From 1f8f9a25135c5ce598b13dba87bddb8cacec5737 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bill Wohler Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:41:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] The big news for this update is nmh 1.5. --- docs/FAQ | 179 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 100 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/FAQ b/docs/FAQ index f086862..ce12eaa 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ +++ b/docs/FAQ @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ From: Bill Wohler 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 @@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ Posting-Frequency: monthly This list depends on your comments, additions and fixes: please send them to Bill Wohler . - 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 @@ -61,9 +60,9 @@ __________________ 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? @@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ _________________ 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? ________________________ @@ -123,7 +122,7 @@ ____________ 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? __________________________ @@ -163,14 +162,14 @@ _____________ 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 @@ -338,11 +337,11 @@ Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:52 -0700 repository for a long time. Ken Hornstein picked up the torch in 2002 and moved development to Savannah where Jon Steinhart 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 @@ -352,38 +351,30 @@ Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:52 -0700 Subject: !01.03 Where can I get MH? From: Bill Wohler -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 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:41 -0700 @@ -801,7 +792,7 @@ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:23:21 -0800 ------------------------------ -Subject: !01.06 How can I print a MH manual? +Subject: 01.06 How can I print a MH manual? From: Bill Wohler , Jos Vos Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:33 -0700 @@ -1526,7 +1517,14 @@ Date: 11 Feb 2003 04:23:38 -0800 ------------------------------ -Subject: 02.16 How can I build MH on Windows? +Subject: !02.16 How can I build MH on Windows? +From: David Levine +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 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:57:19 -0700 @@ -1585,7 +1583,12 @@ Date: 24 May 99 17:20:27 GMT ------------------------------ -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 +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 Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 13:43:19 +0100 @@ -2331,7 +2334,7 @@ Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 ------------------------------ -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 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:35:53 -0700 @@ -2988,7 +2991,7 @@ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:27:14 -0800 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! @@ -3358,7 +3361,7 @@ Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 ------------------------------ -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 , Eric Bracken Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800 @@ -3390,40 +3393,27 @@ Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800 servers: 127.0.0.1 \01localnet +From: David Levine +Date: Sun Sep 30 22:47:12 CDT 2012 From: Larry Daffner 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 -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 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." ------------------------------ @@ -3526,7 +3516,46 @@ Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 ------------------------------ -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 +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: $MHLIB/spost + + This is the only available solution if you are running a version + of MH other than nmh 1.5 and higher. However, the use of spost is + discouraged because: + + a) It requires the local sendmail to be configured for delivery + to all possible addresses. This may not be as common as it used + to be, as it is limited by many ISPs. + + b) spost and blind MH aliases turn out to be a potentially + dangerous combination: spost expands them as if they weren't + blind, so all recipients see them. + From: Ginko Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:18:14 +0000 (UTC) @@ -3534,14 +3563,6 @@ Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:18:14 +0000 (UTC) didn't want to take it away, the very simple fix to this problem was to allow the localhost on /etc/hosts.allow on the sendmail entry. -From: Stefan Huebner -Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 20:06:49 +0200 - - Use spost instead of post. To do this: - - % mv post post.orig - % ln -s spost post - From: Chuck Mattern Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 @@ -4432,7 +4453,7 @@ options VSPRINTF From: David Paschich Date: 23 Apr 96 21:27:12 GMT -# @(#)$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 -- 1.7.10.4