From 313c0b563539b667ee4dd618abc60afd94b9a28a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bill Wohler Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:52:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] A couple of questions from nmh's original FAQ were folded into the MH FAQ which is now a part of nmh. New Questions 1.09 What is the copyright status of nmh? 3.23 Why do folder and flist overlook some of my sub-folders? Changed Questions 1.02 current version? nmh history update, nmh 1.1-RC4, mailutils 0.6 --- docs/FAQ | 4914 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 4826 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/FAQ b/docs/FAQ index 0bcd62f..13b64f1 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ +++ b/docs/FAQ @@ -1,125 +1,4863 @@ +Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.answers,news.answers +Subject: MH Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with Answers +Keywords: FAQ,mh,mail,question,answer,pop,slocal,letter,signature, + draft,message,folder,xmh,olmh,vmail,vmailtool,comp,repl, + forw,scan,SMTP,bind,MH-E,MIME,plum,exmh,nmh +Summary: This document answers Frequently Asked Questions about MH, a + sophisticated mail interface. It should be read by new MH + users and comp.mail.mh readers and before posting to this group. +Followup-To: poster +Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu +Reply-To: Bill Wohler +From: Bill Wohler +Organization: Newt Software, Menlo Park, California, USA + +Archive-name: mail/mh-faq/part1 +Last-modified: $Date$ +Version: $Revision$ +Posting-Frequency: monthly + + This is a living list of frequently asked questions on the mailer + user interface, Mail Handler, or MH. The point of this is to + circulate existing information, and avoid rehashing old answers. + Better to build on top than start again. Please read this document + before ever posting to this newsgroup. + + This article is posted monthly. If it has already expired and + you're not reading this, you can hope that you saved the + instructions to retrieve the FAQ (see "Where can I get MH") so that + you can get a copy through other means. + + Please do not post an answer when someone posts a frequently asked + question; rather, email the relevant section of the FAQ to eliminate + unnecessary traffic in this newsgroup. + + 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 Bill Wohler + + Permission to use, copy, distribute, and translate this document for + any non-commercial purpose is hereby granted, provided that this + copyright notice appears in all copies. Commercial distributions + require prior written consent. + + This article is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Subject: Table of Contents +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 11:29:16 -0800 + +Legend: + new, - deleted, ! changed +__________________ + +01.00 Introduction + + 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? + 01.05 What other MH software is available? + 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? +_________________ + +02.00 Building MH + + 02.01 What machines does MH run on? + 02.02 How do I build MH? + 02.03 What options should I use? + 02.04 What do I need to do to use POP? + 02.05 Does MH support IMAP? + 02.06 Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc and not slocal? + 02.07 How can I build MH on Solaris 2? + 02.08 How can I build MH on Linux? + 02.09 How can I build MH on IRIX? + 02.10 How can I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field? + 02.11 How do I build MH on HP-UX? + 02.12 Can I prevent adding the local hostname to addresses behind firewalls? + 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? + 02.17 How can I build MH on a Mac? +________________________ + +03.00 Scanning & Reading + + 03.01 What do I do if scan shows the wrong date? + 03.02 How would one go about reading Usenet with MH? + 03.03 How can I search through multiple folders? + 03.04 Why don't MH format commands such as %(friendly) work? + 03.05 Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message? + 03.06 Can I get show not to run "less" so much on MIME messages? + 03.07 Why do I get "mhn: don't know how to display content"? + 03.08 How can I automatically delete MH backup files? + 03.09 Fixing "cannot fopen and lock /var/spool/mail/(user)" + 03.10 Can I read my mail with a Web browser? + 03.11 How can I run inc automatically with POP? + 03.12 Why does inc hang (on Sun)? + 03.13 How can I get POP to work? + 03.14 How do I persuade mhshow (mhn) not to bring up a new window? + 03.15 How do I turn off of all the mhshow (mhn) prompts? + 03.16 Why is inc splitting messages improperly? + 03.17 Can MH thread messages? + 03.18 How can I avoid reading the HTML version of the message? + 03.19 How do I view or save attachments? + 03.20 How do I view HTML attachments with Netscape? + 03.21 Fixing folders: unable to allocate storage for msgstats + 03.22 How do I recursively list message attachments? ++03.23 Why do folder and flist overlook some of my sub-folders? +____________ + +04.00 Filing + + 04.01 Can I append MH messages to a Unix mailbox format file? + 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? + 04.06 How can I remove duplicate messages? + 04.07 How can I remove holes in numbering? +__________________________ + +05.00 Composing & Replying + + 05.01 Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one? + 05.02 How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"? + 05.03 How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself? + 05.04 How can I include my signature? + 05.05 How do I call my editor with arguments? + 05.06 How can I digestify messages in a folder for mail to another user? + 05.07 How can I change my return address? + 05.08 How can I change my From header? + 05.09 How can I save a copy of all messages I send? + 05.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified? + 05.11 Can I post secure/encryped mail? + 05.12 How can I send multi-media (MIME) attachments? + 05.13 What's the best way to send mail to a long list of people? + 05.14 What is the Dcc header? + 05.15 How can I make sense of the replcomps file? + 05.16 How can I convert quoted-printable to 8bit in quoted text in replies? + 05.17 Can I have aliases include aliases? + 05.18 Why doesn't mhmail understand aliases? + 05.19 How do I send blind carbon copies? + 05.20 When I forward a message, can I use its Subject? + 05.21 Why is the timezone field in my 'Date:' field wrong? + 05.22 Can I automate the comp -editor mhn process? + 05.23 How can I remove those "=20" characters when forwarding? + 05.24 Can I use mh-format substitution with forw? + 05.25 How can I keep repl from breaking long lines? +_____________ + +06.00 Posting + + 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" + 06.05 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 + 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 + configuration error, hostname not recognized as local +__________________ + +07.00 Mail Filters + + 07.01 What mail filters are available? + 07.02 Why slocal writes messages to system mailbox that from(1) can't read. + 07.03 Where can I read about slocal and the format of .maildelivery? + 07.04 How do I debug my .maildelivery file? + 07.05 Why isn't slocal working? + 07.06 Are there any good biff applications for MH? + 07.07 How do I read new messages filed by procmail? +__________ + +08.00 MH-E + + 08.01 I have a question about MH-E +_________ + +09.00 Xmh + + 09.01 How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor? + 09.02 Does xmh support subfolders? + 09.03 How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh? +________ + +Appendix + + Glossary & Acknowledgments + Switching xmh's editor + babyl2mh.pl + inco - babyl to MH converter + t2h - add hyperlinks to message viewed + srvrsmtp.c patch + IRIX config file + HP-UX 10.20 config file + Removing duplicate messages (Bourne) + Removing duplicate messages (Perl) + Removing duplicate messages (Perl) + +------------------------------ + +Subject: Viewing This Article +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:44:19 -0800 + + To skip to a particular question with Subject or number xx, use + "/^S.*xx" with most pagers. In GNU Emacs type "M-C-s ^S.*xx", (or + C-r to search backwards), followed by ESC to end the search. + + To skip to new or changed questions, use "/^S.*[!+]" with most pagers and + "M-C-s ^S.*[!+]" in GNU Emacs. + + This article is in digest format. nn may have already broken this + message into separate articles; if not, then type "G %". In rn, use + ^G to skip sections. + + This article is treated as an outline when edited by GNU Emacs. Run + "M-x describe-mode" to see available outline-mode commands. Useful + commands are "M-x hide-body", "C-c C-s" (show-subtree) and "M-x + show-all" + + Check out the Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive (see "What references + exist for nn?"). Files available by ftp, man pages, and other Web + pages, as well as cross-references like the one in this paragraph + are just a click away. + + A "Date" field whose time is 00:00:00 is approximate. The month and + year in these fields represent the time they were added to the FAQ, + rather than when they were contributed by the author, as is the case + since November, 1995. + + If you should need the Internet address, use nslookup or dig if you + have them, or send mail to with + "help" for a Subject. + + References to $MHLIB refer to the directory that contains MH support + files and routines. This directory is usually /usr/lib/mh or + /usr/local/lib/mh (or /usr/local/nmh/lib or /etc/nmh for nmh). Do + not use $MHLIB literally; use the real, absolute path to your MH + library directory. + + There are slight differences between the original MH and nmh. In the + text, the nmh command or filename is preferred, and the MH + equivalent is placed in parenthesis. For example, the MH + configuration is in $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor); mhshow (mhn -show) + is used to view attachments. + + Note that due to bottom feeding email address harvesting spam scum, + mailto links have been removed and @s in addresses have been + replaced by "at." + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 01.00 ***** Introduction ***** +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 01.01 Why should I use MH? +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + The MH message handling system is a set of electronic mail programs + in the public domain. If your computer runs Unix, it can probably + run MH. + + The big difference between MH and most other "mail user agents" is + that you can use MH from a Unix shell prompt. In MH, each command + is a separate program, and the shell is used as an interpreter. So, + all the power of Unix shells (pipes, redirection, history, aliases, + and so on) works with MH--you don't have to learn a new interface. + Other mail agents have their own command interpreter for their + individual mail commands (although the mush mail agent simulates a + Unix shell). + + Because MH commands aren't part of a monolithic mail system, you can + use them at any time; you don't have to start or quit the mail + agent. Because you use them from a shell prompt, you can use all + the power of the shell. + + If your shell has time-saving aliases or functions (and most do), + you'll be able to use them with MH, of course. And because MH isn't + a monolithic mail agent, you can use MH commands in Unix shell + scripts, or call them from programs in high-level languages like C. + + Unlike most mail agents, MH keeps each message in a separate file. + The filename is the message number. To rearrange the messages, MH + just changes the filenames. MH can use standard Unix file system + operations such as removing, copying and linking messages. The + message files are grouped into one or more folders, which are + actually Unix directories. + + MH is free, powerful, flexible--and the basics are easy to learn. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: !01.02 What is the current version/status of MH. +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:51:02 -0700 + + The current official version of MH is 6.8.3, although a beta of + 6.8.4 is available. + + This version includes MIME, a multi-media MH package that implements + the new IETF work on Multi-media 822 (MIME). This allows you to + include things like audio, graphics, and the like, in your mail + messages. --Marshall Rose + + MH now works with Kerberos as well. + + In addition, a new program called mhparam extracts arguments from + .mh_profile which is useful in shell scripts. + + Please see the file CHANGES in the distribution for more details. + + Due to the languishing state of MH, Richard Coleman created another version of MH called nmh based upon + MH 6.8.3. He added GNU autoconf to ease installation considerably + and fixed several bugs and inconsistencies. Doug Morris 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 1.0.4, + but 1.1-RC4 is also available. The file DIFFERENCES in the nmh + distribution contains an ever-growing list of differences between + nmh and MH. + + GNU mailutils (version 0.6) 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 + http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: !01.03 Where can I get MH? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:05:17 -0700 + + 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 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . nmh 1.1-RC3 + Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . mailutils 0.6.1 + 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) + Table maintained by: "James R. Hamilton" + + Download MH: + + http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/nmh/nmh-1.1-RC4.tar.gz 761kB + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z 2MB + ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z 2MB + ftp://ftp.efd.lth.se/pub/mail/mh-6.8.3.tar.gz 1.3MB + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/updates/MH.6.8.4.Z 46kB + + Download GNU mailutils: + + http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-0.6.tar.gz 2.7MB + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 01.04 What references exist for MH? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:21:51 -0700 + + The Web: + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/ + http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ + http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/ + http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/ + + Books: + MH & xmh: E-mail for Users & Programmers. Third edition. Jerry + Peek, with Bill Wohler and Brent Welch. + ISBN 1-56592-093-7. 738 pages. + O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. + Out of print as of August, 1996. + + References to "the MH book" in this document refer to the third + edition of this book (section numbers for the second edition + appear in parentheses). Links to the online edition are to the + updated third edition at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/. + + This book is also available online in the following locations: + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/ (western USA, Web) + http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/mirrors/mh-book/ (eastern USA, Web) + http://www.fan.net.au/mirrors/freebooks/mh/ (Australia, Web) + http://www.huygens.org/~eijk/mh_book/ (the Netherlands, Web) + http://www.funet.fi/index/MH/book/ (Finland, Web) + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/book/index.htm (western USA, FTP) + ftp://ftp.funet.fi/index/MH/book/index.htm (Finland, FTP) + + Examples from this book are in: + ftp://ftp.uu.net/published/oreilly/nutshell/MHxmh/MHxmh3.tar.Z 114k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/book/download/MHxmh3.tar.Z (updated) 115k + + There is another book that contains a number of examples of + advanced mail handing using MH as the example message handler. + It's also quite a good reference on email in general. + + The Internet Message. Marshall T. Rose + ISBN 0-13-092941-7. 396 pages. + P T R Prentice Hall + + Papers: + MHN Tutorial by Jerry Sweet + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.ps.Z 141k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.tex.Z 48k + + Usenet: + comp.mail.mh + gmane.mail.exmh.devel + gmane.mail.exmh.user + gmane.mail.mh-e.announce + gmane.mail.mh-e.devel + gmane.mail.mh-e.user + gmane.mail.nmh.devel + + Mailing lists: + There are three mailing lists for nmh: nmh-announce, nmh-workers, + and nmh-commits. See: + + http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=nmh + + The page for each list contains a link to the archives. + + MH-users archives: + The files are in packf(1) format, compressed with compress(1). To + get them, use anonymous ftp and set "binary" transfer mode. + + current archive, uncompressed: + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.mbox + + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.95.Z 1724k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.95.scan.Z 113k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.94.Z 1669k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.94.scan.Z 57k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.93.Z 1507k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.93.scan.Z 51k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.92.Z 1251k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.92.scan.Z 43k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.91.Z 858k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.91.scan.Z 36k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.90.Z 393k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.90.scan.Z 21k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.89.Z 89k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.89.scan.Z 5k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.88.Z 178k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.88.scan.Z 11k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.87.Z 54k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.87.scan.Z 3k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.86.Z 8k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.86.scan.Z 771 + + There are directions in ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/README. + Basically, you can use either "msh" or the individual commands + "inc -file" to get the messages into a folder, and then "scan", + "pick", "show", and so on (or your favorite commands in xmh, MH-E, + etc.). --Jerry Peek + + Achim Bohnet has created an + excellent indexed version of the archive, plus some other archives + besides. + + http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/mh-users/ + http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/exmh/ + http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/ + http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/mhonarc/ + + This document: + http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/mh-faq/part1/preamble.html + http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/mail/mh-faq/part1.html + + MH-E documentation: + GNU Emacs 19.29 comes with a version of MH-E that now includes + online (Texinfo) documentation. Try "C-h i m mh-e RET". It is + also available online at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh-e/. + See also "What other MH software is available?" to see where you + can get the latest version of MH-E which includes the + documentation sources. + + exmh: + The FAQ is available at http://www.beedub.com/exmh/exmh-faq.html. + The online exmh sections from the MH book can be found at + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/exmh/tocs/jump.htm. + + Signature and Finger FAQ: + http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/signature-faq/ + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 01.05 What other MH software is available? +From: Stephen Gildea , Bill Wohler +Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:20:57 -0700 + + MH-E is the Emacs interface to the MH mail system. It offers all the + functionality of MH, the visual orientation and simplicity of use of + a GUI, and full integration with Emacs and XEmacs, including + thorough configuration and online help. + + MH-E allows one to read and process mail very quickly: many commands + are single characters; completion and smart defaults are used for + folder names and aliases. With MH-E you compose outgoing messages in + Emacs. This is a big plus for Emacs users, but even non-Emacs users + have been known to use MH-E after only learning the most basic + cursor motion commands. + + Additional features include: + + * attractive text rendering with font lock + * composition and display of MIME body parts + * display of images and HTML within the Emacs frame + * folder browsing with speedbar + * threading + * ticking messages + * lightning-fast full-text indexed searches of all of your email + * virtual folders to view ticked and unseen messages, search results + * multiple personalities + * signing and encrypting + * spam filter interaction + * XFace, Face header field support + + The GNU Emacs distribution includes MH-E. + + MH-E is maintained at SourceForge: + + http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/ + +From: Chris Menzel +Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:02:38 -0600 + + The terminal-oriented, fast, and powerful mutt mail client not only + supports the MH mail format but also supports .mh_sequences files, + providing a robust interface to MH. It is also amazingly + configurable and is very adept at handling MIME attachments and HTML + mail. + + Unlike MH, the displayed message numbers do not necessarily + correspond to the message filenames. This makes threading and + sorting lightning fast but slower to display very large folders. + + http://www.mutt.org/ + +From: Brent Welch +Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:42:15 -0800 + + EXMH is a user interface for the MH mail system written in TCL/TK. + + Exmh has MIME support, color feedback in the scan listing, a folder + display with one label per folder, clever scan caching, facesaver + bitmap display; background inc, various inc styles, searching over + folder listing and message body, a dialog-box interface to MH pick, + a simple built-in emacs-like editor, interfaces to other editors, + user preferences, user hacking support. For more info or to obtain + exmh, see: + + http://exmh.sourceforge.net/ + +From: "Eric D. Friedman" +Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:52:44 -0800 + + Mhtake is a perl script that lets you add people to your mail + aliases file by typing mhtake [message #]. + + http://orion.oac.uci.edu/~friedman/mhtake.txt + +From: Steinar Bang +Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:51:08 +0100 + + Mew (an Emacs interface to MH that has MIME and PGP capabilities) is + found at: + + ftp://ftp.aist-nara.ac.jp/pub/elisp/Mew/mew-current.tar.gz + + [MH-E has had these capabilities since version 7.0 so mew is + obsolete if you use MH-E.--Ed] + +From: James Perkins +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + Vmh is designed for people using the bulletin-board features of MH, + where mail is stored in packed (single-file) folders. As a result, + use of this program cannot be mixed with the use of normal MH + commands. Vmh is a part of the official MH distribution. + +From: James Perkins +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + Xmh is a X11 mouse-based MH browsing tool. It is very powerful and + feature-filled and thus comes with a moderate learning curve. Its + dependence on the X11 environment makes it very reconfigurable, but + only by people well-versed in X applications programming. Its + message reply built-in-editor interface is not always popular among + those used to having MH bring up the editor of their choice. + +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + xmh is part of the standard X Window System distribution from the X + Consortium. Ultrix also ships dxmail which is similar. + + ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/xmh.shar.Z 162k + +From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + Here's a version of xmh that includes MIME. + + ftp://aun.uninett.no/pub/mail/mixmh/mixmh-0.3.tar.Z 232k + +From: Nathaniel Borenstein +Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:04:51 -0800 + + Metamail is a package that can be used to convert virtually ANY + mail-reading program on Unix into a multi-media mail-reading + program. It is an extremely generic implementation of MIME + (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), the proposed standard for + multi-media mail formats on the Internet. The implementation is + extremely flexible and extensible, using a "mailcap" file mechanism + for adding support for new data formats when sent through the mail. + At a heterogeneous site where many mail readers are in use, the + mailcap mechanism can be used to extend them all to support new + types of multi-media mail by a single addition to a mailcap file. + + The metamail distribution comes complete with a small patch for each + of over a dozen popular mail reading programs, including Berkeley + mail, mh, Elm, Xmh, Xmail, Mailtool, Emacs Rmail, Emacs VM, Andrew, + and others. Note that the MH patches are now integrated into MH 6.8. + + ftp://ftp.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z + +From: Tom Christiansen +Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:55:24 -0800 + + Plum is a highly configurable and extensible screen-oriented + front-end for processing MH mail on ASCII terminals. Unlike MH-E, + the extension language used in plum is perl, not LISP. Plum offers + many of the advantages of xmh, but lacks several of xmh's + disadvantages. The look&feel derives more from vi than from emacs. + Key bindings and functions may be changed on the fly to suit the + user's preference. It offers filename and word completion on folder, + variables, and command names. + + Until it is included in the standard distribution (under + miscellany), you can find a copy on: + + http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/plum.gz 29k + + or mail requests to Tom + +From: Jerry Sweet +Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + Mhunify is a set of perl scripts and templates that provides + shell-level MH functionality with USENET news. Since MH supports + MIME, MIME-format news articles just work. I've found that being + able to handle news in the same way that I handle email is very + useful, although there are some tradeoffs. + + Mhunify also treats MH folders just like news groups. If you + subscribe to several mailing lists, and your email is automatically + delivered to separate folders, say, via procmail or via MMDF's + .maildelivery, the mhunify package lets you progress automatically + through your folders just as you would news groups. + + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhunify.shar.gz + +From: Dale Carstensen +Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + olmh is a demo for OLIT (Open Look Interface Toolkit, the Open Look + wrapper to Xt) in Sun's Open Windows 3 that does handle 3rd and + subsequent levels of nesting of folders. + + Obtain the Open Windows 3 distribution CD/ROM from Sun (SPARC only). + To do this, call 1-800-USA-4SUN and send tone "2" for telemarketing + after it answers. The 4.1.2 CD/ROM may also have Open Windows 3. The + list price for the 4.1.2 CD/ROM is $200. + +From: James Perkins +Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + Vmail is a curses-based, vi-like message browser which calls on MH + programs to manipulate mail. It can be used on almost any terminal. + It organizes mail folders into index pages, from which a message can + be selected to be shown, replied-to, forwarded, refiled, deleted, + and so on. The vi-like interface and command keystrokes are + comfortable to less-experienced Unix users, and it is a small, + compact program, unlike the MH-E Emacs package. + + This version of vmail has been bugfixed and enhanced from the + original vmail published on the net in 1987 by J. Zobel. + + ftp://ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.unix/volume12/vmail/part0*.Z 46k + ftp://ftp.ucs.ubc.ca/pub/mh/vmail.[1-3]of3.Z 58k + + Or mail requests to James. + +From: James Perkins +Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + vmailtool may be for you if you have a Sun workstation. It is a + button gadget panel for the above-mentioned vmail program. It brings + vmail into the windows era where people no longer need to memorize + specific command keystrokes. It also provides a mail icon with the + flag that pops up when new mail arrives. Again, this is a compact, + simple tool, unlike the powerful xmh program. Still, it's a welcome + alternative for many people who are running SunView or OpenWindows. + + ftp://ftp.ucs.ubc.ca/pub/mh/vmailtool.Z 18k + + or mail requests to James. + + MMH, My Mail Handler, is a Motif interface for reading and sending + mail. It uses the MH commands to actually handle sending a receiving + messages. It does not support all the capabilities of MH, but offers + a large enough subset to handle the majority of users. Its intended + user is someone between "bumbling email novice" and "sophisticated + user". Hooks are provided to allow the user to customize and add new + commands. + + ftp://ftp.eos.ncsu.edu/pub/bill/bill.tar.Z 120k + +From: Andrew Waugh +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + X.500 lookups: If a name is enclosed in square brackets, when + entering a destination address: + + To: [Greg Wickham,CSIRO] + + a search will be made in the X.500 Directory for the individual's + entry. If an address exists then it will be extracted and placed + into the headers. Mail requests for the software to the author. + +From: Barbara Dyker +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + QuemeMH is an email based service request and tracking system + based on the Rand Mail Handler. + + ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/sysadmin/utilities/queuemh.tar.Z 98k + +From: +Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + Qmh is an MH-based group mail management tool. Written entirely in + perl, Qmh combines the best aspects of MH with group mail heuristics + and delivers a sensible package for all levels of Unix users. A + limitless number of individual queues and associated groups of + permitted users can be established. + + Specific functionality includes the following modes of operation; + checking header dates and sending reminder/deadline mail, editing + existing messages, help screens, creating new messages from scratch + or exiting messages, resolving messages, scanning queue folders, and + annotating with status both by editing and sending mail. + + Qmh is a single generic program in and of itself from which all + modes of operation are invoked. Additionally, each separate queue + may be accessed via a link to the single program. All system + configuration is maintained in a single file that is read upon each + invocation of Qmh. Formatting and template files are provided in the + system library, although individual users can override the defaults + simply by creating equivalent files in their own MH mail directory. + + Qmh provides a powerful database-like functionality by allowing + limitless per-queue X-Qmh-<$value> headers to be included in + messages. These "fields" then form the context of the queue messages + and provide a user-defined, but yet structured environment for + queries, reporting, and random information. + + Qmh is designed to provide a complete solution for SA groups, help + desks, support organizations, or wherever two or more individuals + are trying to manage multiple mail requests. + + Qmh is also compatible with versions of xmh that provide user-level + command buttons. Provided in the Qmh package is a ~/.Xdefaults + template file that's setup to harness the power of Qmh. + +From: Jerry Peek , Shannon Yeh +Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:23:21 -0800 + + MacMH and PC/MH: + These were available only for non-commercial degree-granting + institutions from: + + Networking & Communication Systems + 115 Pine Hall + Stanford University + Stanford, CA 94305-4122 + Phone: +1 415-723-3909 + + See also: + ftp://netix.com/pub/pc-mh-info/* + + For more PC/MH info, contact: + + Netix Communications, Inc. + 15375 Barranca Parkway + Building G, Suite 107 + Irvine, CA 92718 + Phone: +1 714-727-9532 + FAX: +1 714-727-3922 + Internet: info at netix.com + + In addition, you might try Wollongong, to see if they have something you + can get. + + [This information appears to be out of date. Please send me + pointers to valid information. Potential sites include + jessica.stanford.edu.--Ed] + + Two other potential methods to run MH under Windows: Run Unix + under Windows with VMware (http://www.vmware.com/) or try to + compile nmh with the Cygwin tools (http://www.cygwin.com/). + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 01.06 How can I print a MH manual? +From: Bill Wohler , Jos Vos +Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:21:49 -0700 + + First, check out the documents available on http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/. + + To order a copy by mail, see the section on how to get MH by mail + (see "Where can I get MH?" and "What references exist for MH?"). + + To print your own copy, first obtain the MH sources (see "Where can + I get MH?") if you don't already have it. Go into the "doc" + directory and run "make guide" to create the administrators guide + and "make manual" to create a user's manual which includes tutorials + and man pages. If the doc directory is empty or is missing the + Makefile, you'll have to run "mhconfig MH" in the conf directory so + that the documentation with correct local information is created. + + For properly formatting the documentation (at least the manual + pages) you might even have to install MH, because a reference to a + tmac.h file in the MH lib directory is made in the manual pages. + + You can also ftp the ASCII or postscript versions: + + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/doc/tutorial.ps.Z 65k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/doc/ADMIN.ps.Z 56k + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/doc/MH.ps.Z (man pages) 261k + ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/doc/tutorial.ps.Z + ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/doc/ADMIN.ps.Z + ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/doc/MH.ps.Z (man pages) + + Or, you can send a note to with a body + containing the following: + + send /mail/mh/papers-ps/tutorial.ps.Z + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 01.07 How should I report bugs? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:12:42 -0700 + + Bugs in nmh should be reported at: + + http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=nmh + + Bugs in MH-E should be reported at: + + http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=113357&group_id=13357 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 01.08 How can I convert from my mailer to MH? +From: Mike Sutton +Date: 7 Jul 1995 10:03:50 GMT + + The unrmail function will convert rmail format to mbox format. + +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + If you use one of a mail agent like 'mail', 'mailx', 'elm' or + 'mush', converting to MH is easy. When you run the 'inc' command, + it reads all new messages from the system mailbox into your 'inbox' + folder. Those mail agents also have separate files or "folders" + that hold messages in the same format as the system mailbox. You + can read them with the 'inc -file' command. For example, to read + the messages from your 'mbox' mail file into your MH 'inbox' folder, + you'd type: + + % cd + % cp mbox mbox.backup + % inc -file mbox + + If you see the usual "Incorporating new mail into inbox..." message + and a scan listing, the messages probably were converted. Read some + or all of them (with the 'show' command) and be sure. The 'inc' + won't remove your mbox unless you use '-truncate'. + +From: "Jason R. Mastaler" +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + You can also specify an alternate folder to inc. Here's how you + can convert all your folders en masse: + + for arg in `cat flist`; do + echo "converting $arg" + inc +"$arg" -file "$arg" -silent + done + + Section D.4 of the MH book's second edition lists two scripts to + convert mail files to MH folders: babyl2mh to convert from rmail's + BABYL format; vmsmail2mh to convert from VMS's mail (see "What + references exist for MH") to see where the book's examples can be + ftped from). These scripts aren't in the third edition but are in + its archive file. + +From: Vivek Khera +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + I rewrote the above script in Perl since the original script doesn't + work for some people (see "babyl2mh.pl" below). + +From: Juergen Nickelsen +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + You can remove the second to last second line ("> $input"), so + that the script doesn't zero out your RMAIL file. + + Another alternative is to replace this line with "inc -file $tmpmbox + $folder && > $input", so that the RMAIL is only zeroed if inc + successfully incorporated the mail. Finally one could add a switch + -z, so that the RMAIL file is only zeroed if the switch is given. + (See "Appendix inco".) + +Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + Use the following to convert a BABYL format file to Unix mail + format. + + ftp://inf.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/gnu/emacs_extras/rmailtovm.el.Z + 6k + + See also MH book second edition (Appendix D). + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 01.09 What is the copyright status of nmh? +From: Richard Coleman +Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:16:58 -0700 + + nmh is distributed under a variant of the classical BSD copyright. + Check the COPYRIGHT file in the nmh distribution for the details. + There are some specific files which were contributed to the original + MH package that are copyrighted by their original author. We have + retained the copyright notices of these authors in these files. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.00 ***** Building MH ***** +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.01 What machines does MH run on? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:22:55 -0700 + + MH isn't just for Unix any more. Versions are reported to run on + OS/2 (see "How can I build MH on OS/2?"), Windows (see "How can I + build MH on Windows?"), and Mac (see "How can I build MH on Mac?"). + Oh yeah, the Mac is now Unix. Maybe Windows Longhorn will be built + on Unix too. + +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + If you have a computer running Unix, you can probably run MH. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.02 How do I build MH? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:13:12 -0700 + + If you're using Linux, you can simply install the nmh or MH package + which is available in most distributions. + + If you want to build nmh, follow the directions in the file named + INSTALL. Basically, it's simply "./configure; make; make install." + + If you have MH on the other hand, if you carefully read the file + named READ-ME in the root of the source hierarchy, you should not + have any trouble building MH. + + If you're having troubles building MH, it could be that the problem + has already been fixed, but hasn't yet gotten into an official + release. Please see http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/ for more info. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.03 What options should I use? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800 + + BERK: Do NOT include the BERK option (in versions 6.7 or later)! + BERK breaks the mh-format functions that take apart address lines, + for example mbox, from, and friendly. This would really put a crimp + on my replcomps file. + + LOCKF: if you have NFS, you need to lock your mailbox with lockf() + so the lock will be honored by all machines on the local network. + If you have the lockf() system call, include LOCKF. + + JQ Johnson makes the point that one + should use this option carefully since it requires a robust lockf() + call. For example, this option caused serious problems on his SunOS + 4.1.1. He suggested using LOK_BELL instead, and adding "lockstyle: + 1" to $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor). + + ATZ: makes your timezones print like "EST" instead of "-0500". Much + prettier. --Stephen Gildea + + However, Tony Landells replies: "Yes; + very pretty. How unfortunate that timezone names are so ambiguous, + so that EST can be interpreted, at a minimum, as (American) Eastern + Standard Time, (Australian) Eastern Standard Time, or (Australian) + Eastern Summer Time (and yes, I think it's dumb having the same + acronym for both normal and Summer time, but that's a different + problem). While the numeric timezones may not look as nice, they + are, at least, reasonably unambiguous. I would urge anyone who ever + intends/hopes/expects to use email outside the U.S. to NOT use ATZ + (sorry Stephen)." + + At any rate, the conf/examples directory has been updated and + contains many examples show you which options are required on your + platform and which are optional (in the upcoming version MH 6.8). At + any rate, it is recommended that you examine the options in the + example configuration files, and read about them in READ-ME. + + RPATHS: a side-effect is that slocal writes messages to your system + maildrop without the MMDF C-A's that separate messages, so your BSD + tools like from work. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.04 What do I need to do to use POP? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 23:31:01 -0700 + + MH6.7 (and earlier versions too) include a server for version 3 of POP. + +From: Morgan Fletcher +Date: 14 Mar 1996 19:24:23 -0800 + + Ensure that /etc/services contains the following: + + pop2 109/tcp postoffice # POP version 2 + pop2 109/udp + ->pop 110/tcp # POP version 3 (MH's inc thinks it's "pop") + ->pop 110/udp + pop3 110/tcp # POP version 3 + pop3 110/udp + + Also compile with the POP options: POP, DPOP, RPOP, etc. + +From: Richard Coleman +Date: 06 Feb 1997 03:43:17 -0500 + + To get MH to use the pop3 service, add POPSERVICE=pop3 to your MH + configuration and recompile: + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.05 Does MH support IMAP? +From: Lyndon Nerenberg +Date: 27 Jul 1999 11:33:39 -0600 + + Run exmh on the laptop, and modify your .mh_profile to inc using + APOP. This is how I run MH-E and it works fine. (I did have to + modify MH-E a wee bit to allow it to prompt for the password. You + would likely have to do something similar with exmh.) + + As a spare time project I'm adding enough IMAP support to MH (6.8.3) + to allow you to 'inc -imap [-imapfolder foo]'. If I ever get this + done I'll stick the diffs up somewhere. (It's not a big priority as + I can get at my IMAP INBOX using APOP.) + +From: Tim Showalter , John Prevost +Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:34:56 -0400 + + We are developing fmh and intend to support as much of MH as is + feasible. However, MH and IMAP don't necessarily agree as to what + things are going to look like. MH has static message numbers until + you pack a folder; IMAP keeps two numbers on a message, one which is + absolutely static and one which is relative to the top of a mailbox. + Messages in IMAP are essentially immutable. IMAP doesn't + (currently) allow message annotations. fmh will keep state with a + background daemon instead of writing it to disk, and will probably + try and keep as little on disk as possible. + + fmh doesn't understand MH folders at the moment, and probably won't + for a really long time, if ever. As I said before, we're mostly + interested in the IMAP aspects as we're using a networked file + system and saving stuff on the local disk just isn't an option. + + fmh is not MH at a very fundamental level. It is very unlikely that + it will be merged, as we're not quite as interested in creating + something that is MH and IMAP as we are in writing a good IMAP + client. Also, the MH code isn't going to take the introduction of + IMAP without a near complete rewrite. + + It is not available yet. Inquiries are welcome at + . + +From: Rahul Dhesi +Date: 23 Sep 1996 08:39:52 GMT + + What prevents people from doing a telnet to their mail server, + logging in, and firing up MH directly? Site policy? An operating + system that does not let MH compile or run? Overloaded machine with + insufficient processing power for MH? All these are site-specific + problems and the solution lies in solving them locally, not in + forcing MH to go over IMAP. + + IMAP was never designed to emulate a filesytem. MH was designed to + make direct advantage of the filesytem structure. There is no + compatibility between the two. By the time IMAP is revised enough + to support MH you will have reinvented NFS. + + There *is* scope for redesign here, though. It would be nice to + have a single-user filesystem. Create a binary telnet session to + the filesystem server, log in as yourself, and then over that + session run a filesystem protocol. Normal filesystem protections at + the other end will be sufficient for all permissions checking, so + the filesystem protocol would need to do no other permissions + checking. The question of whom to export directories to would go + away: They are exported to whoever completes a successful login, and + accessible to the user if he would be able to access them on the + server as his login id. You could even use challenge-response for + the initial login, coupled with ssh-based encryption, so you + automatically have a secure filesystem without even trying. + + IMAP is too restricted in its scope to be easily modifiable to + emulate such a filesystem. It would have to be a redesign from + scratch. + +From: John Romine +Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:45:27 -0700 + + No. MH only supports retrieving mail using POP3. POP3 is on the + "standards track"--it is now an elective Internet Draft Standard + (see RFC 1939 for more details). At this point, IMAP[23] are + "experimental, limited use" protocols; it is unlikely that MH will + support them. + +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:45:32 -0700 + + Since John posted the message above, IMAP has progressed from an + "experiemental, limited use" protocol. While IMAP is not universal, + many vendors now have implementations. + + I've found several things which might help. First, a definition + lifted from the Pine FAQ: + + What is IMAP? + + IMAP stands for "Internet Message Access Protocol". An IMAP client + program on any platform at any location on the Internet can access + email folders on an IMAP server. While the messages appear to be + local, they reside on the server until the client explicitly moves + or deletes them. The IMAP protocol is a superset of POP, containing + all POP commands plus more. For a comparison of IMAP and POP, see + the paper Comparing Two Approaches to Remote Mailbox Access: IMAP + vs. POP (in ftp.cac.washington.edu:/mail/imap.vs.pop). IMAP is what + allows Pine (or any other IMAP client) to get to email on a central + campus email server. There are current IETF working groups revising + IMAP and readying it to become an Internet standard. A copy of the + latest IMAP draft may be obtained from: + + ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/latest-imap-draft + + For a list of IMAP clients, see the file imap.software, in the same + directory. + +From: David L Miller +Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + ipop3d from the UW IMAP toolkit can operate in a couple modes. As a + straight POP3 server, it uses the same C-client library as imapd, so + it co-exists comfortably with imapd. It can also operate as a + POP-to-IMAP gateway so that your POP-only clients can access IMAP + services. + + ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z 1.0M + +From: Mark Crispin +Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + The only answer I can give for [how MH users can use IMAP] is that + Pine can read mailboxes in MH format; and that someone might in the + future develop a version of MH that can use IMAP. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.06 Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc but not slocal? +From: John Romine +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + If "mailgroup" is set, inc is made set-group-id to this group name. + Some SYS5 systems want this to be set to "mail". Set this if + /usr/spool/mail (or /usr/mail) is not world-writable. These + changes were contributed by Peter Marvit, and "inc" is very careful + about its use of the set-gid privilege. + + Note that slocal doesn't know how to deal with this, and will not + work under these systems; just making it set-group-id will open a + security hole (since it doesn't know when to drop the set-gid + privileges). If you're using "mailgroup", you should remove slocal + (and its man page) from your system. + + Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent. + (See "What mail filters are available?") + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.07 How can I build MH on Solaris 2? +From: Richard Coleman +Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500 + + nmh builds out of the box on Solaris. + +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:56:31 -0700 + + See http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/ for patches you may need. + +From: Neil Rickert , + Scott K. Hutton , + Casper H.S. Dik +Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:57:25 -0700 + + First, don't use the BSD compatible stuff. Make sure that the Sun + or GNU compiler appear before the BSD compiler in your PATH (e.g., + /usr/ccs/bin). + + Second, don't use GNU make. Make sure that the Sun make appears + before the GNU make in your PATH. + + Use conf/examples/solaris2.sun.com and fix the paths, if necessary. + Optionally change the following to use the GNU compiler, to perform + optimization, and to create shared libraries. + + cc gcc + ccoptions -O -g -msupersparc + slflags -shared + + Fix mhn.c with the diff in + + http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/si_value_2.3. + + Optionally incorporate the Content-Length header fix. (See "How can + I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?") + + Linking with /usr/ucblib/libucb.so is incompatible with including + . + + When compiling, you can ignore the following warning: + + fmtcompile.c", line 238: warning: semantics of "/" change in ANSI C; + use explicit cast + + If you're using AFS, you'll have to replace any occurrence of "ln" + with "ln -s" wherever the make dies when it tries to make a link + "on a different file system." + + See also ftp://ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.faq. + +Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + Unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH. + +From: Gary Strand +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + To cure slocal's Segmentation Fault problems, I decided to try 'cc' + instead of 'gcc' (an alleged no-no under Solaris) and MH built just + fine, and it's working perfectly. + +From: "Jason R. Mastaler" +Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 17:35:13 -0400 + + Don't use "ldoptions -s" with gcc. It may cause the compile to fail + with: + + gcc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 11 + *** Error code 1 + +From: "Jeffrey T. Eaton" +Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 15:30:36 GMT + + Fixed [DBM_PAGFNO_NOT_AVAILABLE error] by getting the latest gdbm + package, compiling and installing it and the dbm/ndbm compatability + stuff, and moving Sun's broken ndbm.h out of /usr/include. + + To fix "../sbr/libmh.so: undefined reference to + `__builtin_va_arg_incr'", add "option __BUILTIN_VA_ARG_INCR" to your + MH configuration. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.08 How can I build MH on Linux? +From: Richard Coleman +Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500 + + nmh should build out of the box for most Linux systems. + +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 23:04:53 -0800 + + The Debian distribution of Linux comes with an MH and nmh packages. See + + http://www.debian.org/. + + See also http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/linux/. + +From: "James A. Robinson" +Date: 17 Apr 96 20:39:02 GMT + + Somebody on Debian ported it to Linux ELF. Look on + ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/binary/mail/mh_6.8.4-13.deb for + the .deb package of MH (it's a compressed tar file). The source is + in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/source/mail/mh_6.8.4-orig.tar.gz + and mh_6.8.4-13.diff.gz. + +From: Brian Kirouac +Date: 18 Apr 96 14:00:20 GMT + + If you are running Redhat and have rpm available you can also use + ftp://???/pub/redhat-3.0.3/i386/RedHat/RPMS/mh-6.8.3-5.i386.rpm. + The source code is in + ftp://???/pub/redhat-3.0.3/i386/SRPMS/mh-6.8.3-5.i386.rpm + +From: "Brandon S. Allbery" +Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 16:18:50 -0800 + + The current patch is the first one listed below. The old patch only + works with libc-4.4, which is no longer used. The current patch is + split into two pieces, as with the previous patch, but now the + divisions are purely functional: the first diff enables MH to + compile, the second allows creation of a shared library. [Ed: The + paths are up to date, but I think the info in this paragraph is + old.] + + Recent versions of GNU make choke on MH's makefiles. Unfortunately, + the shared library patches depend on "export". If you have problems + building MH, remove the "export" lines from all of the makefiles (if + you applied the shared library patches) and try using BSD pmake + instead. + + If you don't want to compile MH, the second file contains + pre-compiled ready-to-run binaries which can simply be extracted in + the root directory. + + ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Mail/readers/mh-6.8.3-diffs.tar.gz + ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Mail/readers/mh-6.8.3-bin.tar.gz + + The sizes are 650k and 22k respectively. + + Note that these files are occasionally "cleaned up" by accident so + please let me know if they are missing. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.09 How can I build MH on IRIX? +From: Richard Coleman +Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500 + + nmh should build out of the box for Irix. + +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:33:22 -0700 + + See http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/sgi/ for patches you may need. + +From: Arne K. Frick +Date: 06 Jun 1995 18:30:01 GMT + + There is a file at viz.tamu.edu:/pub/sgi (see FAQ) containing a diff + and sample configuration. If you cannot locate it, I can mail it to + you. Note, however, that I had tremendous difficulties with them + under 5.3: + + 1. Be sure to use /bin/make, NOT GNU make. + 2. patch vomits over the diff. You can get around this by increasing the + "fuzz factor" to 4. + 3. The Makefile target for the shared library doesn't work. I had to do it + by hand. + + But I'm stuck compiling mhn.c. + +From: Shankar Unni +Date: 9 Jun 1995 01:53:48 GMT + + The fix for compiling mhn.c is in + + http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/si_value_2.3. + +From: Jack Repenning +Date: 25 Jul 1995 02:35:41 GMT + + (See "IRIX config file") below. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.10 How can I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field? +From: Casper H.S. Dik +Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:38:30 -0700 + + Apply http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/content_length to + your MH distribution and add the configuration option + "CONTENT_LENGTH". It also includes the si_ fix in + + http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/si_value_2.3 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.11 How can I build MH on HP-UX? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:50:54 -0700 + + If you find that your zotnet/tws directory isn't compiling, upgrade + your MH (see "What is the current version/status of MH?") which + includes fixes to lexedit.sed. + + See http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/hp/ for for patches you may need. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.12 Can I prevent adding the local hostname to addresses behind firewalls? + +From: Ted Remillard +Date: 24 Jun 1996 08:53:42 -0700 + + You can get MH to stop managing the headers and let the email server + to do it. To do this, build MH with the options DUMB and REALLYDUMB. + In the $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file, set the server option to + the IP address of the email server. After this is done, MH sends + email directly to the email server and Local email To: and From: + fields just have the user's simple email address, e.g., , and + the remote email From: header will contain user@domainname, e.g., + . + + Don't forget to define the REALLYDUMB option in the file + sbr/addrsbr.c described below. + +From: Bret Rothenberg +Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 12:25:24 -0800 (PST) + + Yes, use the "localname" parameter in "$MHLIB/mts.conf" (mtstailor) + to specify the desired hostname. + +From: Ken Hornstein +Date: 18 Aug 1995 23:51:48 -0400 + + If you're behind a firewall and sendmail gives you fits because MH + adds the node name or site name to each address in the To: and CC: + fields, you'll need to modify the MH source. + + The relevant source has to do with the REALLYDUMB option in + sbr/addrsbr.c. Essentially what you need to do is set it up so + REALLYDUMB is turned on (normally, it's turned off if you have MMDF + or SMTP turned on). This will do what you want. I did this at our + site, and it's been working great. The stuff for REALLYDUMB starts + around line 613. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.13 Is there a patch to fix this or that? +From: Kimmo Suominen +Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 13:40:35 -0800 + + The MH Patch Archive has been opened at + + http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/ + ftp://ftp.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/ + + It is a collection of patches to MH (the RAND MH Message Handling + System), a set of electronic mail programs in the public domain. + Since the last complete release of MH (version 6.8.3) UNIX systems + have evolved making changes in the MH code necessary. Several new + UNIX systems have emerged requiring new configuration templates and + examples. This archive tries to collect all these fixes and + enhancements that in the past have been available only through + word-of-mouth and occasional reposts to newsgroups or mailing lists. + + The initial archive layout and the very time consuming collecting + and categorizing of patches has been done by Jerry Peek. + + I will be the primary maintainer of the archive. Even though I will + be monitoring several sources for new material (mainly the + comp.mail.mh newsgroup but also the mailing lists + , and + ), I'd like to encourage everyone to submit + patches also directly to the archive at . + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.14 How can I build MH on OS/2? +From: Sanjay Aiyagari +Date: 21 Nov 1996 19:37:10 GMT + + ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/os/os2/network/MH/ + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.15 Do any POP/IMAP servers handle MH format? +From: "Carl S. Gutekunst" +Date: 27 May 1997 07:24:34 GMT + + The University of Washington POP3 and IMAP servers can be backended + by a variety of stores, including MH. This is the basis for + Netscape's store, curiously enough. I haven't looked closely at how + Mark Crispin implemented support for the new IMAP4 features when + using an MH backend; it seems like there is a lot of computation + when opening a folder for the first time, writing in the UID fields + and such. But it basically appears to work. + +From: Lyndon Nerenberg +Date: 27 Jul 1999 11:36:25 -0600 + + But [the UW IMAP server] can't delete/expunge from MH folders. (At + least I've never been able to get it to work, and I've tried just + about everything.) #mh in UW imapd isn't something I'd recommend to + any serious MH user. + +From: Mark Crispin +Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:43:25 -0700 + + > But it can't delete/expunge from MH folders. + + That's a very old version. delete/expunge has been in imap-4.x for a + long while. However, there's no sticky flags. + + > #mh in UW imapd isn't something I'd recommend to any serious MH user. + + The converse is also true. The two don't play ball very well. + +From: Dieter Weber +Date: 11 Feb 2003 04:23:38 -0800 + + The UW imap server supports MH folders. In order to see the MH + mailboxes, you need to "subscribe" to the folders or add them to the + .mailboxlist file in your home directory. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.16 How can I build MH on Windows? +From: Satyaki Das +Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:57:19 -0700 + + I have gotten MH-E to work on Windows (under Cygwin) using Earl + Hood's patched nmh. It was really quite simple, but not very + portable. I just needed to add/subtract "c:/cygwin" from a couple of + places. Now it can read and send mail (even does PGP attachments). + Thought this might be of interest to those of you stuck using + Windows at work. + +From: Earl Hood +Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 20:30:44 GMT + + I've made a tar/bz2 bundle available at + + + + This includes the patched source with binaries pre-built. + + I just remembered that I also had to hack the makefiles to get + things to install since windoze executables have to end with .exe. I + hacked the generated makefiles, so if you rerun configure, you may + lose the hacks. Also, I believe the install will fail when trying to + install the documentation, so to force things do: + + make -i install + + The binaries and support files should get installed (under + /usr/local/nmh), but the docs probably won't. + + Then you will need to edit /usr/local/nmh/etc/mts.conf to reflect + your local configuration. + + If anyone has any problems installing, I could zip up my + /usr/local/nmh since I think it contains everything needed for + runtime usage. + +From: Bill Goffe +Date: 25 May 1999 18:13:55 GMT + + If you have Windows, consider looking at VMware + + http://www.vmware.com/ + + which provides a virtual machine where you can run Unix and + therefore MH under Windows. + +From: Ted Nolan +Date: 24 May 99 17:20:27 GMT + + The latest Cygnus Cygwin, GNU tools that run under Windows, + + http://www.cygwin.com/ + + seems to work pretty well and may well be able to build nmh. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 02.17 How can I build MH on a Mac? +From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse +Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:52:47 +0200 + + nmh compiles on the G4 iBook running Mac OS X 10.3.7 more or less out + of the box with the powerpc HOST option. Use make all install. + A fink package is available to make this even easier. + + metamail does not work out of the box. I received a patch that did + get it to run. + + For exmh, first use fink to install the tcltk package. Then use fink + to install exmh. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.00 ***** Scanning & Reading ***** +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.01 What do I do if scan shows the wrong date? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + Upgrade to MH 6.8 or nmh. + +From: Darryl Okahata +Date: 19 Jan 2000 23:01:10 -0800 + + MH 6.8.3 and nmh 1.0 still have a minor buglet where sortm doesn't + always sort messages properly. If a (questionable) mail client sends + messages with 2-digit years, like: + + Date: Sat, 23 Oct 09 22:02:01 EST + + or sends out buggy dates like (as buggy versions of Elm do): + + Date: Sat, 23 Oct 100 22:02:01 EST + + then sortm will not sort these messages properly. + + I have submitted patches to nmh-workers. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.02 How would one go about reading Usenet with MH? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 12:32:09 -0800 + + You can post via mail. Send your article to + with a legitimate Newsgroups + field. + +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + You can save articles in the news readers for later perusal with MH. + + First, create a symbolic link from your mail directory (e.g., usenet) to + your news directory (e.g., "ln -s ~/News ~/Mail/usenet"). You can then + treat your news directory as a mail folder. Thus, to select a news + group, use "folder +usenet/comp/mail/mh". + + To set the default save location correctly in rn, use: + + rn -M -/ + + or in your nn presentation sequence: + + news.announce. +$F/$N + comp.mail.mh + + . + . + + If there's news spooled on your machine (that is, not via NNTP) then + you can read a newsgroup with commands like: + + show first +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh + next + ... + + You can also use sequences to keep track of what you've read. MH + will automatically set a "cur" sequence in each newsgroup you read + that way. So, to continue reading the newsgroup sometime later, + after you've read some other folder, you can do: + + next +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh + + and you'll read the next (new) article (if any) in that newsgroup. + + Note that this can eventually make your private context file pretty + huge; if there's a group you don't read often, you can remove its + context entries with a command like: + + rmf +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh + + Don't try that on a folder full of mail (a folder that isn't + read-only), though... in that case, it'll remove all the messages! + + I haven't looked into posting. It seems like it shouldn't be hard. + You could set up a "sendproc" that would look at outgoing email + messages. If the message had a Newsgroups: header field, your + sendproc could call inews(1) instead of post(8). I haven't seen + much in the MH manpages or documentation about sendprocs (though I + haven't looked for a couple of years...). See the "mysend" + script in the MH book section 7.1.4 (13.13), or the URL: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/senove.htm#ASAtDm + + A threaded news reader like trn or tin is so much nicer, though, + that reading news with MH may not be worth the hassle. + + See also MH book section 9.9 (8.7), or the URL: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/shafol.htm + +From: Stephen Gildea +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + Although news readers are better, if one really wants to use + MH, bbc will do the job. For example, "bbc comp.mail.mh" reads this + newsgroup. To enable bbc, you have to specify "bboards" when you + build MH. + +From: Kimmo Suominen +Date: 15 Aug 1996 18:18:10 GMT + + Sendmail v8 comes with MAILER(pop) which was written for the MH + spop. Since I use bboards with NNTP, I never looked at the bboards + setup. + +Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + See mhunify in (see also "What other MH software is + available?"). + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.03 How can I search through multiple folders? +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + Recurse through the folders (in csh and sh): + + % foreach f (`folders -f`) $ for f in `folders -f` + ? pick [switches] +$f > pick [switches] +$f + ? end > done + + Or create a folder that contains links to all messages (in csh and sh): + + % foreach f (`folders -f | grep -v -x ln`) + ? refile -src +$f -link all +ln + ? end + + $ for f in `folders -f | grep -v -x ln` + > do refile -src +$f -link all +ln + > done + + and in the future, refile messages with "refile +folder +ln". To + find something, use: + + % pick [switches] +ln + + See MH book sections 8.2.9 (7.2.9), 8.9.3 (7.8.3), or the URLs: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/finpic.htm#SeMTOnFo + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/usilin.htm#AFoFuoLi + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.04 Why don't MH format commands such as %(friendly) work? +From: Anthony Baxter +Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + The BERK option disables address parsing and therefore functions + such as %(friendly). Recompile MH without the BERK option. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.05 Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message? +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + It's not the fault of the "show" command or of MH in general. It's + your system's configuration. Check the $MHLIB/mhn.defaults + (mhn_defaults) file; if it doesn't have defaults for all content + types, add them. Or, if you can't (or shouldn't) change mhn.defaults + (mhn_defaults), you can put default entries in your MH profile file + for those content types. + + Here's the part of the mhshow(1) (mhn(1)) manpage that explains how + content types are handled. The example is for mhshow, but if you're + using mhn, you'd replace mhshow with mhn: + + First, mhshow will look for an entry of the form: + + mhshow-show-/ + + to determine the command to use to display the content. If this + isn't found, mhshow will look for an entry of the form: + + mhshow-show- + + to determine the display command. If this isn't found, mhshow has + two default values: + + mhshow-show-text/plain: %pmoreproc '%F' + mhshow-show-message/rfc822: %pshow -file '%F' + + If neither apply, mhshow will check to see if the message has a + application/octet-stream content with parameter "type=tar". If so, + mhshow will use an appropriate command. If not, mhshow will + complain. + + So, add defaults that cover the types MH doesn't handle right now + (or doesn't handle the way you want it to). Your defaults will + override corresponding defaults in the $MHLIB/mhn.defaults + (mhn_defaults) file. For example, if you don't have an HTML + editor/browser on your system, you could tell MH to use the "less" + paginator for HTML message parts: + + mhshow-show-text/x-html: less %F + + You can put that line in your MH profile. + + You can even set different defaults for different terminal types + (say, your VT100 at home and your X setup at work). Make a file in + the same format as mhn.defaults (mhn_defaults); store its pathname + in the MHSHOW (MHN) environment variable. Add a test to your shell + setup file (.bash_profile, .profile, .login) that tests the value of + the TERM variable -- and, if you have an mhshow (mhn) setup file for + that terminal type, store its pathname in the MHSHOW (MHN) variable. + + See also MH book sections 6.2.3, 9.4.4, 9.4.5, or the URLs: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/remime.htm#HomhShMe + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/confmhn.htm#ShComhsh + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/confmhn.htm#DiOChSmc + +From: Michael K. Neylon +Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + If you are not using the X Window System, you may have to add this + line to your MH profile: + + mhshow-charset-iso-8859-1: /bin/sh -c '%s' # nmh + mhn-charset-iso-8859-1: /bin/sh -c '%s' # MH + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.06 Can I get show not to run "less" so much on MIME messages? +From: Richard Coleman +Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500 + + On nmh, you can do this just by "show -nocheckmime". This will disable + the detection of MIME messages. + +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + If you say, "show all," and one of the messages was a MIME message, + your pager will be run several times on each message, rather than + once on all the messages as a whole. If you find this annoying, set + the environment variable NOMHNPROC: + + % setenv NOMHNPROC "" # csh + $ NOMHNPROC= # sh and bash + $ export NOMHNPROC + + See also MH book sections 6.2.3, 6.2.10, or the URLs: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/remime.htm#HomhShMe + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/remime.htm#Alttomhn + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.07 Why do I get "mhn: don't know how to display content"? +From: Richard Coleman +Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500 + + This has already been fixed in nmh. + +From: Keith Moore +Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:49:50 -0700 + + MH 6.8.3 has a bug where it will not handle multipart/foo correctly + if it doesn't know about foo. The patch: + + http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/all/mhn_multipart + + tells it to treat such things as if they were multipart/mixed. + + (See also "Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?"). + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.08 How can I automatically delete MH backup files? +From: mccammaa at expt05.stp.xfi.bp.com (Andy McCammont) +Date: 22 May 1995 06:27:36 -0400 + + On System V system, add this to your crontab. If you don't have + one, put this in a file, and run "crontab file". If your system + does not support personal crontab files, get your system + administrator to add an equivalent line to the system crontab file + or daily clean-up script. Note that some administrators set the + prefix character to '#'. + + # Remove old MH files + 5 5 * * * find /PATH/TO/HOME/Mail -name ",*" -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \; + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.09 Fixing "cannot fopen and lock /var/spool/mail/(user)" +From: Patrick.Wambacq at esat.kuleuven.ac.be +Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 15:00:16 +0200 + + One should put the following lines in the $MHLIB/mts.conf + (mtstailor) file: + + lockldir: + lockstyle: 1 + + This prevents MH from using kernel level locking, and uses lock + files instead. It solved the problem for me on two different + architectures. When the lockldir entry is left empty as above, the + lock file is put in the same directory as the file to be locked. If + another directory is wanted, its name should be put here. + +From: alhy at MAILBOX.SLAC.Stanford.EDU +Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:01:16 -0700 + + Often, this is caused by an NFS file lock. Don't ask me how it got + there in the first place. To remove the file lock, do the following: + + # cd /var/spool/mail + # cp user /tmp/user.tmp; rm user # save mail; remove locked file + # chown user /tmp/user.tmp # allow user to inc old mail + # su - user + user% inc -file user.tmp # incorporate user's old mail + + Any mail that you receive in the fraction of a second that the second + set of commands takes will be lost. + + (See also "Why does inc hang (on Sun)?") + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.10 Can I read my mail with a Web browser? +From: Jerry Heyman +Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:41:03 -0400 + + See http://www.squirrelmail.org/ + + SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. + It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP + protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no + JavaScript required) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It + has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and + install. SquirrelMail has all the functionality you would want + from an email client, including strong MIME support, address + books, and folder manipulation. + + No MH support. Unless you're willing to write it... + +From: J C Lawrence +Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:54:15 -0500 + + UW-imap can read MH folders although it doesn't maintain sequence + files properly. Drop any of the IMAP web front ends in front of + that. + +From: aeriksson at fastmail.fm +Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:36:52 +0100 + + Have a peek at http://wmh.sf.net/. It's been a while since I worked + on it, but it does give me what I need. + +Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 11:02:52 -0500 +From: Kent Landfield + + Hypermail now supports MIME and alternate mailbox formats and sorts + by author, date, and thread and can be read by a WWW reader. + + http://www.landfield.com/hypermail/ + +From: "Patrick A. Coronato" +Date: 8 Sep 1995 16:36:03 GMT + + MHonArc, by Earl Hood from Convex, will read MH mailboxes as well as + Unix mailboxes, create HTML "archives" and will also sort by date, + thread and author and has support for MIME. Also, MHonArc is written + in the Perl language. (You should go to this site if nothing more + than to see the cool logo!) + + http://www.mhonarc.org/ + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.11 How can I run inc automatically with POP? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:23:51 -0800 + + If MH has been compiled with RPOP, then the POP server host either + needs to have your host in /etc/hosts.equiv or in your .rhosts file. + Then add to your MH profile: + + inc: -host cuckoo + + given that "cuckoo" is the name of the your POP server. + +From: Andy Norman +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + Assuming your POP server is called cuckoo, add an entry to your MH + profile for 'inc' like so: + + inc: -noaudit -norpop -noapop -host cuckoo + + Add the following to ~/.netrc and ensure it is readable only by you + (e.g., chmod 600 .netrc): + + machine cuckoo.domain.name login joeuser password secret + + Replace the hostname, login and password with your own, of course. + The hostname probably has to be fully qualified (i.e., include the + full domain name). This example assumes that you can send mail by + other means (e.g., with SMTP). + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.12 Why does inc hang (on Sun)? +From: ericding at mit.edu (Eric J. Ding) +Date: 30 Apr 1996 00:22:01 -0400 + + This may be due to a non-robust implementation of lockf() over NFS. + Try setting lockstyle to 1 in the $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file + so that MH uses dotfile locking rather than FLOCK or LOCKF. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.13 How can I get POP to work? +From: Jonathan George +Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:23:16 GMT + + If you get the error: + + inc: -ERR Unknown command: "rpop" + + you're trying to use "rpop" as the mechanism to authenticate the + user. This mechanism is specified in RFC 1225 and then removed by + RFC 1460. + + Your POP server is (rightly) rejecting this. + + The POP specification (RFC 1939) states that authentication is done + either via a USER/PASS pair or via the APOP command. + + Try running inc with -noapop -norpop flags. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.14 How do I persuade mhshow (mhn) not to bring up a new window? +From: Joel Reicher +Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:49:04 +1100 + + I personally think [the solution below] is not the right solution. + There's a reason that new window is opened--to ensure the correct + characters are available. The "right" solution is surely to set the + MM_CHARSET env var to iso-8859-1 and make the appropriate + adjustments to the pager (in the case of less, setting + LESSCHARSET=latin1). + +From: Larry Daffner +Date: 27 Mar 1996 16:53:39 -0600 + + Add one of the following to your .mh_profile: + + mhshow-charset-iso-8859-1: %s # nmh + mhn-charset-iso-8859-1: %s # MH + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.15 How do I turn off of all the mhshow (mhn) prompts? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:33:10 -0800 + + In nmh, use mhshow -nopause. + +From: Larry Daffner +Date: 27 Mar 1996 16:53:39 -0600 + + The "part xxx" message is controlled by the -list switch to mhn so + add "mhn: -nolist" to your .mh_profile. To remove the pause, add an + entry for "mhn-show-text/plain: more '%F'" to override the default + which includes the "%p" escape. All of this is covered in the mhn + man page (sort of--you need to add 2+2). It's a bit long, but well + worth reading. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.16 Why is inc splitting messages improperly? +From: Mayank Choudhary +Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:39:29 -0700 + + MH considers "From " lines as message separators, so if this string + is found within the body, inc splits the message. + + Add the following line to your .forward + + "|/usr/bin/mailcompat " + + where user-name is your login-id. + + See mailcompat(1) for more information. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.17 Can MH thread messages? +From: "John W. Coomes" +Date: 30 Apr 1997 13:02:10 -0500 + + Sort of. You can resort your folders by Subject with: + + sortm -textfield subject + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.18 How can I avoid reading the HTML version of the message? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: 23 Jun 2000 10:19:34 -0700 + + You might find that you have two versions of the same message within + the message. For example, one part might have a content type of + text/plain and the other might be text/html. + + You may find that mhshow (mhn -show) wants to show the HTML version + This is a feature of the multipart/alternative content type. If you + prefer reading the the plain text version over the HTML version, + you'd have to remove the line in $MHLIB/mhn.defaults or + ~/.mh_profile that starts with mhshow-show-text/html + (mhn-show-text/html). Of course, the tradeoff is that you'd never be + able to view text/html at all, but you probably wouldn't care. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.19 How do I view or save attachments? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:12:15 -0800 + + Use mhshow (mhn -show) and mhstore (mhn -store) respectively. See + the man pages for more details. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.20 How do I view HTML attachments with Netscape? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:58:05 -0800 + + Add one of the following to ~/.mh_profile: + + mhshow-show-text/html: %lnetscape -remote 'openURL(file:%f, new-window)' + mhn-show-text/html: %lnetscape -remote 'openURL(file:%f, new-window)' + + The % escapes are described in the mhshow (mhn) man page. The + ", new-window" argument in the netscape invocation is optional, but + handy. After reading the message, you can dismiss the window with + M-w and go back to reading mail. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.21 Fixing folders: unable to allocate storage for msgstats +From: Pete Phillips +Date: 30 Jan 2003 03:33:57 -0800 + + I found the following in my context file: + + atr-cur-/tmp: 1 + atr-pseq-/tmp: 1 + + For some reason folders doesn't like this. Whether it's because of + permission problems or just the size of my tmp directory (about 3/4 + of a GB) I don't know, but removing these lines from my context file + fixed the problem. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 03.22 How do I recursively list message attachments? +From: Joel Reicher +Date: 31 Oct 2001 00:36:14 +1100 + + I haven't quite managed a recursive listing, but I have worked out a + recursive store, which is still useful. Hinted by a builtin display + string for mhshow, I found the following works for mhstore: + + mhstore-store-message/rfc822: | mhstore -file - + + With that, mhstore will happily recurse down storing everything on its + way. Not very discriminate, but the line can be altered to limit + without destroying the recursion: + + mhstore-store-message/rfc822: | mhstore -auto -type message/rfc822 -type image/jpeg -file - + + which also names the files automatically for good measure. + + And, FWIW, I engage this by putting it in a separate file and invoking + mhstore like + + env MHSTORE=mhn.rec mhstore + +------------------------------ + +Subject: +03.23 Why do folder and flist overlook some of my sub-folders? +From: Richard Coleman +Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:14:24 -0700 + + There was a bug in these commands which caused them to quit + searching a folder for sub-folders too early if the folder contained + sub-folders which were symbolic links. This has been improved in + nmh-0.25, but folder and flist will still not recurse into folders + that contain only symbolic links. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 04.00 ***** Filing ***** +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 04.01 Can I append MH messages to a Unix mailbox format file? +From: Richard Coleman +Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500 + + In nmh, use packf instead. + +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + Yes, see $MHLIB/packmbox. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 04.02 Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + To convert your MH folders to BABYL folders, first run the following script + on your Mail directory. + + #!/bin/sh + + for f in Mail/*; do + if [ -d $f ]; then + touch msgbox + folder=`basename $f` + echo -n packing $folder ... + packf +$folder + echo done + mv msgbox Mail-rmail/$folder + fi + done + + This assumes you don't have nested folders. Your rmail folders will be + left in $HOME/Mail-rmail in MMDF format which rmail can read. Then run + rmail-input for each folder, which converts each folder into BABYL format. + + Be sure not to append any messages before they are converted from MMDF + to BABYL, since there may be really strange results. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 04.03 Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?" +From: Richard Coleman +Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500 + + This bug has been fixed in nmh (as of version 0.20). There are no + limitations on the length of an entry in the .mh_sequences file. + +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + There is a line length limit in this file. When sequences are + unbroken (without gaps in numbering), that makes short entries in + the .mh_sequences file, like this: + + inftex: 72-8000 + + But when there are lots of numbering gaps, the entry gets long: + + inftex: 76 79-81 87 95-96 105 109 120 124 135 141 158 163... + + That's when you run into problems, and why it's good to keep the + folder packed when you can. Simply run "folder -pack +folder". + + If you're refiling a lot of messages in a large folder, you might + not be able to use sequences. Use backquotes to give the message + numbers directly to "refile". For example: + + refile +tex/info-tex `pick -to info-tex` + + That can still generate a long list of arguments to the "refile" command, + and some Unixes can't handle that. In that case, use xargs(1): + + pick -to info-tex | xargs refile +tex/info-tex + + If worse comes to worst, fire up a Bourne shell and use a "while" loop: + + pick -to info-tex | fmt | while read nums; do + refile +tex/info-tex $nums + done + + The fmt(1) command breaks long lines into manageable chunks of 72 + characters or so, splitting arguments at whitespace. When you redirect + the input of a while loop, a "read" command will read the incoming text + and store it in a shell variable line by line. This is a quick-&-dirty + way to write xargs(1) if you don't have it. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 04.04 How can you save News articles into an MH folder? +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + If your newsreader handles backquotes on its command line, you can use + the mhpath command. For instance, if your "save" command is "s": + + s `mhpath new +somefolder` + + Or if your newsreader lets you define your own commands, as in shell + aliases, you could define that as a command. + + If your newsreader can pipe an article to the standard input of a + program, use the "rcvstore" command (in the MH library). For instance, + if your "pipe" command is "|": + + | $MHLIB/rcvstore +somefolder + + Of course, you can also put that in a little shell script. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages? +From: glimpse at cs.arizona.edu +Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:26:24 -0800 + + Glimpse is a very powerful indexing and query system that allows you + to search through all your files very quickly. It can be used by + individuals for their personal file systems as well as by + organizations for large data collections. + + http://www.webglimpse.org/ + +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 17:10:59 -0800 + + For those of lesser means, I have three shell scripts for archiving, + seeking, and extracting MH messages that I have been using for + almost 10 years. Send mail if interested. Note that I intend to + switch to Glimpse if I get a moment. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 04.06 How can I remove duplicate messages? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:04:57 -0700 + + Don't let them get in there in the first place. Add the following to + your .promailrc: + + :0 + * ? formail -D 16384 $PM_CACHE/msgid + /dev/null + + If it's too late, you might be interested in mhfinddup, attached + below, which is an embellishment of the Perl script in (see + "Removing dupicate messages (Perl)). + +From: Jerry Peek +Date: 20 Nov 1995 18:51:24 GMT + + The easiest way I know of is to sort the folder by the Message-ID + field using the sortm(1) command. + + After the sort, each message should be next to its duplicates in the + folder. Use a script (shell, Perl, etc.) to weed out the + duplicates. (See "Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)"). + + The Perl script in (see "Removing dupicate messages (Perl)) does not + require that you first sort the folder. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 04.07 How can I remove holes in numbering? +From: Bill Wohler + + folder -pack + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.00 ***** Composing & Replying ***** +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.01 Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one? +From: Larry McVoy +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + I carefully reconfigured and rebuilt MH from scratch and the problem + went away. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.02 How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"? +From: Richard Coleman +Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500 + + In nmh, to include a message in a reply with a leading ">", just + use "repl -format". + +From: Alan Thew , Mike Schwager , + James T Perkins +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + When making a reply, specify a filter file on the command line: + + repl -filter repl.format + + This filter file must be in your MH mail directory (usually "Mail", + in your home directory). Here are a couple of example repl.format + files: + + overflowtext="",overflowoffset=0 + message-id:nocomponent,formatfield=\ + "In message %{text}, you wrote:" + body:component="> ",overflowtext="> ",overflowoffset=0 + + or + + overflowtext="",overflowoffset=0 + date:component="Your message dated",formatfield=\ + "%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(pretty{text})%>" + body:component="> ",overflowtext="> ",overflowoffset=0 + + Setting overflowoffset to 0 keeps MH from doing anything to + extra-long lines in the headers. In the body, however, this + behavior is overridden so that long lines are automatically broken + and a ">" is inserted before every line. You could put almost + whatever you want between those quotes, although the "standard" ">" + makes it easier to read notes that have been included several times. + The examples differ with the descriptive text that is inserted + before the included body. + + It is suggested not to use the "prompter" editor in this case, since + it is likely that you'll not want to use all of the included + message. Indeed, it is proper etiquette to edit out all unnecessary + include verbiage so readers don't have to wade through the morass to + read your pearls of wisdom. + + WARNING: the '>' appears on the first line ONLY in versions prior + to 6.7.2. Upgrade to MH 6.8. + + See also MH book sections 7.8.4 (6.7.4), 7.8.5 (6.7.5), 10.4.1 (9.4.1), + or the URLs: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/reprep-2.htm#ReaEdi + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/reprep-2.htm#Inc + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/verrep.htm#IncRep + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.03 How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + Add these two lines to your MH profile file: + + Alternate-Mailboxes: user@host1, user@host2, ... + repl: -nocc me + + The Alternate-Mailboxes also tells scan which messages are really + from you so that it can place the recipient in the scan line instead + of the sender. + +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + To get one copy, you can either: + + - Take out the "-nocc me"... then you'll get exactly one copy of + your replies (assuming all your addresses are listed in + Alternate-Mailboxes), or + + - (See also "How can I save a copy of all messages I send?"). + + For more info, see the man pages comp(1), + repl(1), forw(1), dist(1) and mh-mail(5). + + See also MH book sections 7.8.2 (6.7.2), 9.8 (8.6), or the URLs: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/reprep-2.htm#Sel + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/defmai.htm + +From: Alec Wolman +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + Listing the name of a mailing list in Alternate-Mailboxes is also a + convenient way to AVOID automatically cc-ing a mailing list when + replying to a person who sent the message to the mailing-list. + +From: Andre Srinivasan +Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:33:19 -0800 + + Rather than specify the hostname as part of the mailbox, you can + simply specify the username and it will match on any host: + + Alternate-Mailboxes: asriniva + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.04 How can I include my signature? +From: Eric W. Ziegast , + Hardy Mayer +Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + There are several ways. + + 1) The MH way. + + 1a) In your Mail directory, create files that + include your signature into the format of the message. + + ~/Mail/components: + To: + cc: + Subject: + -------- + + -- + Eric Ziegast ziegast at uunet.uu.net + UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast + + ~/Mail/replfmt + body:component="> ",compwidth=2 + :-- + :Eric Ziegast ziegast at uunet.uu.net + :UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast + + To use the replfmt file, add the following to your ~/.mh_profile: + + repl: -filter replfmt + + When comp is used, your signature is already there along with my + headers. When repl is used, the mhl program takes the body of + the letter you're replying to, prepends '> ' to each line and + then adds your signature at the end (available after version + 6.7). + + 1b) Create an "editor" which can be called from whatnow to add the + signature when desired or create a frontend to post (use the + .mh_profile line "postproc: postproc" to call it) that always + appends the .signature file before calling post to mail the + message. David J. Fiander , David A. + Truesdell and Tom Wilmore + have sample scripts to do these. + +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:00:00 -0800 + + 1c) mysend, a sendproc script, processes a message after + "What now? send". See "What references exist for MH" to see + where the MH book scripts can be ftped from. The script is + explained in MH book Section 7.1.4 (13.13), or the URL: + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/senove.htm#ASAtDm + + 2) Using your editor. If you use vi, you can use something like: + + map S :r ~/.signature + + to load your signature out of .signature every time you + hit 'S'. + + 3) Use your windowing system. xterm, for example, can provide key + and button mappings for the utterly lazy. + + 4) If you use Emacs with MH-E: + + 4a) C-c C-s will append the signature. + +From: Andre Srinivasan +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + 4b) Add the following to your .emacs file: + + (add-hook 'mh-compose-letter-function + (function + (lambda(a b c) + (save-excursion + (goto-char (point-max)) + (beginning-of-line) + (mh-insert-signature))))) + + This hook is called after the draft buffer has been initialized, + but before you have a chance to type anything. + +From: Tom Christiansen +Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + Tired of the same old signature? Want different signatures for + different newsgroups? Here's a program to help you out. + + The way it works is to have .signature be a named pipe, so if you + don't have named pipes, just say 'n'. + + The sigrand program then feeds stuff down the pipe every time someone + wants to read it. That way it works for more than just news, but + for anything that wants to read your .signature, like a mailer. + + You have your choice of three kinds of signatures: + + 1) random (short) fortune from "fortune -s"; you get these if + you don't have a global sig file. + 2) random fortune from ~/News/SIGNATURES [global sig file] + 3) random fortune form ~/News/(newsgroup)/SIGNATURES [local sig files] + + Send mail if interested. + +Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + See also the Signature FAQ (see "What references exist for MH?"). + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.05 How do I call my editor with arguments? +From: John Romine +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + Set your editor (in .mh_profile) to the following shellscript. + + #/bin/sh + "$@" + exit 0 + +From: Ray Nickson +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + You might find it useful to make $EDITOR, or to use + different arguments depending on your EDITOR environment variable. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.06 How can I digestify messages in a folder for mail to another user? +From: Jerry Peek , Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + How about: + + forw [-digest tmp] [-form forwcomps] [-filter mhl.digest] + messages +folder + + These messages can be un-digestified :-) by the MH burst(1) program. + + See also MH book sections 7.9.7 (6.8.7), 8.10 (7.9), or the URLs: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/forfor-2.htm#CreDig + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/burdig.htm + +From: Glenn Vanderburg +Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + There's another way, which is better if the recipient understands MIME. + + forw -mime messages +folder + + (Make sure that you either have "automhnproc: mhn" in your mh + profile, or type "edit mhn" to whatnow before you send it.) + + This bundles each message in a MIME message/rfc822 part, and then + bundles the whole mess up in a multipart/digest part. You can still + add your own text at the beginning. The MH burst program can also + understand these messages and split them apart with no problem. + This works beautifully with MIME-capable mail readers, especially + exmh. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.07 How can I change my return address? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800 + + If you find that your mailer creates a From header that others have + trouble replying to, you can add a Reply-To header to override the + From header in replies. + + Copy the components and replcomps files which are normally found in + $MHLIB into your Mail directory and add a line like the following + after the Subject header replacing my address with your address: + + Reply-To: jack@newt.com + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.08 How can I change my From header? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:40:50 -0800 + + With either of the following solutions, you'll need to add an + Alternate-Mailboxes entry in your MH profile so that scan prints + "To: recipient" rather than your faked address. For example, if + your real address is user@somedomain.com and you've added a From + field of: + + From: Joe Bob + + you'll add the following to .mh_profile: + + Alternate-Mailboxes: joe.bob@somedomain.com + +From: Bill Wisner +Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800 + + If you're just interested in changing the hostname, add a line to + $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor): + + localname: desired_host_name + +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800 + + Just put a "From:" header in your "components", "replcomps" and + "forwcomps" files. MH will add a "Sender:" header with what it thinks + is your real address. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.09 How can I save a copy of all messages I send? +From: Ping Huang +Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:51:33 -0800 + + I suggest the use of the Dcc: field (See "What is the Dcc header?"), + since the use of "Dcc:" solves the issue of having the same + Message-Id. The warning about using Dcc: in general contexts + doesn't apply to self-blind-carbon copies, and if "Dcc:" is used and + you are automatically sorting messages into folders based on mailing + lists, messages which you send will get refiled in the same way. + Some may prefer all outgoing messages to be segregated; others + (including myself) prefer not to segregate outgoing messages. + +From: Bill Wohler , Jerry Peek +Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + Copy the components and replcomps files which are normally found in + $MHLIB into your Mail directory and add a line like the following + after the cc header: + + Fcc: +out + + All outgoing messages will then be saved in the +out folder. If you + make a distcomps file, it needs "Resent-Fcc:". + +From: Jeppe Sigbrandt +Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 02:04:53 +0100 + + You can also use @ in the Fcc field to file the outgoing message in + the current folder. + + Fcc: @ + + This is useful if you filter your mail (e.g., with procmail) and you + read your mail in folders other than +inbox. + +From: David S. Goldberg +Date: 30 Oct 1995 10:23:55 -0500 + + You can get the Message-ID field by placing the folder in the "Fcc" + field and adding: + + send: -msgid + + to your .mh_profile. Unfortunately, this Message-ID isn't as useful + as sendmail's--it doesn't include the date. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified? +From: Andy Rabagliati +Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + My suggestion would be to run Tom Christiansen's rfi script. If you + cannot find it on *.sources archive sites (please try first), I can + mail it to you. + + One good idea would be to write a whatnowproc that files the mail + based on a procmail or deliver file. Then you can use the same file + for incoming and outgoing mail. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.11 Can I post secure/encryped mail? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:06:39 -0700 + + MH-E 7.0 supports GPG out of the box. + +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 05:30:43 -0800 + + PGP keys can be obtained via mail from , + and via the Web at http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pks-commands.html. + Many PGP front-ends (e.g., mailcrypt) automatically obtain keys for + you. + + See http://www.pgp.net/ for more info. + +From: Vivek Khera +Date: 19 Jun 1995 22:06:37 GMT + + A much more robust Perl script I wrote is appended below [Ed: Send a + note to Vivek for the script]. It works its way through aliases, + and avoids problems with full names in the headers. + + Here is my mhn profile entry to display the messages. + + mhshow-show-application/x-pgp: %l pgp -m '%F' # nmh + mhn-show-application/x-pgp: %l pgp -m '%F' # MH + + to use the script, after you edit the message, at the What now? + prompt, type "edit pgpmail" for plain ascii encryption or "pgpmail + -m" for a MIME formatted encryption. If you want to add a digital + signature, give the script the -s flag also. + +From: Jeffrey C. Ollie +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + TIS has a free, draft-standard compliant public key system that + works with MH (PEM). Check it out on ftp.tis.com. + +From: Kimmo Suominen +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + You could try looking at the URL http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/ and + following the link from the cover page. Everything you need for + PGP to work with MH is there (scripts and mhn entries). + +From: mathew at mantis.co.uk +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + Excellent stuff. I've tried altering it to conform to + draft-borenstein-pgp-mime-00.txt. + + Unfortunately, I can't get mhn to tag PGP-armoured text as + application/pgp; format=text without it insisting on base64 encoding + it. So I can't quite manage to implement the standard. *sigh* + + Presumably mhn thinks that anything which isn't text/* must be + encoded. + +From: John R MacMillan +Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:06:59 -0700 + + Premail, in conjunction with MH, can display and compose security + multiparts (e.g., multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted PGP mail, + non-MIME PGP, and some S/MIME). Check out + + http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail/ + + for details. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.12 How can I send multi-media (MIME) attachments? +From: Brian Exelbierd +Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 08:05:55 -0400 + + The short guide: + + 1. Compose a letter using comp. + + 2. When you get to a point where you want to include a MIME attachment, type + the following to include a GIF image (note: the '#' must be in + the first column): + + #image/gif [Pictures at an Exhibition] /usr/lib/pictures/exhibition.gif + + 3. Finish your letter, adding more text or attachments as needed. + + 4. Save your letter and exit the editor. At the Whatnow prompt + type "edit mhn". mhn will automatically format your letter with + the MIME attachments leaving the original letter in ,##,orig + where ## is the letter number. + + 5. Type "send" at the Whatnow prompt, and poof, you have just sent + MIME mail. I strongly recommend you practice sending yourself + MIME mail first. + + For more information, see the mhn(1) man page, + ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types + for a list of allowed media types in addition to image/gif, and + Chapter 3 in the MH book or the URL: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/overall/tocs/intmime.htm + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.13 What's the best way to send mail to a long list of people? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 07:53:53 -0700 + + There are three ways to keep the list of members from appearing in + everyone's header. + + If you're planning on mailing to these people regularly, the best + way is to create an alias in /etc/aliases (/usr/lib/aliases). That + way, recipients can send and reply to the list as well. + + The other two ways allow you to manage the list privately, but the + recipients cannot send to the list (unless you set something up with + your deliver or procmail script). One is with a group list. It + looks like this: + + To: All-members: member1, member2, member3, ..., membern; + + The recipients see this: + + To: All-members:; + + You can make this an MH alias as well. + + The second way is to use a blind carbon copy (see "How do I send + blind carbon copies?"). + + Or you could also use the undocumented Dcc field which is used like + the Bcc field, but doesn't inject the "Blind-Carbon-Copy." Warning: + (See "What is the Dcc header?") + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.14 What is the Dcc header? +From: jpeek at jpeek.com (Jerry Peek) +Date: 14 Sep 96 05:51:13 GMT + + If you put the alias in the Dcc field and leave the To: field empty, + there's a good chance that the recipients will get a message with + the header field: + + Apparently-to: + + and it might even list several addresses. To avoid that, use a To: + field with some address (like yours) in it. I use a comment that + tells people what's really happening--like this, more or less: + + To: "Faculty members, c/o" + dcc: faculty + + There are some other choices, like using an un-replyable group list + in the To: field, but I think they tend to confuse non-techies. + +Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 09:46:37 -0700 +From: John Romine + + The Dcc (Distribution Carbon Copy) field behaves much like the Bcc + field, but does not add the "Blind-Carbon-Copy" notice. This header + is removed before posting the message,and a copy of the message is + distributed to each listed address. This could be considered a form + of Blind Carbon Copy which is best used for sending to an address + which would never reply (such as an auto-archiver). + + People should not be using Dcc as a substitute-Bcc to send to other + people. When users use Dcc as a substitute for Bcc, there is *no* + indication to the "blind" recipients that they have received a blind + copy. If those recipients should reply (and they have no indication + why they shouldn't), the original author could be very embarassed + (or worse). + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.15 How can I make sense of the replcomps file? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:25:14 -0800 + + The best thing to do is curl up with the mh-format(5) man page, or + Section 11.2 of the MH book, or the URL: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/mhstr.htm + + These will explain the following replcomps file. Don't start with the + first four lines--the latter group of lines are much easier to understand. + + %(lit)%(formataddr %<{reply-to}%?{from}%?{sender}%?{return-path}%>)\ + %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr To: )\n%>\ + %(lit)%(formataddr{to})%(formataddr{cc})%(formataddr(me))\ + %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )\n%>\ + Organization: Newt Software + %<{fcc}Fcc: %{fcc}\n%>\ + %<{subject}Subject: Re: %{subject}\n%>\ + %<{date}In-reply-to: Your message of "\ + %<(nodate{date})%{date}%|%(pretty{date})%>."%<{message-id} + %{message-id}%>\n%>\ + -------- + + In particular, note the following: + + \ consider the following line to be part of the current line + \n inject an actual newline into the reply. Note that inserting + a field without a trailing backslash (\) will cause + that field to be emitted in the reply as well. + %<{field}, %?{field}, %|, %> if field exists, else if field exists, + else, endif + %(command) mh-format commands + %{field} value of the header field inserted at this point + + To add new fields, you can either add fields based on whether + certain fields exist in the original message (e.g., + %<{message-id}...), or hard-code them, as in the Organization field + above. Note that you can either use a "\n\" pair, or nothing at the + end of a line to insert a newline in the reply. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.16 How can I convert quoted-printable to 8bit in quoted text in replies? +From: Jarle F. Greipsland +Date: 22 Aug 1995 10:42:07 +0200 + + The idea behind the solution is that I need mhn to store the + contents of the mail in the native iso8859-1 format somewhere. I + did this by creating a custom editor that is invoked when I reply to + a message. This editor extracts the body of the message (sorry, no + multipart stuff), indents it with '> ', appends it to the draft + message and invokes the ordinary editor on it. Here are the details: + + `isorepl' is a symbolic link from my $HOME/bin-directory to `repl'. + + In my .mh_profile I added the following two lines: + + isorepl: -form isoreplcomps -editor isoextract + isoextract-next: vi + + The isoreplcomps file in my Mail-directory contains: + + %(lit)%(formataddr %<{reply-to}%?{from}%?{sender}%?{return-path}%>)\ + %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr To: )\n%>\ + %(lit)%(formataddr{to})%(formataddr{cc})%(formataddr(me))\ + %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )\n%>\ + %<{fcc}Fcc: %{fcc}\n%>\ + %<{subject}Subject: Re: %{subject}\n%>\ + %<{date}In-reply-to: Your message of "\ + %<(nodate{date})%{date}%|%(pretty{date})%>."%<{message-id} + %{message-id}%>\n%>\ + -------- + #\ + %<{from}%(friendly{from}) writes%|You write%>: + + This is a "Usenet-like" quoting style. Modify to suit your own + taste. This form will setup the proper header, as well as the first + line of the new message (In nnnn writes etc.). + + The first editor, `isoextract', looks like this: + + #!/bin/sh + # + # Called from within repl where the "editalt" variable is valid + # + # Point to a special MHN configuration file (save old one) + OLDMHN="$MHN" + MHN=$HOME/`mhparam Path`/isoquotemsg + export MHN + + # Extract message body to "native" format (should be iso-8859-1) + # > More bla bla. + mhn -file "$editalt" -store >> $1 2>/dev/null + + MHN="$OLDMHN" + myname=`basename $0` + next=`mhparam ${myname}-next` + if [ "x$next" != "x" ]; then + exec $next "$@" + fi + + `isoquotemsg' has just one rule; how mhn should store a text message. + + mhn-store-text: |sed -e 's/^[ ]*$//' \ + -e 's/^\([>|]\)\(.*\)$/>\1\2/' \ + -e 's/^\([^>|].*\)$/> \1/' + + This tells mhn to pipe the message to stdout, where the sed commands will + do the reformatting/quoting. (Note: the first pair of square brackets + contains a space and a tab.) + + So, when I do a `isorepl' to a message, `repl' will create the draft + message with the proper headers (based on the `isoreplcomps' format file), + fire off its first editor, `isoextract', with the name of the draft file as + its parameter. `isoextract' then invokes mhn in a suitable environment, + tells it that it is to use the file $editalt as its source, and orders it + to store the contents. The store-text rule in the custom MHN-file tells it + to just pipe the message (in native iso8859-1 form) through a small set of + sed commands, and `isoextract' uses the normal shell construct to append + the result to the draft file. Then, if there's defined a `isoextract-next' + entry in the .mh_profile, isoextract exec's this editor. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.17 Can I have aliases include aliases? +From: Bruce Cox +Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:26:12 +1000 + + Indeed, you can. + + You just need to remember the way MH expands aliases. In + particular, the right hand sides are only expanded by the aliases + below them in your aliases file. So, if you put in: + + dead-men: presidents, authors + presidents: washington, lincoln, jefferson, roosevelt + authors: thoreau, irving, london + + and type: + + ali dead-men + + then you would get the response: + + washington, lincoln, jefferson, roosevelt, thoreau, irving, london + + If you had the dead-men line after the presidents and authors aliases, the + response would be: + + presidents, authors + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.18 Why doesn't mhmail understand aliases? +From: "John L. Romine" +Date: 25 Apr 1996 16:34:10 GMT + + One way that mhmail might be run is from a shell script. This means + that the user running it might not use MH, and would not have a + .mh_profile, etc. If you want to use aliases with mhmail, expand + them before passing them as arguments (e.g., "mhmail `ali joe`"). + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.19 How do I send blind carbon copies? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 00:32:14 -0700 + + Use the Bcc header field: + + To: your-address-here + Bcc: member1, member2, member3, ..., membern + + The recipients see this: + + To: your-address-here + + ------- Blind-Carbon-Copy + + Content of message, with headers + + If you don't want the "Blind-Carbon-Copy" message, use the Dcc + field, but this is discouraged in true blind carbon copies since the + warning may prevent the recipient from embarrassing someone + inadvertently. Read the warning in (see "What is the Dcc header?"). + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.20 When I forward a message, can I use its Subject? +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 20:16:31 -0800 + + Obtain forwedit. + + ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/jpeek/forwedit + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.21 Why is the timezone field in my 'Date:' field wrong? +From: Alex Tomlinson +Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:16:41 -0500 + + If the date field in your mail header looks like this: + + Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:59:03 +2228904 + + remove -lbsd from your MH configuration, add "curses -lcurses", and + rebuild. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.22 Can I automate the comp -editor mhn process? +From: Soren Dayton +Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:23:32 GMT + + Add + + automhnproc: mhn + + to your MH profile. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.23 How can I remove those "=20" characters when forwarding? +From: Dave Marquardt +Date: 12 Oct 2000 10:27:38 -0500 + + Use `forw -mime'. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.24 Can I use mh-format substitution with forw? +From: Dave Marquardt +Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:28:30 -0500 (EST) + + The answer is no, and the real question is why not? + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 05.25 How can I keep repl from breaking long lines? +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:15:07 -0400 + + Try adding width=10000 (or so) to your replcomps. It should work + unless you have messages with lines longer than that... + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 06.00 ***** Posting ***** +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 06.01 What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed". +From: John Romine +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + If your users are using an AT&T version of "vi", it's exiting with + non-zero status (supposedly a count of the "errors" during the edit). + Move "vi" to "broken_vi" and put it its place : + + #! /bin/sh + /usr/ucb/broken_vi "$@" + exit 0 + + Alternatively, compile MH with the ATTVIBUG option. + + Then complain to your vendor that "vi" is broken, and they should + fix it. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 06.02 Can I run my message through a program (e.g., ispell) before sending? +From: Jerry Peek +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + It's pretty simple. If your speller is called myspell, use: + + What now? edit myspell + + MH will actually execute: + + myspell /your-mail-draft-directory/draftfile + + and give the entire draft message to your speller. The header will + probably be "misspelled," of course, though you might be able to + tell the speller to ignore it--or you could hack up a little shell + script to run the speller on just the message body, then tack the + corrected body back onto the header before sending. + + You can automate this some more. For example, if you want your + speller to run after your first edit with "prompter" and also after + you leave the "vi" editor, add these lines to your MH profile: + + prompter-next: myspell + vi-next: myspell + + Then, at the "What now?" prompt: + + What now? e + + your speller will run. For more info, see the mh-profile(5) man + page or section 7.2.1 (6.2.1) of the MH book, or the URL: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/chaedi.htm#Edi + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 06.03 What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part". +From: Owen Rees +Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + You may find that post returns the following message: + + post: bad address 'Mr. Foo Bar ' - no at-sign + after local-part (Bar), continuing... + + The unquoted dot causes "Mr. Foo" to be parsed as the local part of + the address. Either remove the dot, or rewrite the address as + follows: + + "Mr. Foo Bar" + (Mr. Foo Bar) + (Mr. Foo Bar) fb@somewhere.edu + +------------------------------ + +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 + + The error message itself is essentially correct. However, what this + really means is: MH's post cannot connect to a running sendmail over + an SMTP port (MH configured with SMTP and SENDMTS). + + The potential problems: + + 1. Your local sendmail daemon is dying or not running for some + reason. + + 2. You use BIND and your local nameserver is not responding. + Solution: Delete "/etc/resolv.conf." + + 3. Your $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) has its "servers:" pointing to a + non-existent machine or a machine which is a) not reachable or b) + not running the sendmail daemon. + +From: Bdale Garbee , + Eric Bracken +Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + 4. The hostname localhost [127.0.0.1] is missing from /etc/hosts. + + Solution: add an entry for "localhost" to /etc/hosts or your DNS + database or add the following to $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor): + + servers: 127.0.0.1 \01localnet + +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 + 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 + + postproc: /usr/local/lib/mh/spost + + in your MH profile (but check the path first). That should use + command line sendmail. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 06.05 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender already specified" +From: Paul Pomes +Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + The problem in sendmail is that the RSET after the ONEX does not + reset all the state information. Normally sendmail fork()s after + the Mail from: statement and a RSET causes that child to exit. This + automatically cleans up. If the fork() is suppressed by ONEX, then + the source must be modified to do the cleanup. See "srvrsmtp.c + patch" in the Appendix. If you don't have the sources, modify your + MH sources to not use the ONEX verb. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 06.06 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [BHST] no socket opened" +From: Steve Lembark , Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + This problem happens when there is no interface defined within the + tcp system. A couple of workarounds include: + + o Use a hostname (other than the local host) instead of localhost in + the "servers" entry of the $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file. + o Recompile MH with sendmail instead of sendmail/smtp (not very elegant). + + A better fix would be to define your tcp interface. + + Here, you run ifconfig and route (as root) to define the loopback + device and route. You should add them to rc.local so they are + effected at every boot. + + # ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 # Linux + # ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 # Sun + + # route 127.0.0.1 + + If all is well, "ifconfig lo" (or lo0), will show something like this + (on my Linux system): + + lo Link encap Local Loopback + inet addr 127.0.0.1 Bcast 127.255.255.255 Mask 255.0.0.0 + UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU 2000 Metric 0 + RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overrun 0 + TX packets 519 errors 0 dropped 0 overrun 0 + + and "netstat -r" will show: + + # netstat -r + Destination net/address Gateway address Flags RefCnt Use Iface + 127.0.0.0 * UN 0 519 lo + + If you're not on a network and running DNS, your /etc/hosts will + need at least: + + 127.0.0.1 your_host_name localhost # loopback address + + Note: put your name FIRST on the localhost line. This official name + is used by sendmail to determine your return address. + + If you are on a network and running DNS, you might find that putting + your host name in the localhost entry might gum up other things, in + which case you'll want your hostname to have its own proper address. + + This might not do it though. David Youatt says that + his network was happy but he still had the problem until he upgraded + his system and got the latest revision of sendmail as well. He + says: "Turns out that that the problem I was having seems to be + caused (at least partly, maybe entirely) by the version of sendmail + that is shipped with IRIX 5.2 (sendmail 5.65, I think). The version + shipped w/IRIX 5.3 (in beta) is sendmail 8.6.9 and works fine." + + I'm not entirely happy with this section, so please give me some + feedback. If you have this problem, please send me + a brief description so I'll know which problems + and solutions seem to be the most prevalent. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 06.07 How do I fix the "X-Authentication-Warning" header? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:32:15 -0700 + + (See "Fixing "Sender didn't use the HELO protocol"".) + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 06.08 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [RPLY] 503 Need MAIL before RCPT" +From: Bjoern Stabell +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + I inserted: + + clientname: localhost + + in the $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file, and that fixed the problem. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 06.09 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket" +From: Ginko +Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:18:14 +0000 (UTC) + + I have sendmail under control of tcpwrapper started by inetd + and 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 + + If you are running sendmail instead of smail, make sure that all + smtp entries in /etc/inetd.conf are commented out. If you do edit + /etc/inetd.conf, don't forget to run to restart inetd with "kill -1 + ". + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 06.10 Fixing "Sender didn't use the HELO protocol" +From: rickert at cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) +Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:01:16 -0800 + + If you are sharing your $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file among + several machines, and you are connecting to the local sendmail, then + use 'localhost' as the hostname argument to the clientname parameter + (described below). + + Otherwise, place mts.conf somewhere under /etc on each system, and + install a symlink to it on the shared file system. + +From: labrown at dg-rtp.dg.com (Lance A. Brown) +Date: 23 Apr 1996 14:43:04 -0400 + + You can solve this by putting + + localname: localhostname + localdomain: local.domain.name + + in your $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file. This will make MH send a + HELO string in the SMTP transaction. + +From: Terry Manderson +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + Add + + clientname sender + + to $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) where sender is the name of the + machine sending the message. The error message occurs because newer + MTA's require SMTP's "HELO" command which MH omits in some + configurations. When you add the above line, it forces MH to use the + HELO command. + +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + You get a header like: + + X-Authentication-Warning: screamer.rtp.ericsson.se: Host + rcur7.rtp.ericsson.se didn't use HELO protocol + + Easy possibilities are: apply the patch to MH that comes with Sendmail + 8.X.X and makes it use HELO, or comment out the line that says + + Opauthwarnings + + in your sendmail.cf. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 06.11 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local +From: "Matthew V. J. Whalen" +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + Change your "mts" in "conf/MH" from "sendmail/smtp" to just + "sendmail." + +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + The solution above will keep MH from using any SMTP server on your + network. require sendmail to be installed on all machines. You could + take advantage of the "sendmail/smtp" option to have MH talk to a + non-local sendmail. In $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) add: + + servers + + It may also be caused by old versions of sendmail. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 07.00 ***** Mail Filters ***** +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 07.01 What mail filters are available? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:27:24 -0800 + + The list currently includes slocal (included with MH), deliver, + procmail and mailagent. They are briefly described here. Slocal is + probably the most popular by virtue of being included in the + distribution. The next most popular entry is procmail, followed by + deliver. + + Slocal comes with MH. It can be used to process incoming mail based + on the contents of any of the headers. Actions include filing + messages, running commands, printing messages on your terminal and + so on. The configuration is made in ~/.maildelivery. People seem to + have trouble with slocal bugs, and you can't use it if you don't + have write permission on your system maildrop so a lot of people + have opted for the alternatives, but it's easy to use and comes with + MH. + + procmail is quite popular and has a very powerful configuration + file. However, the syntax is its own, but it is easy to learn given + a couple of good examples. Its advantages are its small size and + speed. Like deliver, procmail may be installed as a delivery agent + so you would not even have to have a .forward file. + + Deliver can run any script or program (called ~/.deliver), so you + really can do anything you want to incoming mail. One feature that + it sports that no other does is that you can install it as a local + mailer in place of /bin/mail. If it's the local mailer, you don't + need to have a .forward--~/.deliver is run anyway. In addition, it + allows the system administrator to write some programs to filter + everybody's mail. It came with my Linux system, so installation was + non-existent. + + I started with slocal, and then moved to deliver. I switched to + procmail because of a bug in deliver (which I think has since been + fixed) whereby a blank line would be inserted into the header before + header fields with numbers in them. + + I am still using procmail and probably will do so indefinitely since + it is powerful, there are many spam filters written in it, and it + coexists with MH and gnus so well. + + My recommendation is to use the one that is installed on your system + or get procmail. Here are the URLs for the filters mentioned in this + document: + + http://www.procmail.org/ + +From: "Eric D. Friedman" +Date: 28 Aug 1996 08:28:46 GMT + + See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/filtering-faq/index.html. + +From: Stephen R. van den Berg +Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800 + + Procmail can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort + your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when + subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritizing your + mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival + (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different + types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail + automatically to someone. + +From: Raphael Manfredi +Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:22:07 +0200 + + "mailagent" is yet another mail filter, written in perl, which will + let you do anything with your mail. It has all the features you may + expect from a filter: mailing lists sorting, forwarding to MTA or to + inews, pre-processing of message before saving into folder, vacation + mode, etc. It was initially written as an Elm-filter replacement, + but has now enough power to also supplant MMDF's + .maildelivery. There is also a support for @SH mail hooks, which + allows you to automatically distribute patches or software via + command mails. + + The mailagent was designed to make mail filtering as easy as it can + be. It is highly configurable and fairly complete. Rules are + specified in a lex-like style, with the full power of perl's regular + expressions. The automaton supports the notion of mode, and header + selection has many magic features built-in, to ease the rule writing + process. + + The distribution comes with a set of examples, an exhaustive test + suite, and naturally a detailed manual page. It should be noted that + the mailagent will work even if your system administrator forbids "| + programs" hooks in the ~/.forward, provided you have access to some + sort of cron daemon. + + http://www.cpan.org/authors/Raphael_Manfredi/ + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 07.02 Why slocal writes messages to system mailbox that from(1) can't read. +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800 + + Upgrade to MH 6.8 and set the RPATHS option. Better yet, use a more + MH-like command instead of from: "scan -file $MAIL". + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 07.03 Where can I read about slocal and the format of .maildelivery? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + See the slocal man page. + + Here is brief example of a .maildelivery file that stores messages + to babble in a folder and the system mailbox, stores mh-users in a + folder but not the system mailbox, and puts the rest in the system + mailbox. + + to mh-users | A "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/mh-users" + cc mh-users | A "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/mh-users" + to babble | R "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/babble" + cc babble | R "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/babble" + default - > ? /usr/spool/mail/wohler + + Your .forward file may look like (quotes necessary): + + "| $MHLIB/slocal -user your_login" + + In some implementations, the "-user your_login" is not needed. If + not, manually running slocal with the flag will produce an error. + + See also chapter 12 (11) in the MH book, or the URL: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/tocs/prmaau.htm + + Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent. + (See "What mail filters are available?") + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 07.04 How do I debug my .maildelivery file? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + Use as many of the following as necessary. + + Put a message into a file and call slocal directly on it. + + $MHLIB/slocal -user $USER -verbose -debug < test-msg + + Modify your .forward to look like: + + "|/bin/sh -c 'exec >> /tmp/out 2>&1; + $MHLIB/slocal -user $USER -verbose -debug'" + + Or modify a rule in .maildelivery to look like this: + + to foo | R "set -xv; exec >/tmp/out 2>&1; $MHLIB/rcvstore +foo" + + The previous examples are broken up for readability; the text must + appear on one line. + + See also MH book section 12.11 (11.11), or the URL: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/debugti.htm + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 07.05 Why isn't slocal working? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800 + + If slocal doesn't appear to be doing anything, run the following + + $MHLIB/slocal -user your_login -verbose < file + + where "file" is some message in a mail folder. If you get something + like: + + .maildelivery: ownership/modes bad (0, 154,154,0100666) + + your .maildelivery is writable by too many people. Make it writable + only by you by running "chmod 644 .maildelivery". + + See also "How do I debug my .maildelivery file?" + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 07.06 Are there any good biff applications for MH? +From: Rob Austein +Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 03:02:34 -0500 + + I've been been using a program called xlbiff (X Literate Biff) and + have been quite happy with it. By default, xlbiff generates its + pop-up listings by running scan on your mail drop file, but it's not + a big deal to customize xlbiff for more complicated setups if you + make heavy use of procmail, multiple mail drops, and so on. + +From: Richard Coleman +Date: 07 Jul 1997 03:31:42 -0400 + + nmh (new MH) has an additional command (flist) that will tell you + which folders have unseen messages. I can't imagine using MH + without it. + +From: crow at tivoli.com (David L. Crow) +Date: 7 Jul 97 09:36:32 GMT + + I have used the following X resource with xbiff before: + + xbiff*checkCommand: grep -q '^unread' `mhpath +inbox`/.mh_sequences \ + && exit 0 || exit 2 + + This should be all one line, but I split it with a line continuation + character for readability. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 07.07 How do I read new messages filed by procmail? +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:17:14 -0700 + + If you use MH-E, use "F n (mh-index-new-messages)" to display unseen + messages. + +From: Neil W Rickert +Date: 23 Apr 2002 20:38:57 GMT + + Here is my "unseen" shell script: + + #! /bin/sh - + + case "$1" in + "") grep unseen $HOME/Mail/context $HOME/Mail/*/.mh_sequences | + sed -e '/\/fromme\//d' \ + -e "s=$HOME/Mail/==" \ + -e 's=/.mh_sequences:unseen==' + ;; + "+") shift + mark -sequence unseen -add "$@" + ;; + "-") shift + mark -sequence unseen -delete "$@" + ;; + *) echo "Invalid arguments $*" + ;; + esac + +From: Paul Fox +Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:13:42 GMT + + I have procmail deliver to a set of mbox files and use "inc -f foo" + to inc from them. The names of the mbox files are the same as the MH + folders which makes it easy to write a script that does something + like this: + + cd Mailboxes + for x in *; do + inc -f $x +$x + done + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 08.00 ***** MH-E ***** +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 08.01 I have a question about MH-E +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 13:51:29 -0800 + + Let me send you over to: + + http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/ + + This is the SourceForge MH-E project. It has mailing lists and files + to download, and will let you submit patches or support requests. + + The Support Requests section may already contain an answer to your + question. If not, you can post your question: + + http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13357&atid=213357 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 09.00 ***** Xmh ***** +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 09.01 How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor? +From: Bob Ellison +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + The modifications to xmh to support an external editor, annotations, + and an append command can be found in the these places. + + ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/xmh-mods-R5-1.7.Z 37k + ftp://ftp.sei.cmu.edu/pub/xmh/xmh-mods-R5-1.7.Z 37k + ftp://ftp.sei.cmu.edu/pub/xmh/xmh-mods-R6-1.0.Z 37k + +From: Andrew Wason +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + As of R5, xmh has a new action proc called XmhShellCommand. A + string parameter will be executed as a shell command with the + currently selected messages as parameters (or the current message if + there are no selected messages). + + Using this new action, a couple of shell scripts, a window version + of emacs (e.g. xemacs) and some elisp code, xmh can use emacs as its + editor instead of the built in Athena text widget editor. This + doesn't require any source code changes to xmh. These are included + in the Appendix "Switching xmh's editor". + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 09.02 Does xmh support subfolders? +From: Steve Malowany +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + Yes. Create one by invoking "Create Folder" as usual, and enter + something like: existing-folder/new-sub-folder. You can then access + the subfolder by popping up a menu over the "existing-folder" button + item. + + But: + +From: John Cooper +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + The R5 version of xmh does *not* handle nested sub-folders. If you + create a folder as 'grab/some/bandwidth', xmh displays this + folder name for the remainder of the session where it was created, + BUT if you later re-run xmh, the folder is no longer visible to xmh. + + See also MH book section 15.6.2 (15.6.2), or the URL: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/xmh/orgfol.htm#FolaSub + +------------------------------ + +Subject: 09.03 How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh? +From: Len Makin +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + Include the following line in your ~/app-defaults/XMh file: + + Xmh*replyInsertFilter: "sed 's/^/> /'" + + or, + + Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter: $MHLIB/mhl -form repl.filter + +From: Andy Linton +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + + Using this means that you can chose to insert the original by use of + the "Insert" button in the Draft message pane. See "How do I + include messages in repl with or without ">"?" to find examples of + repl.filter. + + See also MH book sections 15.1.4 (15.1.4), 16.3.3 (16.3.3), or the URLs: + + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/xmh/senmai.htm#MorRep + http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/xmh/resfun.htm#Rep + +------------------------------ + +Subject: Glossary +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:04:34 -0700 + + MH Mail Handler + MHLIB Where MH support routines and files are kept; usually /usr/lib/mh + or /usr/local/lib/mh. + POP3 Post Office Protocol, RFC 1939 + MMDF Multi-channel Memo Distribution Facility + MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, RFC 1521 + IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol, RFC 1064, 1176 + TIS Trusted Information Systems + PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail + PGP Pretty Good Privacy + SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol (STD 10; RFC 821) + +------------------------------ + +Subject: Acknowledgments +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:37:27 -0700 + +I'd like to thank the following people for providing ideas on the +layout of this article: + +Joe Wells Richard M. Stallman +David Elliott Tom Christiansen +Eugene N. Miya + +We are also grateful to Kim F. Storm and Edward +Vielmetti and the folks mentioned in the text of this +document who have provided answers or other information to make this a +better document. I regret that it is possible that some names have +been accidently omitted. I would also like to thank all the readers +of comp.mail.mh. + +I'd also like to thank John Romine for +maintaining MH and the MH Web page, Jerry Peek for +writing the MH bible and for all his hard work with the entire MH +project, Stephen Gildea for maintaining MH-E +in years past and always sending me lots of great comments, Kimmo +Suominen for maintaining the MH patch page, and +Richard Coleman for taking MH to nmh. + +------------------------------ + +Subject: Switching xmh's editor +From: Andrew Wason +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +#! /bin/sh +# This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line, then unpack +# it by saving it into a file and typing "sh file". To overwrite existing +# files, type "sh file -c". You can also feed this as standard input via +# unshar, or by typing "sh 'README' <<'END_OF_FILE' +XThis is a short description of what to do with each of the enclosed files. +X +XXmh.ad +X Merge this in with your xmh resources. If you already have +X user defined buttons, then you may need to renumber the +X buttons in this resource file. +X +Xxmh-command.el +X Byte compile this file and put it in your GNU emacs load-path. +X +Xxmhcommand +Xxmhemacs +X Put these somewhere in your path. +X +X +XOnce you have installed these, restart the R5 xmh with the new +Xresources. When you press the repl, forw or comp buttons +Xan xemacs window will come up with your draft message. +X +XOnce you have written your mail, save it and exit GNU emacs (C-xC-c). +XYou will be prompted if you want to send the current message. +XIf you enter 'y', the message will be sent and the output will +Xbe displayed in an emacs window (in case you use -verbose or -snoop). +XThen you will be prompted to exit emacs. Enter 'y' when you are ready. +X +XIf you answered 'n' when prompted to send the message, +Xthen the draft message will be deleted and emacs will exit. +X +XYou can modify the Xmh.ad resources to add more buttons. +XAny MH command which accepts "+folder msg" can be used +X(e.g. a replx shell script which includes the body of the +Xmessage being replied to can be bound to a replx button) +X +X +XAndrew Wason +Xaw at bae.bellcore.com +END_OF_FILE +if test 1269 -ne `wc -c <'README'`; then + echo shar: \"'README'\" unpacked with wrong size! +fi +# end of 'README' +fi +if test -f 'Xmh.ad' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then + echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'Xmh.ad'\" +else +echo shar: Extracting \"'Xmh.ad'\" \(457 characters\) +sed "s/^X//" >'Xmh.ad' <<'END_OF_FILE' +XXmh*CommandButtonCount: 3 +X +XXmh*commandBox.button1.label: repl +XXmh*commandBox.button1.translations:\ +X #override\n\ +X : XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y repl) unset() +X +XXmh*commandBox.button2.label: forw +XXmh*commandBox.button2.translations:\ +X #override\n\ +X : XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y forw) unset() +X +XXmh*commandBox.button3.label: comp +XXmh*commandBox.button3.translations:\ +X #override\n\ +X : XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand n comp) unset() +END_OF_FILE +if test 457 -ne `wc -c <'Xmh.ad'`; then + echo shar: \"'Xmh.ad'\" unpacked with wrong size! +fi +# end of 'Xmh.ad' +fi +if test -f 'xmh-command.el' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then + echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmh-command.el'\" +else +echo shar: Extracting \"'xmh-command.el'\" \(1294 characters\) +sed "s/^X//" >'xmh-command.el' <<'END_OF_FILE' +X;;; These functions are for use with xemacs and xmh. +X;;; The R5 xmh has a new action - XmhShellCommand which executes +X;;; a shell command with the current msg as an arg. +X;;; By executing something like: +X;;; XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand repl) +X;;; you can use xemacs as your editor with xmh. +X;;; +X;;; The following elisp functions perform the basic whatnowproc functionality +X;;; (quitting and deleting, sending) +X;;; +X;;; Andrew Wason aw at bae.bellcore.com +X +X +X;;; Override C-xC-c +X(define-key indented-text-mode-map "\C-x\C-c" 'xmh-command-send-or-delete) +X +X +X(setq mhdraft (getenv "mhdraft")) ; save the filename of the draft +X +X +X(find-file mhdraft) ; load the draft letter +X(indented-text-mode) +X(setq draft-buffer (current-buffer)) ; save the buffer the draft is in +X +X +X(defun xmh-command-send-or-delete () +X "Prompt to send or delete letter, then quit." +X (interactive) +X (set-buffer draft-buffer) +X (if (y-or-n-p "Send message? ") +X (progn +X (save-buffer) ; save the draft buffer +X (message "Sending...") +X (pop-to-buffer "MH mail delivery"); pop to a buffer for "send" output +X (erase-buffer) +X (call-process "send" nil t t mhdraft) ; call MH "send" +X (if (y-or-n-p "Exit? ") +X (kill-emacs))) ; exit emacs +X (delete-file mhdraft) ; delete the draft letter +X (kill-emacs))) ; exit emacs +END_OF_FILE +if test 1294 -ne `wc -c <'xmh-command.el'`; then + echo shar: \"'xmh-command.el'\" unpacked with wrong size! +fi +# end of 'xmh-command.el' +fi +if test -f 'xmhcommand' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then + echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmhcommand'\" +else +echo shar: Extracting \"'xmhcommand'\" \(669 characters\) +sed "s/^X//" >'xmhcommand' <<'END_OF_FILE' +X#!/bin/sh +X# This shell should be invoked by the xmh XmhShellCommand() action as +X# XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y repl) +X# XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand n comp) etc. +X# If the second arg is y, then the message list will be used. +X +X# We invoke the passed MH command on the identified message +X# (we must strip the message number and folder from the pathname) +X(if [ $1 = "y" ] +Xthen +X $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs +`dirname \`echo $3 | \ +X sed "s;\\\`mhpath +\\\`/;;"\`` `basename $3` +X +X# You can use this more readable version instead if you have ksh +X# $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs +$(dirname $(echo $3 | \ +X# sed "s;$(mhpath +)/;;")) $(basename $3) +X +Xelse +X $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs +Xfi)& +END_OF_FILE +if test 669 -ne `wc -c <'xmhcommand'`; then + echo shar: \"'xmhcommand'\" unpacked with wrong size! +fi +chmod +x 'xmhcommand' +# end of 'xmhcommand' +fi +if test -f 'xmhemacs' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then + echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmhemacs'\" +else +echo shar: Extracting \"'xmhemacs'\" \(116 characters\) +sed "s/^X//" >'xmhemacs' <<'END_OF_FILE' +X#!/bin/sh +X# Invoke xemacs and load the xmh-command.el stuff. +X# xmhemacs is used by xmhcommand +Xxemacs -l xmh-command +END_OF_FILE +if test 116 -ne `wc -c <'xmhemacs'`; then + echo shar: \"'xmhemacs'\" unpacked with wrong size! +fi +chmod +x 'xmhemacs' +# end of 'xmhemacs' +fi +echo shar: End of shell archive. +exit 0 + +------------------------------ + +Subject: babyl2mh.pl +From: Vivek Khera +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +#!/usr/gnu/bin/perl +# incorporate an RMAIL babyl file into an MH folder # -# FAQ -- frequently asked questions +# usage: babyl2mh +folder babyl-file # -# $Id$ +# V. Khera 17-JUL-1991 + +# where to find rcvstore +$rcvstore = "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore"; + +# +# pull out command line args +# +die "usage: babyl2mh +folder babyl-file\n" unless @ARGV == 2; + +$folder = shift; +# make sure folder name starts with a "+" +(substr($folder,0,1) eq "+") || (substr($folder,0,0) = "+"); +$bfname = shift; + +print "Incorporating RMAIL file $bfname into MH folder $folder\n"; + +# +# read in babyl file. +# +$/ = "\037"; # this separates the records in a babyl file +$* = 1; # records are multi-lines + +open(BABYL,$bfname) || die "Couldn't open $bfname\n"; + +$_ = ; # discard header. + +$msgnum = 0; + +while () { + chop; # get rid of delimeter + s/\f(.|\n)*\*\*\* EOOH \*\*\*\n//; # remove duplicate header information + open(RCVSTORE,"|" . $rcvstore . " $folder"); + print RCVSTORE $_; + $msgnum++; + print "Message $msgnum done.\n"; +} + +------------------------------ + +Subject: inco - babyl to MH converter +From: Juergen Nickelsen +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +#!/bin/sh +# Usage: inco [from [folder]] +# "from" defaults to $HOME/Mail/outbound, "folder" to +inbox. + +lispfile=/tmp/inco.$$.el +input=${1-$HOME/Mail/outbound} +tmpmbox=/tmp/inc.$$.mbox +folder=${2-+inbox} + +if [ $# -ge 3 ]; then + echo Usage: `basename $0` [ from [ folder ]] + exit 2 +fi + +trap "rm -f $lispfile $tmpmbox ; exit 1" 1 2 15 + +touch $tmpmbox +chmod 600 $tmpmbox + +echo '(rmail-input "'$input'") +(rmail-last-message) +(setq last (rmail-what-message)) +(rmail-show-message 1) +(while (not (equal (rmail-what-message) last)) + (rmail-output "'$tmpmbox'") + (rmail-delete-forward nil)) +(rmail-output "'$tmpmbox'") +(kill-buffer (current-buffer)) +' > $lispfile + +emacs -batch -l $lispfile +inc -file $tmpmbox $folder + +> $input +rm -f $lispfile $tmpmbox + +------------------------------ + +Subject: t2h - add hyperlinks to message viewed +From: TANAKA Tomoyuki +Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:35:43 -0600 + +#! /bin/sed -f +# "t2h" by TT news:alt.tanaka-tomoyuki http://listen.to/TT +# USE: t2h file.html +# Or: show | t2h | lynx - + +s/&/\&/g +s//\>/g + +s/http:[^ "&) ]*/&<\/a>/g +s/news:[^ "&) ]*/&<\/a>/g +s/ftp:[^ "&) ]*/&<\/a>/g +s/telnet:[^ "&) ]*/&<\/a>/g + +1i\ +
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+ +------------------------------ + +Subject: srvrsmtp.c patch +From: Paul Pomes +Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 + +>From the 5.67 sources: + + *** srvrsmtp.c- Mon Feb 22 12:25:54 1993 + --- srvrsmtp.c Mon Feb 22 12:29:09 1993 + *************** + *** 384,389 **** + --- 384,395 ---- + message("250", "Reset state"); + if (InChild) + finis(); + + + + /* clean up a bit if running in parent */ + + hasmail = FALSE; + + dropenvelope(CurEnv); + + CurEnv = newenvelope(CurEnv); + + CurEnv->e_flags = BlankEnvelope.e_flags; + break; + + case CMDVRFY: /* vrfy -- verify address */ + +------------------------------ + +Subject: IRIX config file +From: Jack Repenning +Date: 25 Jul 1995 02:35:41 GMT + +# Irix 5.3 (based on examples/sys5r4) +bboards on +bin /usr/local/bin/mh +cc cc +ccoptions -g +chown /bin/chown +curses -lcurses +etc /usr/local/lib/mh +ldoptions -L/usr/local/lib/mh +mail /usr/mail +mailgroup: mail +manuals local +mts sendmail/smtp +pop on +popdir /usr/local/bin +ranlib off +#sharedlib sys5 +#slibdir /usr/local/lib/mh +signal void +sprintf int +options BIND +options DBMPWD +options DUMB +options FOLDPROT='"0700"' +options MHE +options MHRC +options MIME +options MORE='"/usr/bsd/more"' +options MSGPROT='"0600"' +options RENAME +options RPATHS +options SBACKUP='"\\#"' +#options SENDMTS +options SGI +#options SMTP +options SOCKETS +options SVR4 +options SYS5 +options SYS5DIR +options UNISTD +options _XOPEN_SOURCE +options VSPRINTF + +From: David Paschich +Date: 23 Apr 96 21:27:12 GMT + +# @(#)$Id$ +# a 4.2BSD VAX system running SendMail +bin /usr/local/bin/mh +bboards off +etc /usr/local/lib/mh +mail /var/mail +manuals local +mandir /usr/local/man +chown /sbin/chown +ranlib off +mts sendmail +signal void +options BIND LOCKF FOLDPROT='"0700"' MHE MHRC MORE='"/usr/bsd/more"' +options MSGPROT='"0600"' RPATHS SENDMTS SGI SMTP SOCKETS SYS5 +options TYPESIG="void" ncr MIME VSPRINTF UNISTD SYSVR4 SYS5DIR + +------------------------------ + +Subject: HP-UX 10.20 config file +From: Marko Heikkinen +Date: 06 Jan 1997 17:19:07 +0000 + +bin /opt/mail/bin +bboards on +etc /opt/mail/lib/mh +editor prompter +remove mv -f +mail /var/mail +mandir /opt/man +manuals standard +chown /bin/chown +cc cc +ccoptions +DA1.0 +DS1.0 +curses -lcurses +mts sendmail/smtp +pop off +slibdir: /opt/mail/lib +options SYS5 +options MHE +options MIME +options ATZ +options BIND +options MHE +options MIME +options ATZ +options BIND +options MHE +options MHRC +options MORE='"/opt/gnu/bin/less"' +options MSGPROT='"0600"' +options NDIR +options NTOHLSWAP +options POPUUMBOX +options SOCKETS +options SYS5 +options TZNAME +options TYPESIG=void +options VSPRINTF +options WHATNOW +options _STRINGS +signal void +curses -lcurses -ltermlib +sprintf int + +------------------------------ + +Subject: Removing duplicate messages (Bourne) +From: Jerry Peek +Date: 20 Nov 1995 18:51:24 GMT + + Here's a simple-minded Bourne shell version. It uses + "scan" to get the message number and message-id of each message. If + a message has the same message-id as the previous message, the + script adds its message number to the "remove" shell variable. + + + #!/bin/sh + lastmsgid=hahahaha + remove= + scan -width 300 -format '%(msg) %{message-id}' | + while read msg msgid; do + if [ "$msgid" = "$lastmsgid" ]; then + remove="$remove $msg" + else + lastmsgid="$msgid" + fi + done + rmm $remove + + That's pretty simple-minded. For example, if the $remove variable + gets too big, your system may complain. And I'm sure there are some + more-efficient ways to find the list of duplicate message-ids. But + that's the idea. + +Subject: Removing duplicate messages (Perl) +From: rtor at ansa.co.uk (Owen Rees) +Date: 20 Nov 1995 12:39:47 GMT + + I wrote a perl script to do this some time ago. All the usual dire + warnings about destructive technology apply - take a backup, do it on + a copy, try it on a small test case first etc. Don't use this script + unless you are prepared to accept the consequences. + +#!/usr/local/bin/perl + +$version = "rmmdup 1"; + +if (@ARGV == 0) { $folder = ""; } +elsif (@ARGV == 1) { $folder = $ARGV[0]; + unless ( $folder =~ /^\+.+$/ ) + { die "usage $0 [+folder]\n"; }; + } +else { die "usage $0 [+folder]\n"; }; + +$rmmlist = ""; + +open (scan, "scan $folder -format '%(msg) %{message-id}'|"); +while () + { if ( ($msg,$msgid) = /^(\d+) (<.*>)$/) + { if ($msgs{$msgid}) + { print "$msg duplicates $msgs{$msgid}\n"; + $rmmlist .= " $msg"; + } + else { $msgs{$msgid} = $msg; }; + }; + }; +if ( $rmmlist ) { exec "rmm $folder $rmmlist"; }; +exit; + +Subject: Removing duplicate messages (Perl) +From: Bill Wohler +Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:00:20 -0700 + +#!/usr/bin/perl -w # +# Id: mhfinddup 6593 2004-09-02 16:34:24Z wohler + +=head1 NAME + +mhfinddup - find duplicate messages + +=head1 SYNOPSIS + +mhfinddup [options] [folder ...] + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +B finds and removes duplicate MH messages in the folders listed on +the command line (default: current folder). By default, you deal with +duplicate messages interactively. You can either remove the duplicate, not +remove the duplicate, or view the original and duplicate message before +deciding. + +If you use the B<-msgid> option to B, then you probably don't want to +list any F<+outbox> folders if you are using the B<--no-same-folder> option +and you want to preserve your sent messages as well as your messages to +mailing lists. + +Note that if you specify one or more folders, or if you use the B<--all> +option, B recursively descends the given folders. + +=head1 CONTEXT + +Context is per B(1). That is, if F<+folder> is given, it will become +the current folder. If multiple folders are given, the last one specified will +become the current folder. + +=head1 OPTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item --all + +Look for duplicates in all folders. If any folders are specified, this option +is ignored. + +=item --debug + +Turn on debugging messages. + +=item --help + +Display the usage of this command. + +=item --list + +List duplicated messages. + +=item --no-same-folder + +Since it is common to use C to file a message in multiple +folders, this script doesn't consider messages in different folders to be +duplicates. Specify this option to list or remove duplicates across folders. + +=item --rmm + +Remove messages non-interactively. Use with care! For safety, the B<--list> +option takes precedence if specified and is a good option to use before using +B<--rmm>. + +=item --version + +Display program version. + +=back + +=head1 RETURN VALUE + +Returns 0 if all is well; non-zero otherwise. + +=head1 EXAMPLES + +=over 0 + +=item mhfinddup + +Interactively remove duplicates from the current folder. + +=item mhfinddup --all --list --no-same-folder + +List all duplicates regardless if they are in different folders or not. + +=item mhfinddup --rmm +lists + +Remove all duplicates in F<+lists>, recursively. + +=back + +=head1 SEE ALSO + +B(1), B(1), B(1) + +=head1 VERSION + +Revision: 6593 + +=head1 AUTHOR + +Bill Wohler -1) What is nmh? +Copyright (c) 2003 Newt Software. All rights reserved. - nmh (new MH) is an electronic mail handling system. It is based on - version 6.8.3 of the MH message system originally developed by the - RAND Corporation and the University of California. +This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or +modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License +as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 +of the License, or (at your option) any later version. -2) Is it nmh, Nmh, nMH, NMH? +This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. - It's nmh. Richard Coleman hates capital letters. +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with this program; if not, you can find it at +http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html or write to the Free Software +Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. -3) Who is developing nmh? +=head1 METHODS - Richard Coleman (coleman@math.gatech.edu) started the nmh project. - After he grew too busy to continue maintaining it, it was handed off - to the net at large. Doug Morris (doug@mhost.com) hosted the web - site and mailing lists, web pages, and CVS repository for a long - time. More recently, the CVS repository has moved to Savannah - (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nmh) and Ken Hornstein - (kenh@pobox.com) is the project maintainer. +=cut -4) Why did Richard start the nmh project? +# Packages and pragmas. +use Getopt::Long; - He reponds: +use strict; - For several reasons. - a) It's an interesting project. - b) I like using MH/nmh. - c) I wanted to increase the portability of MH. - d) I wanted to make MH easier to install (convert to autoconf). - e) I wanted to remove all the unnecessary junk from the - MH distribution (pop daemon, bulletin board support, etc...). - f) UCI seems to have abandoned MH, so someone needed to pick up - the slack. +# Constants. +my $cmd; # name by which command called +($cmd = $0) =~ s|^\./||; # ...minus the leading ./ +my $ver = '6593'; # program version with CVS noise -5) What is the copyright status of nmh? +# Variables (may be overridden by arguments). +my $all = 0; # look in all folders +my $debug = 0; # verbose mode +my $help = 0; # display usage +my $version = 0; # display version +my $list = 0; # list duplicates +my $no_same_folder = 0; # consider duplicates across folders +my $rmm = 0; # remove duplicates without asking - nmh is distributed under a variant of the classical BSD copyright. - Check the COPYRIGHT file in the nmh distribution for the details. - There are some specific files which were contributed to the original - MH package that are copyrighted by their original author. We have - retained the copyright notices of these authors in these files. +# Constants. +my $mhl = "/usr/lib/mh/mhl"; +my $tmp = "/tmp/mhfinddup$$"; - Essentially, you can do anything you want with the nmh package as long - as you don't blame us if it trashes all your mail. +# Parse command line. +# The use of the posix_default option is to ensure that folders like +a are +# not confused with --all. I'd really prefer to set prefix_pattern to "(--|-)" +# so that abbreviations of options can be used without being confused with +# folders, but I couldn't make it so. +my %opts; +Getopt::Long::Configure("pass_through", "posix_default"); +GetOptions('all' => \$all, + 'debug' => \$debug, + 'help' => \$help, + 'list' => \$list, + 'no-same-folder' => \$no_same_folder, + 'rmm' => \$rmm, + 'version' => \$version, + ) or usage(); -6) What is the difference between nmh and MH? +show_version() if ($version); +usage() if ($help || int(@ARGV) != int(map(/^\+/, @ARGV))); - Check the file DIFFERENCES in the nmh distribution for the - (ever growing) list of differences between nmh and MH. +my @folders = expand_folders(@ARGV); +print("Expanded " . join(" ", @ARGV) . " into\n" . join("\n", @folders) . "\n") + if ($debug); -7) Where do I get nmh? +print("Scanning for duplicate messages...\n"); +my %msgs; +foreach my $folder (sort @folders) { + print("Scanning $folder...\n") if ($debug); + open (SCAN, + "MHCONTEXT=$tmp scan +$folder -format '%(msg) %{message-id}'|"); + while () { + if (my ($msg, $msgid) = /^(\d+) (<.*>)$/) { + if ($msgs{$msgid}) { + $msgs{$msgid} =~ m|^\+(.*)/(\d+)$|; + my($f, $m) = ($1, $2); + if ($folder eq $f || $no_same_folder) { + handle_dup($f, $m, $folder, $msg); + } + } else { + $msgs{$msgid} = "+$folder/$msg"; + } + } + } + close(SCAN); +} - The latest version of nmh is available at - http://savannah.gnu.org/download/nmh +unlink("$tmp"); -8) Where is the nmh web page? +sub expand_folders { + my @folders = @_; - The nmh home page is located at - http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nmh/ + print("Getting list of folders..."); + open(FOLDERS, + "flist -recurse " + . (($all == 1 && @folders == 0) ? "-all" : join(" ", @folders)) + . "|") + or die("Could not determine folders\n"); + @folders = (); + chomp(my $current_folder = `mhparam Current-Folder`); + $current_folder = quotemeta($current_folder); + while () { + chomp; + my ($folder, $a, $b, $c, $d, $e, $f, $g, $count) = split; + if ($folder =~ /^$current_folder\+$/) { + $folder =~ s/\+$//; # remove current folder indication + } + next if ($count == 0); + push(@folders, $folder); + } + close(FOLDERS); + print("done\n"); -9) Where is the nmh mailing list? + return(@folders); +} - There is a mailing list for nmh development at: - nmh-workers@mhost.com +sub handle_dup { + my($f1, $m1, $f2, $m2) = @_; - To subscribe, send e-mail to the administrative address: - nmh-workers-request@mhost.com + my $ans; - with the subject "subscribe" (without the quotes). + repeat: + print("+$f2/$m2 duplicate of +$f1/$m1"); -10) Is there an archive of the nmh-workers mailing list? + if ($list) { + print("\n"); + } else { + if ($rmm) { + $ans = "y"; + print("\n"); + } else { + print(", remove? [Yns?] "); + chomp($ans = ); + } - There are, but they are only available if you are subscribed to - the mailing list as well. This is done to try to prevent - harvesting of email addresses for spam lists. For information on - how to use the archive, see the MAILING-LISTS file in the docs - subdirectory of the distribution. + if ($ans eq "y" || $ans eq "") { + system("rmm +$f2 $m2"); + } elsif ($ans eq "s") { + system("$mhl `mhpath +$f1 $m1` `mhpath +$f2 $m2`"); + goto repeat; + } elsif ($ans eq "?") { + print("y, remove message (default)\n" . + "n, don't remove message\n" . + "s, show messages\n" . + "?, show this message\n"); + goto repeat; + } + } +} -11) Where do I report bugs in nmh? + +=head2 usage - Send bug reports and suggestions to - nmh-bugs@mhost.com +Display usage information and exit. -12) Which mail transfer agents (MTA's) are supported? +=cut - The default setup for nmh is to use SMTP, so nmh should work with - most MTA's that provide a standard SMTP connection on port 25. - Also you may configure nmh to use a sendmail interface (still - uses SMTP) by editing the mts.conf file. There is also a configure - option (--enable-pop) to include client-side support for POP. +sub usage { + print <\n\n". + "$cmd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.\n\n". + "This is free software, and you are welcome\n". + "to redistribute it under certain conditions.\n\n". + "See `http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html' for details.\n"); + exit(0); +} - ;; set a few mh-e variables for nmh - (setq mh-progs "/usr/local/nmh/bin/") - (setq mh-lib "/usr/local/nmh/lib/") - (setq mh-comp-formfile "/usr/local/nmh/etc/components") - (setq mh-repl-formfile "/usr/local/nmh/etc/replcomps") +Local Variables: +mode: outline +outline-regexp: "^Subject:" +fill-prefix: " " +End: -- 1.7.10.4