X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=DIFFERENCES;fp=DIFFERENCES;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hb=d66e48eced59def411e289f040956b1ec3666cb0;hp=b66463933bb2639db7e64e25d3a1d45ac5966c39;hpb=dc35357cfd21782dac6f1fc35f375364b0d207a4;p=mmh diff --git a/DIFFERENCES b/DIFFERENCES deleted file mode 100644 index b664639..0000000 --- a/DIFFERENCES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,281 +0,0 @@ -[NOTE: This file is out-of-date. Updating it every time new features are added - to nmh forevermore is a pain. Perhaps we should limit it to - documentation of _incompatibilities_ with MH (which should be rare).] - -The following are the differences between nmh and MH-6.8.3. UCI has -since released MH-6.8.4. Most of the new features it adds have -also been added to nmh, but those differences are not listed here. -There are a few new features in MH-6.8.4 that are missing from nmh, -but they are primarily undocumented in MH-6.8.4 (and no one has -ever asked me for them). - -GENERAL -------- -*) nmh has been converted to autoconf (configure) and should be - more portable and easier to install than MH. In particular, nmh - will now compile on Linux. -*) All of MH's Makefiles have been rewritten for nmh. You can now - use GNU make without any problems. Also, if your make supports - the VPATH variable (such as GNU make), you can now compile in a - different directory from the one containing the source code. -*) The source code for nmh has been substantially cleaned up. - It now requires an ANSI C compiler (gcc is fine) to compile. -*) A new option `-version' has been added to all the commands. -*) The POP server (popd) has been removed from the distribution. - But the client-side support for POP and KPOP is still present. - Also nmh doesn't currently support some of the alternate forms of - POP such as APOP or RPOP that are contained in MH (although they - could easily be resurrected, if necessary). -*) The support for MH-style bulletin boards has been removed - (NNTP makes this obsolete anyway). -*) Currently nmh doesn't support using shared libraries for libmh. - This may return in the future, but is not a high priority, since - the nmh commands are not that large, and disk space gets cheaper - every day. -*) Almost all of the commands in nmh have been modified to accept - an arbitrary number of command line arguments (most MH commands - will not accept more than 1000 arguments on the command line). -*) nmh should be more secure than MH. Hundreds of buffer overflow - problems have been fixed in the source code. Of course, I still - don't make any guarantees. - -DOCUMENTATION -------------- -*) Many of the man pages have been cleaned up or clarified. -*) The mhook man page has been split into separate man pages for - rcvtty, rcvdist, and rcvpack. -*) Added new man page `mh-draft' which discusses the nmh draft - folder facility. -*) The various `procs' (rmmproc, moreproc, showmimeproc, etc...) - are now documented in the "mh-profile" man page. Many of these - were previously undocumented. - -FORMATTING ----------- -*) Added a new formatting string escape %(decode) to decode and - display RFC-2047 encoded header fields. - -SEQUENCES ---------- -*) The is no longer a limitation on the length of lines in the file - containing your public sequences (.mh_sequences). That should be - the end of the error message ".mh_sequences is poorly formatted". - -ANNO ----- -*) The switch -inplace is now on by default. - -CONFLICT --------- -*) Conflict now works on systems that define more - than 100 groups. - -DIST ----- -*) The switch -inplace is now on by default. - -FLIST ------ -*) A new command `flist' has been added to nmh, that will list the - folders that contain messages in a given sequence (such as the - unseen sequence). This was a much needed command in the MH suite - of programs. - -FOLDER ------- -*) `folder -all' now dynamically allocates space for folder names and can - handle more than 300 folders. -*) `folder' now uses the standard Unix trick of looking at the number of - links to a directory entry, in order to avoid doing a stat(2) call - on messages in folders with no subfolders. This greatly increases - the speed of `folder -all -recurse' on large mail setups. -*) The switches `-header' and `-total' are more orthogonal. The command - `folder -all -noheader -nototal' now does the right thing. - -FORW ----- -*) The switch -inplace is now on by default. -*) Added switches `-dashstuffing' and `-nodashstuffing', to determine - whether forwarded messages are RFC934 quotes (dashstuffed). - (This corresponds to the undocumented switch "nodashmunging" - in MH). - -INC ---- -*) If compiled with RPATHS, a Delivery-Date header is now added to all - messages incorporated with `inc'. -*) Using the new format string escape %(decode), the scan lines for `inc' - will correctly decode RFC-2047 encoded headers. - -MARK ----- -*) If neither of the switches -public/-nopublic are specified, then - existing sequences will retain their current public/private status, - instead of being changed to public. -*) The command "mark -list -sequence foo" will now indicate if the - sequence "foo" is a private sequence. - -MHBUILD -------- -*) The functionality in `mhn' to create MIME messages, has been cleaned - up substantially, and moved to separate command `mhbuild'. -*) If given a file argument of "-", mhbuild will now accept the MIME - composition file on the standard input, and output the new MIME - message to the standard output. This makes it much easier to use - this functionality in shell scripts. -*) The switch -norfc934mode is now the default. - -MHL ---- -*) There is a new variable "decode" which instructs `mhl' to decode - a component as a RFC-2047 encoded header field. - -MHLIST ------- -*) The functionality of `mhn -list' has been moved to the new - command `mhlist'. - -MHN ---- -*) mhn is now obsolete. It has been split into the commands mhbuild, - mhlist, mhshow, mhstore, and viamail. mhn still exists for - backward compatibility, but the new commands should be preferred. -*) Changed the profile entry automhnproc to automimeproc - (which has slightly different semantics). - -MHPATH ------- -*) `mhpath all' will no longer abort if the folder has more than - 998 messages. - -MHSHOW ------- -*) The functionality of `mhn -show' has been moved to the new - command `mhshow'. -*) mhshow now correctly treats unknown subtypes of text as - text/plain, as specified by RFC-2046. -*) mhshow now correctly treats unknown subtypes of multipart as - multipart/mixed, as specified by RFC-2046. -*) You can now override the default method by which mhshow handles - subtypes of multipart that are known internally (mixed, alternate, - etc...). Previously the behavior on these types could not be - changed. - -MHSTORE -------- -*) The functionality of `mhn -store' has been moved to the new - command `mhstore'. -*) mhstore will now correctly identify a formatting string of "-" - and send the content to stdout. - -PACKF ------ -*) When packing a folder, the default format is now `mbox' format, rather - than `mmdf' format. The options -mbox and -mmdf have been added to - `packf' so you can choose the desired format. - -PACKMBOX --------- -*) The script packmbox has been removed from the nmh distribution, since - its functionality has been added to the command packf. - -PICK ----- -*) If neither of the switches -public/-nopublic are specified, then - existing sequences will retain their current public/private status, - instead of being changed to public. - -RCVPACK -------- -*) The default format for `rcvpack' is now `mbox' format, rather than - `mmdf' format. The options -mbox and -mmdf have been added to - `rcvpack' so you can choose the desired format. -*) Rcvpack no longer adds the field "Delivery-Date", as that is added - by `slocal'. - -RCVSTORE --------- -*) Added new switches -unseen/-nounseen to control whether new messages - are added to the Unseen-Sequence. - -RCVTTY ------- -*) The option `-width' has been added. - -REFILE ------- -*) If an conflict occurs when using the `-preserve' switch, - then refile will search for and use the next available - message number above the one you wish to preserve, rather - than aborting with an error. -*) Added new options `-unlink' and `-nounlink' which specify - that that messages "removed" from the source folder should - just be unlinked, rather than moved to name with prefix. - -REPL ----- -*) Added new options `-format' and `-noformat'. The switch `-format' - will filter the message to which you are replying with a standard - message filter "mhl.reply" which is included in the distribution. - The switch `-noformat' will negate `-format' and `-filter', so that - the message to which you are replying is not included in the draft. -*) Added new options `-group' and `-nogroup'. These switches direct - repl as to whether or not this is a group reply. A group reply uses - a different forms (components) file (default is replgroupcomps). -*) The standard forms files "replcomps" and "replgroupcomps" now have - support for the "Mail-Reply-To:" and "Mail-Followup-To:" header fields. -*) The switch -inplace is now on by default. - -RMM ---- -*) Added new options `-unlink' and `-nounlink' which specify - that that "removed" messages should just be unlinked, rather - than moved to name with prefix. - -SCAN ----- -*) Using the new format string escape %(decode), the scan lines created - by `scan' will correctly decode RFC-2047 encoded headers. - -SHOW/NEXT/PREV --------------- -*) Added new options `-checkmime' and `-nocheckmime' which allow you - to enable and disable the test for MIME messages. -*) The "mhnproc" profile entry has been changed to "showmimeproc". -*) Added `-showmimeproc' switch to specify the showmimeproc at the - command line. -*) The default "showproc" has been changed to `mhl'. -*) The default "showmimeproc" is now `mhshow'. -*) `show' is better at handling alternate character sets. It knows that - US-ASCII is a subset of any ISO-8859-X character set. - -SLOCAL ------- -*) Added new action `folder' or `+' to slocal, which adds new message - to a nmh folder. Currently, this is handled by piping the new - message to rcvstore, although this may change in the future. -*) The action `mbox' now delivers to a file in mbox format. Previously - it delivered to a file in mmdf format. -*) Added new action `mmdf' to deliver to a file in mmdf format. -*) Added new options -[no]suppressdup to slocal to check for duplicate - messages. The code for suppression of duplicate messages (MH config - was MSGID) is now always built into slocal. -*) Improved the debugging of slocal ".maildelivery" files. It will now - warn when an entry in this file is skipped because there are not - enough fields. Also the debugging output of slocal has been cleaned up, - so that it is much easier to read. -*) Slocal now adds the Delivery-Date header to all delivered messages. - Previously it only added them to messages delivered to a file. - -VIAMAIL -------- -*) The functionality of this new command, was formerly part of - `mhn' as the (undocumented) option `mhn -viamail'. - -WHATNOW -------- -*) Added new action "mime" to whatnow, which causes whatnow to call - program specified by "buildmimeproc" profile entry, to process - MIME composition files (default is mhbuild). -*) Added new action "delete" to whatnow, which deletes draft file - and exits.