Organization: Newt Software, Menlo Park, California, USA
Archive-name: mail/mh-faq/part1
-Last-modified: $Date$
-Version: $Revision$
+Last-modified: $Date: 2012-11-23 21:47:03 -0800 (Fri, 23 Nov 2012) $
+Version: $Revision: 11334 $
Posting-Frequency: monthly
This is a living list of frequently asked questions on the mailer
This list depends on your comments, additions and fixes: please send
them to Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>.
- Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
- 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Bill Wohler
+ Copyright 1991-1999, 2001, 2004-2007, 2012 Bill Wohler
Permission to use, copy, distribute, and translate this document for
any non-commercial purpose is hereby granted, provided that this
01.01 Why should I use MH?
!01.02 What is the current version/status of MH?
!01.03 Where can I get MH?
-!01.04 What references exist for MH?
+ 01.04 What references exist for MH?
01.05 What other MH software is available?
-!01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
+ 01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
01.07 How should I report bugs?
01.08 How can I convert from my mailer to MH?
01.09 What is the copyright status of nmh?
02.13 Is there a patch to fix this or that?
02.14 How can I build MH on OS/2?
02.15 Do any POP/IMAP servers handle MH format?
- 02.16 How can I build MH on Windows?
+!02.16 How can I build MH on Windows?
!02.17 How can I build MH on a Mac?
________________________
04.02 Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file?
04.03 Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?"
04.04 How can you save News articles into an MH folder?
-!04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
+ 04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
04.06 How can I remove duplicate messages?
04.07 How can I remove holes in numbering?
__________________________
06.01 What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed".
06.02 Can I run my message through a program (e.g., ispell) before sending?
06.03 What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part".
- 06.04 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available"
+!06.04 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available"
06.05 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender
already specified"
06.06 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [BHST] no socket opened"
06.07 How do I fix the "X-Authentication-Warning" header?
06.08 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [RPLY] 503 Need MAIL
before RCPT"
- 06.09 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature
+!06.09 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature
end-of-file on socket"
06.10 Fixing "Sender didn't use the HELO protocol"
06.11 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 553 Local
repository for a long time. Ken Hornstein <kenh at pobox.com> picked
up the torch in 2002 and moved development to Savannah where Jon
Steinhart <nmh at fourwinds.com> joined him as a project maintainer.
- See http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/. The stable version of nmh is 1.2.
- The file DIFFERENCES in the nmh distribution contains an
- ever-growing list of differences between nmh and MH.
+ See http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/. The stable version of nmh is 1.5.
+ The file docs/DIFFERENCES in the nmh distribution contains a list of
+ differences between nmh and MH.
- GNU mailutils (version 1.2) is a collection of mail-related
+ GNU mailutils (version 2.99.97) is a collection of mail-related
utilities. At the core of mailutils is libmailbox, a library which
provides access to various forms of mailbox files (including remote
mailboxes via popular protocols and MH). See
Subject: !01.03 Where can I get MH?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:46 -0700
+Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:19:17 -0800
- MH comes standard with:
-
- Berkeley Software Design BSD/386 . . . . MH 6.8.3
- Control Data Corp. CDC4680-MP . . . . . . EMH 1.4.2 (modified MH)
- Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . nmh 1.1-RC4
- Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . mailutils 1.1
- DEC Ultrix 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.5
- DEC Ultrix 4.2A.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7.1
- DEC OSF/1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7
- Evans and Sutherland ES/OS 2.3 . . . . . MH 6.6
- FreeBSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.8.4
- IBM PS/2 AIX 1.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.4
- IBM RISC System/6000 AIX 3.x and 4.x . . MH 6.6
- MIPS RISC/OS 4.52 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.6
- Red Hat Linux (3.0.3, 4.0 and 4.1) . . . MH 6.8.3
- SGI Irix 6.2 Freeware 2.0 CDROM . . . . . MH 6.8.3
- Sony NEWS-OS 4.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7.2
- Tektronix UTek . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH (Version Unknown)
-
- Download MH:
-
- http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/nmh/nmh-1.2.tar.gz 831kB
-
- Download GNU mailutils:
-
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-1.2.tar.gz 3.4MB
+ MH comes standard with many systems.
+
+ nmh (or mailutils) can be installed on Debian-based systems with:
+
+ aptitude install nmh
+
+ On Red Hat-based systems, use:
+
+ yum install nmh
+
+ nmh source code releases are available at:
+
+ http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/nmh/
+
+ GNU mailutils source code releases are available at:
+
+ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-latest.tar.gz
+ (or .bz2 or .lzma or .xz)
------------------------------
-Subject: !01.04 What references exist for MH?
+Subject: 01.04 What references exist for MH?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:41 -0700
------------------------------
-Subject: !01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
+Subject: 01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>, Jos Vos <jos at bull.nl>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:33 -0700
------------------------------
-Subject: 02.16 How can I build MH on Windows?
+Subject: !02.16 How can I build MH on Windows?
+From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
+Date: Sun Sep 30 22:45:08 CDT 2012
+
+ nmh is now available as a Cygwin package. Select it using Cygwin
+ setup. Or, download and build from source. Hacks are no longer
+ needed.
+
From: Satyaki Das <satyaki at theforce.stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:57:19 -0700
------------------------------
-Subject: !02.17 How can I build MH on a Mac?
+Subject: 02.17 How can I build MH on a Mac?
+From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
+Date: Sun Sep 30 22:47:12 CDT 2012
+
+ nmh 1.3 and later build on Mac OS X out of the box.
+
From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el at lisse.na>
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 13:43:19 +0100
------------------------------
-Subject: !04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
+Subject: 04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:35:53 -0700
start with the first four lines--the latter group of lines are much
easier to understand.
- %; $Header$
+ %; $Header: /cvsroot/nmh/nmh/etc/replcomps,v 1.3.2.1 2003/10/24 20:14:46 kenh Exp $
%;
%; These next lines slurp in lots of addresses for To: and cc:.
%; Use with repl -query or else you may get flooded with addresses!
------------------------------
-Subject: 06.04 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available"
+Subject: !06.04 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available"
From: Peter Marvit <marvit at hplabs.hpl.hp.com>,
Eric Bracken <bracken at bacon.performance.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
servers: 127.0.0.1 \01localnet
+From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
+Date: Sun Sep 30 22:47:12 CDT 2012
From: Larry Daffner <ldaffner at convex.com>
Date: 3 Mar 1996 14:39:54 -0600
5. Your load average is so high that sendmail is refusing
connections.
- Solution: Change your configuration from "mta: sendmail/smtp" to
- "mta: sendmail" so that a sendmail processes is spawned to
+ Solution: Change your configuration from "mts: smtp" to "mts:
+ sendmail" (after nmh 1.5, "mts: sendmail/smtp" or "mts:
+ sendmail/pipe") so that a sendmail processes is spawned to
deliver the message. This is a double-edged sword since the extra
process only makes the load worse.
-From: Corbin Covault <cec8 at po.cwru.edu>
-Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 02:13:42 -0400
-
- 6. Sendmail may not be located on the path that MH expects.
-
- Solution: Try specifying the path explicitly by adding a line to
- mts.conf thus:
-
- sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
-
- or wherever your sendmail daemon executable lives.
-
From: Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn at cs.niu.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 2001 18:47:43 -0500
- 7. You don't want to use an available server.
-
- Solution: Try
+ 8. You don't want to use an available server.
- postproc: /usr/local/lib/mh/spost
-
- in your MH profile (but check the path first). That should use
- command line sendmail.
+ See David Levine's answer in Fixing "post: problem initializing
+ server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket."
------------------------------
------------------------------
-Subject: 06.09 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket"
+Subject: !06.09 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket"
+From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
+Date: Sun Sep 30 22:52:46 CDT 2012
+
+ To use a different SMTP server temporarily (after nmh 1.5):
+
+ What now? send -server smtp.example.com
+
+ Use the name or address of your SMTP server, of course.
+ Alternatively, if you can use your local sendmail program, then
+ enable that by one of these methods:
+
+ 1. Change the mts setting in your mts.conf to:
+
+ mts: sendmail/pipe
+
+ 2. Add the mts setting to a send entry in your profile. For example,
+
+ send: -mts sendmail/pipe
+
+ 3. Override the mts setting temporarily:
+
+ What now? send -mts sendmail/pipe
+
+ 4. Add the following to your profile:
+
+ postproc: $MHLIB/spost
+
+ This is the only available solution if you are running a version
+ of MH other than nmh 1.5 and higher. However, the use of spost is
+ discouraged because:
+
+ a) It requires the local sendmail to be configured for delivery
+ to all possible addresses. This may not be as common as it used
+ to be, as it is limited by many ISPs.
+
+ b) spost and blind MH aliases turn out to be a potentially
+ dangerous combination: spost expands them as if they weren't
+ blind, so all recipients see them.
+
From: Ginko <gianluca at noroboter.rotoni.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:18:14 +0000 (UTC)
didn't want to take it away, the very simple fix to this problem was
to allow the localhost on /etc/hosts.allow on the sendmail entry.
-From: Stefan Huebner <sh at muc.de>
-Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 20:06:49 +0200
-
- Use spost instead of post. To do this:
-
- % mv post post.orig
- % ln -s spost post
-
From: Chuck Mattern <cmattern at mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
From: David Paschich <dpassage at bigbook.com>
Date: 23 Apr 96 21:27:12 GMT
-# @(#)$Id$
+# @(#)$Id: mh.faq 11334 2012-11-24 05:47:03Z wohler $
# a 4.2BSD VAX system running SendMail
bin /usr/local/bin/mh
bboards off
projects / mmh / commitdiff