.PP
If the text of profile entry is long, you may extend it across several
real lines by indenting the continuation lines with leading spaces or tabs.
+Comments may be introduced by a line starting with `#:':
+.PP
+.RS 5
+.IR # ": "
+This is a comment.
+.RE
+.PP
+Blank lines are not permitted in
+.IR \&.mh\(ruprofile.
.SS "Standard Profile Entries"
The possible profile components are exemplified below. The only mandatory
.B nmh
profile or
.B nmh
-context, and indicates what the default value is.
+context, and indicates what the default value is. Note that a profile
+component can only appear once. Multiple appearances with trigger a
+warning that all appearances after the first are ignored.
.PP
.BR Path :
Mail
.BR comp ,
.BR dist ,
.BR forw ,
+.BR refile ,
and
.BR repl .
Read the
.BR Signature :
RAND MH System (agent: Marshall Rose)
.RS 5
-Tells
-.B send
+Tells front-end programs such as
+.BR comp,
+.BR forw,
+and
+.B repl
your mail signature. This is superseded by the
environment variable
.BR $SIGNATURE .
Your signature will be added to the address
.B send
puts in the \*(lqFrom:\*(rq header; do not include an address in the
-signature text. (profile, no default)
+signature text. The \*(lqLocal\-Mailbox\*(rq profile component
+supersedes all of this. (profile, no default)
.RE
.SS "Process Profile Entries"
whose names are lower-case only are used internally by nmh and should
not generally be set by the user.
.PP
-If the
-.B WHATNOW
-option was set during
-.B nmh
-configuration, and
-if this environment variable is set, then if the commands
-.BR refile\ ,
-.BR send ,
-.BR show ,
-or
-.B whom
-are not given any `msgs'
-arguments, then they will default to using the file indicated by
-.BR mh\-draft (5).
-This is useful for getting the default behavior
-supplied by the default
-.IR whatnowproc .
-.PP
.B $MH
.RS 5
With this environment variable, you can specify a profile
to iso_8859_1).
.RE
.PP
-.B $NOMHNPROC
-.RS 5
-If this variable is set,
-.B show
-will next test for MIME messages. This mechanism is obsolete;
-use the
-.B \-nocheckmime
-switch to
-.B show
-instead.
-.RE
-.PP
.B $MAILDROP
.RS 5
This variable tells
.B send
and
.B post
-your mail signature. This supersedes the \*(lqSignature\*(rq profile entry.
+your mail signature. This supersedes the \*(lqSignature\*(rq profile entry,
+and is not used when the \*(lqLocal\-Mailbox\*(rq profile component is set.
.RE
.PP
.B $USER
create some temporary files.
.RE
.PP
-.B $MM_NOASK
-.RS 5
-Setting this variable is set to 1 has the same effect as specifying
-the
-.B \-nolist
-and
-.B \-nopause
-switches to
-.BR mhbuild ,
-.BR mhn ,
-and
-.BR mhshow .
-OBSOLETE: will be removed in a future version of nmh.
-.RE
-.PP
.B $MHLDEBUG
.RS 5
If this variable is set to a non-null value,
will emit a representation of the search pattern.
.RE
.PP
-.B $MHPOPDEBUG
-.RS 5
-If this variable is set to a non-null value,
-.B msgchck
-and
-.B inc
-will display their interaction with the POP server.
-This mechanism is obsolete; use the
-.B \-snoop
-switch instead.
-.RE
-.PP
.B $MHWDEBUG
.RS 5
If this variable is set to a non-null value,
.fi
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-nmh(1), environ(5), mh-sequence(5)
+nmh(7), environ(5), mh-sequence(5)
.SH HISTORY
The