rmail-output "'$tmpmbox'")
3179 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
3182 emacs -batch -l $lispfile
3183 inc -file $tmpmbox $folder
3186 rm -f $lispfile $tmpmbox
3188 ------------------------------
3190 Subject: srvrsmtp.c patch
3191 From: Paul Pomes <paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
3192 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
3194 >From the 5.67 sources:
3196 *** srvrsmtp.c- Mon Feb 22 12:25:54 1993
3197 --- srvrsmtp.c Mon Feb 22 12:29:09 1993
3201 message("250", "Reset state");
3205 + /* clean up a bit if running in parent */
3207 + dropenvelope(CurEnv);
3208 + CurEnv = newenvelope(CurEnv);
3209 + CurEnv->e_flags = BlankEnvelope.e_flags;
3212 case CMDVRFY: /* vrfy -- verify address */
3214 ------------------------------
3216 Subject: mhn.c patch 1
3217 From: Casper H.S. Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
3218 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
3220 *** mh-6.8.3/uip/mhn.c.org Wed Dec 1 05:01:36 1993
3221 --- mh-6.8.3/uip/mhn.c Fri Jun 3 12:38:04 1994
3225 #include "../h/mhn.h"
3233 ------------------------------
3235 Subject: mhn.c patch 2
3236 From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
3237 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 13:03:15 -0800
3239 *** uip/mhn.c Tue Sep 13 23:06:18 1994
3240 --- uip/mhn.c.NEW Tue Sep 13 22:58:10 1994
3244 if (((cp = m_find (buffer)) == NULL || *cp == 0)
3245 && (cp = ct -> c_showproc) == NULL) {
3248 + /* treat as multipart/mixed per rfc 1521 */
3249 + return show_multi (ct, serial, alternate);
3251 content_error (NULLCP, ct,
3252 "don't know how to display content");
3260 ------------------------------
3262 Subject: +IRIX config file
3263 From: John Jack Repenning <jackr@dblues.engr.sgi.com>
3264 Date: 25 Jul 1995 02:35:41 GMT
3266 # Irix 5.3 (based on examples/sys5r4)
3268 bin /usr/local/bin/mh
3273 etc /usr/local/lib/mh
3274 ldoptions -L/usr/local/lib/mh
3280 popdir /usr/local/bin
3283 #slibdir /usr/local/lib/mh
3289 options FOLDPROT='"0700"'
3293 options MORE='"/usr/bsd/more"'
3294 options MSGPROT='"0600"'
3297 options SBACKUP='"\\#"'
3306 options _XOPEN_SOURCE
3309 ------------------------------
3313 outline-regexp: "^Subject:"
3316 Subject: +Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)
3317 From: jerry@ora.com (Jerry Peek)
3318 Date: 20 Nov 95 18:51:24 GMT
3320 Here's a simple-minded Bourne shell version. It uses
3321 "scan" to get the message number and message-id of each message. If
3322 a message has the same message-id as the previous message, the
3323 script adds its message number to the "remove" shell variable.
3329 scan -width 300 -format '%(msg) %{message-id}' |
3330 while read msg msgid; do
3331 if [ "$msgid" = "$lastmsgid" ]; then
3332 remove="$remove $msg"
3339 That's pretty simple-minded. For example, if the $remove variable
3340 gets too big, your system may complain. And I'm sure there are some
3341 more-efficient ways to find the list of duplicate message-ids. But
3344 Subject: +Removing duplicate messages (Perl)
3345 From: rtor@ansa.co.uk (Owen Rees)
3346 Date: 20 Nov 1995 12:39:47 GMT
3348 I wrote a perl script to do this some time ago. All the usual dire
3349 warnings about destructive technology apply - take a backup, do it on
3350 a copy, try it on a small test case first etc. Don't use this script
3351 unless you are prepared to accept the consequences.
3353 #!/usr/local/bin/perl
3355 $version = "rmmdup 1";
3357 if (@ARGV == 0) { $folder = ""; }
3358 elsif (@ARGV == 1) { $folder = $ARGV[0];
3359 unless ( $folder =~ /^\+.+$/ )
3360 { die "usage $0 [+folder]\n"; };
3362 else { die "usage $0 [+folder]\n"; };
3366 open (scan, "scan $folder -format '%(msg) %{message-id}'|");
3368 { if ( ($msg,$msgid) = /^(\d+) (<.*>)$/)
3369 { if ($msgs{$msgid})
3370 { print "$msg duplicates $msgs{$msgid}\n";
3371 $rmmlist .= " $msg";
3373 else { $msgs{$msgid} = $msg; };
3376 if ( $rmmlist ) { exec "rmm $folder $rmmlist"; };
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