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- - Changes to - The RAND MH Message Handling System: - UCI version MH 6.8 - - - John L. Romine - - Computing Support Group - Information and Computer Science - University of California, Irvine - Irvine, CA 92717-3425 - Bug-MH@ICS.UCI.EDU - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/ - - - ABSTRACT - - - This document describes the changes to the - UCI version of the RAND MH system from MH 6.6 to - this release of MH 6.8. This document is meant to - supplement, not supersede, the standard MH User's - manual and MH Administrator's manual. - - Comments concerning this documentation should - be addressed to the mailbox Bug-MH@ICS.UCI.EDU. - Current information about MH can be obtained from - the MH Home Page on the World Wide Web at - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/. - - - - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - - The MH system described herein is based on the original RAND - MH system. It has been extensively developed (perhaps too - much so) by Marshall T. Rose and John L. Romine at the - University of California, Irvine. Einar A. Stefferud, Jerry - N. Sweet, and Terry P. Domae provided numerous suggestions - to improve the UCI version of MH. - - Of course, a large number of people have helped MH - along. The list of "MH immortals" is too long to list here. - For this release, numerous MH-Workers sent in fixes and - other changes. A handful of courageous MH-Workers volun- - teered to beta-test these changes; their help is particu- - larly appreciated. - - DISCLAIMER - - The Regents of the University of California wish to make it - known that: - - Although each program has been tested by its - contributor, no warranty, express or implied, is - made by the contributor or the University of - California, as to the accuracy and functioning of - the program and related program material, nor - shall the fact of distribution constitute any such - warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the - contributor or the University of California in - connection herewith. - - CONVENTIONS - - In this document, certain formatting conventions are adhered - to: - - The names of UNIX commands, such as comp are presented - in italics. - - Arguments to programs, such as `msgs' and `-nobell' are - delimited by single-quotes. - - Text that should be typed exactly as-is, such as - command lines (e.g., "folder -pack"), are delimited by - double-quotes. - - UNIX pathnames and envariables, such as /usr/uci and - $SIGNATURE, are presented in bold font. - - - CHANGES FOR MH 6.8.4 - - The MH 6.8.4 release is a minor maintenance release, and - contains few user-visible changes. The changes consist - mostly of documentation improvements, minor bug fixes, and - some portability enhancements for BSD 4.4 and Solaris 2.x - (contributed changes for HPUX and OSF1 have not yet been - integrated into this release). This is the current version - of MH as of February 8, 1996. - - Runtime Tailoring - - By default post will now give the SMTP HELO command with the - local hostname. If you specify a hostname with the - clientname: option in the mtstailor file, post will give the - HELO command with that name instead. If the argument to the - clientname: option is empty, no HELO command is given. See - mh-tailor(5) for more details. - - Multi-media Mail & Encryption - - A few new PGP support programs can be found in the - support/general directory. repl supports the `-[no]mime' - option. See repl(1) for more details. - - - CHANGES FOR MH 6.8.3 - - The MH 6.8.3 maintenance release contains few user-visible - changes. Most of the changes are internal to the multi- - media display program mhn to support RFC 1521 (the new MIME - standard). This is the current version of MH as of December - 1, 1993. - - Runtime Tailoring - - When posting mail using the SMTP, post did not normally send - the HELO command. This was because SendMail would fail if - the host name given in the HELO command was the local host. - Later versions of SendMail will now complain if you omit the - HELO command. - - User Interface Programs - - folder The folder command now has `-create' and `-nocreate' - options. See folder(1) for details. - - inc A bug where `-host' would not override the pophost - as set in the mtstailor file has been fixed. This - bug was also fixed in msgchk. - - mhn The mhn command has several changes: updates for - conformance with RFC 1521, addition of two caches: - public and private, addition of two caching poli- - cies: one for reading and one for writing, support - for storing multipart entities, and a few bug fixes. - See mhn(1) for complete details. - - CHANGES FOR MH 6.8.2 - - The MH.6.8.2 patch release contains only internal changes to - support the BSD 4.4 and 386BSD versions of UNIX. This ver- - sion of MH was released August 25, 1993, but was not widely - distributed. - - CHANGES FOR MH 6.8.1 - - The MH.6.8.1 patch release is a maintenance release. This - is the current released version of MH as of August 20, 1993. - - This release includes a small number of bug fixes, a - few minor enhancements, some changes for the new MIME stan- - dard, and support for ESMTP (RFC 1425). Support for BSD 4.4 - and 386BSD is planned for the next release. - - Many other fixes which have already been received are - still being merged. If you've sent an update for MH 6.8 to - Bug-MH@ics.uci.edu and it isn't in this release, it'll prob- - ably appear in the next release. - - Fixes and Enhancements - - Many minor documentation corrections were made. There are - also a few program changes: - - mhn The `-cache policy', `-[no]check', and `-[no]pause' - switches have been added. Some other minor changes - have been made to comply with the new MIME standard. - See mhn(1) for complete details. - - post When posting mail with SendMail, post will not use the - ONEX command when it is posting a message with BCCs. - - scan scan will now work with big width values. - - Format Strings - - One new function has been added: - - %(profile arg) This function looks up a component in the - .mh_profile or context files and returns the - value of that component. - - Configuration - - Two new configuration options are present: - - GCOS_HACK The so-called "gcos" field of the password file - is used as a last resort to find the user's - full name (see mh-profile(5) for details). - Enable this option if your passwd(5) man page - notes that the `&' character in the "gcos" - field stands for the login name. - - NORUSERPASS Tells MH that your system doesn't have the - ruserpass(3) routine; MH will include its own - copy of this routine in its library. - - - CHANGES FOR MH 6.8 - - This is the current released version of MH as of December - 14, 1992. This release includes a number of bug fixes and - internal changes to make the code more portable. Two new - authentication methods are provided for the POP, and support - for SVR4 shared libraries is complete. - - The major user-visible change in this release is the - incorporation of support for multi-media mail as specified - by the Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) - RFC 1341. This allows you to include things like audio, - graphics, and the like, in your mail messages. A new com- - mand, mhn, has been provided to support MIME and a detailed - man page is provided in mhn(1). - - Documentation - - The documentation has some general improvements, and the - READ-ME document has been re-organized to help MH adminis- - trators find the appropriate configuration options for their - system. The Makefiles in the papers/ hierarchy have been - changed to invoke TeX as "tex" (instead of "tex82"). - - The following new man pages are also available: - - mhn(1) mhn helps the user process multi-media mail. - - mhparam(1) mhparam lets the user extract information from - the MH profile. - - popauth(8) the APOP database administration program (see - below). - - popi(1) the POP initiator (see below). - - slocal(1) fully documents slocal. The mhook(1) man page - now documents only the MH receive-mail hooks. - - Internal Changes - - The MH source code is in the process of being cleaned up to - make pedantic ANSI C compilers happy. Occurrences of "NULL" - have been replaced by "0" where appropriate. Extra tokens - after "#else" and "#endif" have been put inside comments - (this is still in progress). The code should now compile - cleanly on many more systems, specifically, more variants of - SVR4. - - The version of tws/dtimep.c which was included in MH - 6.7.2 was incompatible with the lex library on some systems, - and has been removed. - - A bug in the handling of blind lists inside alias files - has been fixed. - - Post Office Protocol - - There were three new options added to the POP. - - APOP This option indicates that the POP daemon will support - the non-standard APOP command which provides a - challenge-based authentication system using the MD5 - message digest algorithm. - - This option also causes the popauth program to be - installed, which allows the administrator to - manipulate the APOP authorization database. - - KPOP Support for KERBEROS with POP. This code builds popd, - inc and msgchk to support only the "kpop" protocol. - This code is still expiremental, but is available for - those sites wishing to test it. - - MPOP This option indicates that the POP daemon will support - the non-standard XTND SCAN command which provides per- - formance enhancements when using the POP over low- - speed connections. - - This option also causes an interactive POP client pro- - gram, popi, to be compiled and installed. A man page - for the popi program is also provided. This option - requires the configuration to have "bboards: pop". - - The APOP and MPOP non-standard POP facilities are documented - in The Internet Message (ISBN 0-13-092941-7), a book by - Marshall T. Rose. For more details, see support/pop/pop- - more.txt and the Administrator's Guide. The APOP option - peacefully co-exists with the standard POP, KPOP completely - replaces the standard POP, and MPOP requires "bboards: pop". - - File Locking - - The file locking code has been cleaned up to support three - kinds of kernel-level file locking. As appropriate for your - system, include the LOCKF, FCNTL or FLOCK option. For more - details, see mh-tailor(5). - - Configuration Directives - - A number of new configuration directives have been added or - changed. The full details are given in the READ-ME. - - cp: The command used to install new files if not - "cp". - - ln: The command used to link files together in the - source tree if not "ln". - - mts: Full support for ZMAILER has been added. - - popdir: The directory where popd will be installed if not - /usr/etc. - - regtest: Set to "on" to prevent the hostname and compile - date from being included in MH binaries. - - sharedlib: You may now specify "sun4" or "sys5" (for SVR4) - shared libraries. - - signal: Specifies the base type of the function returned - by signal(). This was previously defined with - "options TYPESIG". - - Several `-D' options to cc have been added or changed: - - APOP Authenticated POP (see above). - - AUX Support for A/UX systems. - - DBMPWD The DBM option has been renamed DBMPWD. - - HESIOD Support for the HESIOD name server. - - KPOP KERBEROS POP (see above). - - LOCALE Support for local characters sets; uses the set- - local() function. - - MAILGROUP Makes inc set-group-id. You may need this option - if your /usr/spool/mail is not world-writeable. - - MIME Multi-media mail. - - MPOP Mobile POP (see above). - - MSGID Enables slocal to detect and surpress duplicate - messages. - - OSF1 Support for DEC OSF1 systems. May be incomplete. - - RENAME Include this option if your system has a rename() - system call. - - SVR4 Support for System 5 Release 4 or newer systems. - - TYPESIG This option has been dropped. See `signal' - above. - - UNISTD Include this option if your system has the - include file <unistd.h>. - - VSPRINTF Include this option if your system has the - vsprintf() library routine; otherwise, _doprnt() - will be used. - - YEARMOD Forces the mh-format `year' function to return - 2-digit values. Use this option during a brief - transition period if you have local mh-format - files which need to be converted to support 4- - digit years. - - FUNCTIONAL CHANGES - - In addition to the configuration changes mentioned above, a - number of functional changes have been made to the system. - Many programs have new features added and a few new programs - have are provided. Each command's manual page gives complete - information about the its operation. Here is a short sum- - mary of the changes. - - MH Sequences - - A larger number of user-defined sequences are available. - Previously, this number had been 10. On 32-bit systems, 26 - user-defined sequences are available. - - Profile Components - - MH programs will now complain if the .mh_profile does not - end in a newline. Also, one enhancement and one new profile - component are provided: - - Aliasfile: Multiple filenames may now be given. - - Inbox: New; the default folder (for inc, etc.) if not - "inbox". - - Format Strings - - A few minor bugs were fixed in format string handling, and a - few new features were added. See mh-format(5) for complete - details. - - Addresses An attempt is made to decipher X.400 - RFC 987-style addresses. - - Comments Comments may be added to mh-format files; a - comment begins with the 2-character sequence - "%;", and ends with an un-escaped newline. - - %(modulo n) The `modulo' function escape has been added. - - %(year{date}) The date parser has been enhanced to - understand more illegal date formats; `year' - now returns a 4-digit number. - - User Interface Programs - - A number of MH commands have minor changes: - - ali The output with `-user -list' was changed to match - the output with `-nouser -list'. - - burst Will no longer drop the last message of a digest. - - inc Accepts the `-apop' switch for authenticated POP - (see above); will attempt to detect write errors - (e.g., no space left on device) when incorporating - mail; no longer replaces newline characters with - NULLs. - - folder The `-noprint' option was broken and has been - dropped. - - forw Supports `-mime' to use MIME-style multi-part mes- - sages. - - mhl Will no longer put an extra space at the end of - the `%{text}' in a formatfield. - - mhn New; manipulates multi-media (MIME) messages; a - detailed man page is provided. - - mhparam New; reads the MH profile (and context) and writes - the values of the specified components on the - standard output; useful in programmatic con- - structs. - - msgchk Supports `-apop' (see above). - - packmbox New; packs an MH folder into a UUCP-style mailbox. - - popi New; a client-side POP initiator; available only - if you built MH with the MPOP option (see above). - - refile A bug where the `rmmproc' did not remove all - specified message files has been fixed. - - scan The `-file' option is fully supported and will no - longer complain about empty folders. - - send Supports `-mime' and `-split' to split large mes- - sages into multiple partial messages using MIME. - - Support Programs - - fmtdump Can now read a format file, or a format string - given on the command line. - - popauth New; manages the APOP authorization database (see - above). - - sendmail The sendmail replacement will be installed only if - your `mts' setting uses the `/smtp' option. - - slocal A new man page for slocal is available; the new - `mbox' action is available to write a file in - packf format; a bug where extra `>' characters - were written to MMDF-style maildrops has been - fixed; if compiled with the MSGID option, can - detect and suppress reception of duplicate mes- - sages. - - viamail New; bundles a directory (like shar) and sends it - through multi-media mail. - - - CHANGES FOR MH 6.7.2 - - The MH.6.7.2 patch release is a maintenance release. This - is the current released version of MH as of February 1, - 1992. - - This release now supports the NCR Tower running SYS5R4. - The WP changes installed in MH.6.7.0 have been removed. - - Shared Libraries - - Support for SYS 5 shared libraries is in progress. - - Support for Sun OS 4.0 shared libraries had been - improved. The MH library has been modified to move initial- - ized data into a data definition file. The shared library - will now consist of a libmh.so and libmh.sa file. The - shared library version number will no longer track the MH - patch release number, and its numbering begins with version - `1.1' with this release. - - Replacement SendMail - - Since many standard system programs expect to post mail by - invoking /usr/lib/sendmail, a minimal replacement SendMail - is provided in this release. This replacement is meant to - be installed on (e.g., diskless) client workstations which - post mail using SMTP, and do not run a message transport - system. It will call post to post mail; be sure you have - configured MH with the `/smtp' mts option. This sendmail - replacement is installed in your MH etc directory, and you - should link /usr/lib/sendmail to it. - - Format Strings - - A manual page for the fmtdump format string disassembler is - supplied, and some new format functions were added: - - folder In scan, this component escape contains the name of - the current folder. It is not defined for other MH - commands. - - getenv This function escape returns the value of an - environment variable. - - There will be some additional changes in these routines - in the next patch release. - - Other Bug Fixes and Enhancements - - In addition to some other minor enhancements, some bugs were - fixed which in general were not user-visible: - - Blind lists Users may now specify RFC822 address groups in - their alias files. These groups are - implemented by MH as blind lists. - - date parsing A number of sites have brain-damaged versions - of lex. MH will now come with the date parser - already run through lex. - - mark A bug dealing with mark and the sequence named - `cur' is fixed. This was previously a problem - for mh-e users. - - MH.doc The MH nroff version of the manual no longer - contains teletype escape sequences. - - scan Can now handle headers as long as 512 bytes. - - Signals MH programs will no longer catch the HUP and - TERM signals while waiting for a sub-process. - This was causing hung processes when your - terminal line was was dropped unexpectedly. - - Signature If your signature is not defined, MH will use - the value of the gecos field of your - /etc/passwd entry as your signature. - - version.sh A bug in the awk script in config/version.sh - was fixed. - - - CHANGES FOR MH 6.7.1a - - The MH.6.7.1a patch was made available on January 25, 1991 - for limited distribution only. (This release had some known - bugs, and so was not widely distributed.) This release - incorporates several new features of particular note to - users of sequences and format strings, as well as some gen- - eral documentation improvements. There are a few minor - enhancements and internal bug fixes also. Complete documen- - tation of these changes is given in the individual manual - pages, and the READ-ME file. - - Message Sequences - - A new manual page, mh-sequence (5), has been added. This - manual page attempts to completely document the syntax and - semantics of MH message sequence specifications. - - A powerful new feature is the ability to specify mes- - sage ranges with user-defined sequences. The specification - "name:n" may be used, and it designates up to the first `n' - messages (or last `n' messages for `-n') which are - elements of the user-defined sequence `name'. - - The message specifications "name:next" and "name:prev" - may also be used, and they designate the next or previous - message (relative to the current message) which is an ele- - ment of the user-defined sequence `name'. The specifica- - tions "name:first" and "name:last" are equivalent to - "name:1" and "name:-1", respectively. The specification - "name:cur" is not allowed (use just "cur" instead). - - These specifications allow the user to step through a - sequence with a command like "show name:next". - - Format Strings - - MH format strings now support an if-then-elseif-else clause - (the `elseif' is new). This will make format strings with - multi-case conditions somewhat less complex. - - A new format function `addr' had been added. This - function takes an address header name as its argument, and - returns a rendering of the address contained in that header - as "user@host" or "host!user". - - Format widths now may be specified as a negative - number. This causes the output to be right-justified within - the format width. - - Other Changes - - Along with a few minor enhancements, some bugs were fixed - which in general were not user-visible: - - fmtdump This new program produces an pseudo-language - representation of an MH format file, vaguely - reminiscent of assembly language. While this - output format is not explicitly documented, it can - still be useful when debugging MH format files. - - refile Now takes a `-[no]rmmproc' switch. This makes it - easier to avoid loops when your "rmmproc" calls - refile. - - slocal A problem with the UUCP-style mailboxes, the - `RPATHS' configuration option, and the "Return- - Path:" header was fixed. - - sortm Will ensure that no messages are lost if it is - interrupted. - - whatnow Will now tell you where it is leaving the draft, - when interrupted in the initial edit. Previously - the draft was simply unlinked. - - Compilation Options - - LOCKF This option causes MH to use the lockf() system - call for locking (if available), instead of - flock(). - - - CHANGES FOR MH 6.7.1 - - The MH.6.7.1 patch release is a maintenance release, and as - such, provides few changes from the previous release. This - is the current released version of MH as of December 14, - 1990. - - User-Visible Changes - - The major change in this release is to the POP daemon - (popd). In MH 6.7, it was changed to be able to read both - UUCP and MMDF-style mailboxes. This did not work as - reported. The code has now been changed to parse MMDF-style - mailboxes if you are configuring MH to run with MMDF as your - message transport system. Otherwise, UUCP-style mailboxes - are expected. - - Since there are number of client programs available for - only the POP2 protocol instead of POP3, popd has been - updated to support both protocols. This is a major win. If - you are compiling with POP turned on, add the `POP2' option - to your MH config file, and the POP daemon will respond to - POP2 or POP3 commands. If you're using POP, there's no rea- - son not to include this option; it does not affect the - existing support for POP3. - - Internal Changes - - Some bugs were fixed which in general were not user-visible: - - context Errors when writing out sequences are detected - correctly. - - inc No longer inserts extra blank lines into - messages. - - mh-format A nil pointer bug in the address parser was - fixed. - - repl, etc. The malloc/free problem has been fixed. - - rmf A spelling error in the `-nointeractive' switch - has been corrected. - - rcvtty Will not print the message size if not available - (i.e., zero). - - send/post Illegal signatures (those containing unquoted - "."s) will be quoted. - - - GENERAL CHANGES FOR MH 6.7.0 - - The author is pleased to announce that there are very few - user-visible changes to MH 6.7 from the previous MH 6.6 dis- - tribution. The majority of development was in the form of - bug fixes and slight enhancements. In addition, this - release is slightly faster than the previous release. With - a few minor exceptions, it is backward-compatible with the - previous release. MH 6.7.0 is the current released version - of MH as of April 12, 1990. - - The changes were made mainly to generalize the source - code to be compatible with a larger range of systems and - compilers. There were many small changes to add declara- - tions for ANSI C compliance. The System 5 support has been - brought up to SYS5 R3, and there is support for Sun OS 4.0. - - User-Visible Changes - - Here a quick summary of the changes that were made which are - not backward-compatible with the previous release of MH: - - repl The `-format' and `-noformat' switches have not been - functional since MH 5, and have been removed. Any - users who have these switches in their .mh_profile, - will have to remove them. - - sortm Previously, in most cases sortm would fill-in any - gaps in the numbering of a folder, by renumbering the - messages starting with `1'. This will no longer - occur; for this behavior, use "folder -pack". - - - Using Aliases - - A new profile entry `Aliasfile:' has been added. The ali, - send, and whom programs will look for this profile entry and - treat it as they would an argument to `-alias'. This should - make it easier for novice MH users to begin using aliases. - - - Reading Network News & BBoards - - The UCI BBoards facility can read local BBoards, and if com- - piled with the `bboards: pop' and `pop: on' options, can - also read remote BBoards using the Post Office Protocol (POP - ver. 3). With this release, MH can instead be compiled to - read the Network News (i.e., USENET) using the Network News - Transfer Protocol (NNTP). - - This capability is enabled by compiling MH with the - `bboards: nntp' and `pop: on' options. Unfortunately, read- - ing remote BBoards via the POP and reading the Network News - via the NNTP are mutually exclusive options. - - To support the NNTP, a new module, uip/pshsbr.c, is - compiled and loaded into bbc and msh instead of - uip/popsbr.c. The default BBoard is changed from "system" - to "general" for the NNTP. - - When reading BBoards, bbc will first look for local - BBoards, and then contact the NNTP server to read the Net- - work News. The location of the NNTP server should be speci- - fied with the `nntphost:' entry in the mtstailor file (see - the MH Administrator's Guide for details), or may be speci- - fied on the command line with the `-host' switch. - - - Format Strings - - The manual page mh-format (5) has been rewritten to give a - better explanation of how to write format strings, and how - they are interpreted by MH. A line-by-line description of - the default repl form file (replcomps) is now included in - that manual page. - - Some new format functions were added, and others were - augmented: - - trim Strips any leading and trailing white-space from - the current string value. - - date2local Will coerce the date to the local timezone. - - date2gmt Will coerce the date to GMT. - - divide Divides the current numeric value by its - argument. This could be useful for building - scan format strings which print large message - sizes in "Kb" or "Mb". - - friendly If the address field cannot be parsed, this - function will return the text of the address - header, instead of a null string. - - szone A flag indicating whether the timezone was - explicit in the date string. - - PROGRAM CHANGES - - In addition to the general changes mentioned above, many - programs have specific new features added, either by new - switches or by expanded functionality. Each command's - manual page gives complete information about its new - options. Here is a short summary. - - User Interface Programs - - anno Accepts a `-nodate' switch which inhibits the date - annotation, leaving only the body annotation. - - folder When invoked with the `-pack' switch and the new - `-verbose' switch, folder will give information - about the actions taken to renumber the folder. - - On most systems, folder can now create any - non-existing parent folders of a new sub-folder. - - forw When making digests, forw will put the issue and - volume numbers in addition to the digest list - name, in the digest trailer. - - inc Detects NFS write failures, and will not zero your - maildrop in that event. - - msh Supports a variant of the new sortm. - - prompter Considers a period on a line by itself to signify - end-of-file when the `-doteof' switch is speci- - fied. - - repl The `-[no]format' switches have not been used - since MH 5 and have been deleted. repl will now - find filter files in the MH library area. - - scan With the `-file msgbox' switch, scan can list a - packf'd-format file directly (without using msh). - - Lists messages in reverse order with the - `-reverse' switch. This should be considered a - bug. - - sortm Now has the options: `-textfield field', - `-notextfield', `-limit days', and `-nolimit'. - - With these options, sortm can be instructed to - sort a folder based on the contents of an arbi- - trary header such as "subject". - - sortm minimizes renaming messages, and will no - longer arbitrarily pack folders; for this - behavior, use "folder -pack". - - whatnow Deletes the draft by renaming it with leading - comma, instead of unlinking it. - - MH Support Programs - - The following support programs also have changes or - enhancements: - - mhl Will now accept a format string on any component, - not just on addresses and dates. - - popd Will use shadow passwords if compiled with the SHA- - DOW option. It can now also read UUCP-style mail- - drops directly. - - rcvtty If given no arguments, rcvtty will produce a scan - listing as specified by a format string or file; a - default format string is used if one is not speci- - fied. - - Before the listing is written to the users terminal, - the terminal's bell is rung and a newline is output. - The `-nobell' and the `-nonewline' options inhibit - these functions. - - rcvtty will obey terminal write notification set by - mesg. With the `-biff' switch, rcvtty will also - obey the mail notification status set by biff. - - On BSD43 systems, as with write, rcvtty will be - installed set-group-id to the group "tty". - - slocal Understands UUCP-style "From " lines and will write - output files using this format if appropriate. - Before invoking a delivery program, slocal will - strip such lines unless compiled with the RPATHS - option, in which case it will will convert such - lines into "Return-Path:" headers. - - slocal has a new result code "N", for use in .mail- - delivery files. With this result code, slocal will - perform the action only if the message has not been - delivered and the previous action succeeded. This - allows for performing an action only if multiple - conditions are true. - - DOCUMENTATION - - Several of the older MH papers have been difficult to format - because they depended on an older version of PhDTeX which - was not supplied. These papers have been updated, and some - TeX library files are supplied in papers/doclib/, so that - these papers may be generated on any system with TeX. - - Many of the manual pages have been revised to include - documentation of new command options, and some have been - expanded to give more detail. All are now slightly refor- - matted at installation time to make them more compatible - with programs like makewhatis. - - - MH ADMINISTRATION - - This section describes changes in configuring, compiling and - installing MH 6.7 and should not be of interest to casual MH - users. The READ-ME file has been considerably revised and - expanded to give more detail about the configuration and - compilation options which have been included in this - release. Some compilation options have been removed, and - many new options have been added. - - All MH Makefiles have been updated to work around some - incompatibilities introduced in newer versions of make. MH - programs will no longer be installed with the sticky-bit - turned on. - - Reading this section not a substitute for carefully - reading the READ-ME file before attempting to compile MH - - - Bug Fixes - - Some bugs were fixed which in general were not user-visible: - - address parser Fixed to allow use of the "AT" domain, and - some minor bugs were fixed pertaining to - address groups. - - date parser Improved to accept more forms of illegal - dates. Military timezones were removed. - - dynamic memory Many problems with corruption of the dynamic - memory pool have been fixed. - - locking Will open files for write, if necessary to - enable locking. - - nil pointers All reported nil pointer problems have been - fixed. - - replcomps The "In-Reply-To:" header had quotes added - around the date field to comply with RFC822. - - White Pages - - If MH is compiled with the WP option, send recognizes an - address between "<<" and ">>" characters such as: - - To: << rose -org psi >> - - to be a name meaningful to a whitepages service. In order - to expand the name, send must be invoked interactively - (i.e., not from push). For each name, send will invoke a - command called fred in a special mode asking to expand the - name. - - To get a copy of the white pages service, contact - wpp-manager@psi.com. - - Configuration Options - - Some configuration options have been added or changed: - - cc To specify an alternate C compiler. - - ccoptions Defaults to `-O'. - - bboards May now be defined as "on", "off", "pop", or - "nntp". - - bbdelivery Determines whether the bboard delivery agent and - library files should be installed. - - lex To specify an alternate version of lex. - - mailgroup If defined, inc will be made set-group-id to - this group. - - sharedlib For SUN40 systems; if "on", makes libmh.a into a - shared library. - - slibdir The directory where the above shared library - should be installed. - - sprintf Set this to "int" if that's what your - sprintf (3) library routine returns. - - Compilation Options - - For different configurations, several `-D' options to cc - have been added or changed: - - BERK This disables the address and date parsing rou- - tines. If you want to do much with - mh-format (5), don't enable this. - - BSD43 Will make rcvtty set-group-id to the group - "tty". - - DBM For sites with a dbm-style password file (such - as with Yellow Pages), MH will not read the - entire passwd file into a cache. At one site - that runs YP on a large passwd file, using this - showed a 6:1 performance improvement. - - NETWORK This option has been deleted. See SOCKETS. - - NOIOCTLH Tells MH not to include the file sys/ioctl.h. - Use this if this file is not present on your - system. - - NTOHLSWAP On systems with TCP/IP networking, msh will try - to use the ntohl() macro from the file - netinet/in.h to byte-swap the binary map files - it writes. - - SENDMAILBUG Some versions of sendmail return a 451 (failure) - reply code when they don't mean to indicate - failure. This option considers that code to be - equivalent to 250 (OK). - - SHADOW Causes popd to read the file /etc/shadow for - encrypted passwords instead of /etc/passwd. Use - this if you have a shadow password file (such as - on newer versions of SYSTEM 5). - - SOCKETS Enable this if you are on a non-BSD system with - a socket interface for TCP/IP networking compa- - tible with 4.2BSD UNIX. - - SUN40 Use on Suns running Sun OS 4.0 and later. - - SYS5 This option has been updated to refer to SYS5 R3 - and later systems. - - SYS5DIR Use this if your system uses "struct dirent" - instead of "struct direct". This should be true - for systems based on SYS5 R3 and later. - - TYPESIG Defines the base type for the signal system - call. This defaults to "int", but should be - defined as "void" if appropriate for your sys- - tem. - - WP Enables support for the White Pages service. - - Installation - - MH will now explicitly set the protection mode on every file - it installs. - - Previously any existing file installed by MH would be - backed up into the source tree, and then overwritten. Now, - a few system-dependent files will not be overwritten, and - your changes will have to be merged in by hand. See the - READ-ME file for more details. - -- -