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79 .\" @@(#)$Id: mh.rf,v 1.11 1992/02/09 20:55:28 jromine Exp jromine $
87 \fIMH\fR is the name of a powerful message handling system.
88 Rather then being a single comprehensive program,
89 \fIMH\fR consists of a collection of fairly simple
90 single-purpose programs to send, receive, save,
91 and retrieve messages. The user should refer
92 to the \fIMH User's Manual\fR
93 and the pages for the \fIMH\fR
94 programs in the Unix Programmers Manual.
96 Unlike \fImail\fR, the standard UNIX mail user interface program,
97 \fIMH\fR is not a closed system which must be explicitly run,
98 then exited when you wish to return to the shell.
99 You may freely intersperse \fIMH\fR commands with other shell commands,
100 allowing you to read and answer your mail while you have (for example)
101 a compilation running,
102 or search for a file or run programs as needed to find the answer to
103 someone's question before answering their mail.
105 The rest of this manual entry is a quick tutorial which will teach you the
107 You should read the manual entries for the individual programs for complete
110 To get started using \fIMH\fR, put the directory
111 \fB@@(MHBINPATH)\fR on your \fB$PATH\fR.
112 This is best done in one of the files:
113 \fB\&.profile\fR, \fB\&.login\fR, or \fB\&.cshrc\fR
114 in your home directory.
115 (Check the manual entry for the shell you use,
116 in case you don't know how to do this.)
117 Run the \fIinc\fR command.
118 If you've never used \fIMH\fR before,
119 it will create the necessary default files and directories after
120 asking you if you wish it to do so.
122 \fIinc\fR moves mail from your system maildrop
123 into your \fIMH\fR `+inbox' folder,
124 breaking it up into separate files
125 and converting it to \fIMH\fR format as it goes.
126 It prints one line for each message it processes,
127 containing the from field, the subject field
128 and as much of the first line of the message as will fit.
129 It leaves the first message it processes as your current message.
130 You'll need to run \fIinc\fR each time you wish to incorporate new mail
131 into your \fIMH\fR file.
133 \fIscan\fR prints a list of the messages in your current folder.
136 \fIshow\fR, \fInext\fR, and \fIprev\fR
137 are used to read specific messages from the current folder.
138 \fIshow\fR displays the current message,
139 or a specific message, which may be specified by its number,
140 which you pass as an argument to \fIshow\fR.
141 \fInext\fR and \fIprev\fR display, respectively,
142 the message numerically after or before the current message.
143 In all cases, the message displayed becomes the current message.
144 If there is no current message,
145 \fIshow\fR may be called with an argument,
146 or \fInext\fR may be used to advance to the first message.
148 \fIrmm\fR (remove message) deletes the current message.
149 It may be called with message numbers passed as arguments,
150 to delete specific messages.
152 \fIrepl\fR is used to respond to the current message (by default).
153 It places you in the editor with a prototype response form.
154 While you're in the editor,
155 you may peruse the item you're responding to by reading the file \fB@@\fR.
156 After completing your response,
157 type \fBl\fR to review it,
158 or \fBs\fR to send it.
160 \fIcomp\fR allows you to compose a message by putting you in the editor on
161 a prototype message form,
162 and then lets you send it.
164 All the \fIMH\fR commands may be run with the single argument: `\-help',
165 which causes them to print a list of the arguments they may be invoked with.
167 Commands which take a message number as an argument
168 (\fIscan\fR, \fIshow\fR, \fIrepl\fR, ...)
169 also take one of the words:
170 \fIfirst\fR, \fIprev\fR, \fIcur\fR, \fInext\fR, or \fIlast\fR
171 to indicate (respectively) the first, previous, current, next, or last
172 message in the current folder (assuming they are defined).
174 Commands which take a range of message numbers
175 (\fIrmm\fR, \fIscan\fR, \fIshow\fR, ...)
176 also take any of the abbreviations:
181 - Indicates all messages in the range <num1> to <num2>, inclusive. The range
191 messages beginning with (or ending with) message
194 may be any of the pre-defined symbols:
195 .I first, prev, cur, next
207 - The first, previous, next or last
209 messages, if they exist.
212 There are many other possibilities such as creating multiple folders for
213 different topics, and automatically refiling messages according to subject,
214 source, destination, or content.
215 These are beyond the scope of this manual entry.
217 Following is a list of all the \fIMH\fR commands:
223 ^ali (1)~^\- list mail aliases
224 ^anno (1)~^\- annotate messages
226 ^bbc (1)~^\- check on BBoards
228 ^bbl (1)~^\- manage a BBoard
229 ^bbleader (1)~^\- responsiblities of a BBoard\-leader
231 ^bboards (1)~^\- the UCI BBoards facility
233 ^burst (1)~^\- explode digests into messages
235 ^cipher (1)~^\- en/de\-cipher txt
237 ^comp (1)~^\- compose a message
239 ^decipher (1)~^\- decipher messages
241 ^dist (1)~^\- redistribute a message to additional addresses
242 ^folder (1)~^\- set/list current folder/message
243 ^folders (1)~^\- list all folders
244 ^forw (1)~^\- forward messages
245 ^inc (1)~^\- incorporate new mail
246 ^mark (1)~^\- mark messages
247 ^mhl (1)~^\- produce formatted listings of MH messages
248 ^mhmail (1)~^\- send or read mail
249 ^mhook (1)~^\- MH receive\-mail hooks
250 ^mhparam (1)~^\- print MH profile components
251 ^mhpath (1)~^\- print full pathnames of MH messages and folders
252 ^msgchk (1)~^\- check for messages
253 ^msh (1)~^\- MH shell (and BBoard reader)
254 ^next (1)~^\- show the next message
255 ^packf (1)~^\- compress a folder into a single file
256 ^pick (1)~^\- select messages by content
257 ^prev (1)~^\- show the previous message
258 ^prompter (1)~^\- prompting editor front end
259 ^rcvstore (1)~^\- incorporate new mail asynchronously
260 ^refile (1)~^\- file messages in other folders
261 ^repl (1)~^\- reply to a message
262 ^rmf (1)~^\- remove folder
263 ^rmm (1)~^\- remove messages
264 ^scan (1)~^\- produce a one line per message scan listing
265 ^send (1)~^\- send a message
266 ^show (1)~^\- show (list) messages
267 ^slocal (1)~^\- special local mail delivery
268 ^sortm (1)~^\- sort messages
270 ^tma (1)~^\- manipulate the TTI Trusted Mail Agent (TMA)
272 ^vmh (1)~^\- visual front\-end to MH
273 ^whatnow (1)~^\- prompting front\-end for send
274 ^whom (1)~^\- report to whom a message would go
277 ^mh\-alias (5)~^\- alias file for MH message system
278 ^mh\-format (5)~^\- format file for MH message system
279 ^mh\-mail (5)~^\- message format for MH message system
280 ^mh\-profile (5)~^\- user customization for MH message system
281 ^mh\-sequence (5)~^\- sequence specification for MH message system
283 ^ap (8)~^\- parse addresses 822\-style
284 ^conflict (8)~^\- search for alias/password conflicts
285 ^dp (8)~^\- parse dates 822\-style
286 ^fmtdump (8)~^\- decode \fIMH\fP format files
287 ^install\-mh (8)~^\- initialize the MH environment
288 ^post (8)~^\- deliver a message
295 ^@@(MHBINPATH)~^directory containing \fIMH\fR commands
296 ^@@(MHETCPATH)~^\fIMH\fR library
298 \fIThe RAND \fIMH\fR Message Handling System: User's Manual\fR,
300 \fIThe RAND \fIMH\fR Message Handling System: Tutorial\fR,
302 \fIThe RAND \fIMH\fR Message Handling System: The UCI BBoards Facility\fR,
304 \fIMH.5: How to process 200 messages a day and still get some real work
308 If problems are encountered with an \fIMH\fR program,
309 the problems should be reported to the local maintainers of \fIMH\fR.
311 the name of the program should be reported,
312 along with the version information for the program.
314 To find out what version of an \fIMH\fR program is being run,
315 invoke the program with the `\-help' switch.
316 In addition to listing the syntax of the command,
317 the program will list information pertaining to its version.
318 This information includes the version of \fIMH\fR,
319 the host it was generated on,
320 and the date the program was loaded.
321 A second line of information,
322 found on versions of \fIMH\fR after #5.380 include \fIMH\fR configuration
328 version: MH 6.1 #1[UCI] (glacier) of Wed Nov 6 01:13:53 PST 1985
329 options: [BSD42] [MHE] [NETWORK] [SENDMTS] [MMDFII] [SMTP] [POP]
333 The `6.1 #1[UCI]' indicates that the program is from the UCI \fIMH.6.1\fR
335 The program was generated on the host `glacier' on
336 `Wed Nov 6 01:13:53 PST 1985'.
337 It's usually a good idea to send the output of the `\-help' switch along
340 If there is no local \fIMH\fR maintainer,
341 try the address \fBBug-MH\fR.
342 If that fails, use the Internet mailbox \fBBug-MH@@ICS.UCI.EDU\fR.
344 ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
346 ^Path:~^To determine the user's MH directory
348 .\" for each additional profile entry
350 .\" the see\-also's go here
352 .\" the first default goes here
354 .\" for each additional default
356 .\" context changes go here
357 .\" You can also have
358 .\" .Hh \- the helpful hints section
359 .\" .Hi \- the history section
360 .\" .Bu \- the bugs section
373 .\" @@(#)$Id: mh.rf,v 1.10 1991/01/07 16:56:36 mh Exp jromine $
377 ^mhparam (8)~^\- print MH profile components
388 .\" @@(#)$Id: mh.rf,v 1.9 90/04/05 15:08:50 sources Exp Locker: mh $
422 \fIThe Rand \fIMH\fR Message Handling System: User's Manual\fR,
425 \fIThe Rand \fIMH\fR Message Handling System: Tutorial\fR,
428 \fIThe Rand \fIMH\fR Message Handling System: The UCI BBoards Facility\fR,
434 @put things back, do .NA stuff another way
444 @changes for "bbhome: none"
449 .TH MH 1 @@(MHCENTERFOOT) @@(MHLEFTFOOT)
469 @fixup for makewhatis
480 @add bug reporting section