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9 nmh \- new MH message system
16 is the name of a powerful message handling system. Rather than
17 being a single comprehensive program,
19 consists of a collection
20 of fairly simple single-purpose programs to send, retrieve, save,
21 and manipulate messages.
23 Unlike most mail clients in UNIX,
25 is not a closed system which
26 must be explicitly run, then exited when you wish to return to the shell.
27 You may freely intersperse
29 commands with other shell commands,
30 allowing you to read and answer your mail while you have (for example)
31 a compilation running, or search for a file or run programs as needed
32 to find the answer to someone's question before answering their mail.
34 The rest of this manual entry is a quick tutorial which will teach you
37 You should read the manual entries for the
38 individual programs for complete documentation.
48 command. If you've never used
50 before, it will create the necessary default files and directories after
51 asking you if you wish it to do so.
54 moves mail from your system maildrop into your
57 folder, breaking it up into separate files and converting it
60 format as it goes. It prints one line for each message it
61 processes, containing the from field, the subject field and as much of
62 the first line of the message as will fit. It leaves the first message
63 it processes as your current message. You'll need to run
66 time you wish to incorporate new mail into your
71 prints a list of the messages in your current folder.
79 specific messages from the current folder.
82 current message, or a specific message, which may be specified by its
83 number, which you pass as an argument to
88 display, respectively, the message numerically after or before
89 the current message. In all cases, the message displayed becomes the
90 current message. If there is no current message,
93 called with an argument, or
95 may be used to advance to the
99 (remove message) deletes the current message. It may be called
100 with message numbers passed as arguments, to delete specific messages.
103 is used to respond to the current message (by default).
104 It places you in the editor with a prototype response form. While you're
105 in the editor, you may peruse the item you're responding to by reading
108 After completing your response, type
119 allows you to compose a message by putting you in the editor
120 on a prototype message form, and then lets you send it via the
124 also supports easy\-to\-use management of MIME attachments via
127 and related responses, as described in its man page.
131 commands may be run with the single argument
133 which causes them to print a list of the arguments they may be invoked
138 commands may be run with the single argument
140 which causes them to print the version number of the
142 distribution, and then exit.
144 Commands which take a message number as an argument
148 \&...) also take one of the words \*(lqfirst\*(rq,
149 \*(lqprev\*(rq, \*(lqcur\*(rq, \*(lqnext\*(rq, or \*(lqlast\*(rq to indicate
150 (respectively) the first, previous, current, next, or last message in
151 the current folder (assuming they are defined).
153 Commands which take a range of message numbers
157 \&...) also take any of the abbreviations:
160 Indicates all messages in the range <num1> to <num2>, inclusive.
161 The range must be nonempty.
164 Indicates all messages, i.e.,
173 messages beginning with (or ending with) message
176 may be any of the pre-defined symbols
193 The first, previous, next or last
194 messages, if they exist.
197 There are many other possibilities such as creating multiple folders
198 for different topics, and automatically refiling messages according to
199 subject, source, destination, or content. These are beyond the scope
200 of this manual entry.
204 Following is a list of all the
206 commands, grouped loosely according to their role.
222 prompting front-end for send
227 provides much of the primary
229 user interface for sending mail, it is almost never invoked manually,
230 but rather is invoked indirectly by one of the above commands, after
231 you've composed a message in your editor, and before you've decided to
232 send it. Here you can add attachments, check the recipient
233 list, decide to quit and send it later, etc.
245 report to whom a message would go
248 redistribute a message to additional addresses
251 Advanced commands, only sometimes invoked directly:
255 translate MIME composition draft
261 send multiple files in a MIME message
274 explode digests into messages
280 asynchronously redistribute new mail
283 append message to file
286 asynchronously incorporate new mail
289 asynchronously filter and deliver new mail
297 show the next message
300 show the previous message
303 show(display) messages
306 produce a one line per message scan listing
309 select the next folder with new messages
312 select the previous folder with new messages
315 Related utilities, only sometimes invoked directly:
319 produce formatted listings of nmh messages
322 list information about content of MIME messages
325 display/list/store/cache MIME messages
328 display MIME messages
331 store contents of MIME messages into files
340 select messages by content
346 list folders with new messages
349 list new messages in a give set of folders
352 list folders with messages in given sequence(s)
355 list all folders with messages in given sequence(s)
358 set/list current folder/message
372 file messages in other folders
400 print nmh profile components
403 print full pathnames of nmh messages and folders
406 compress a folder into a single file
409 prompting editor front end
416 Indirectly Invoked Commands
420 parse addresses 822\-style
423 search for alias/password conflicts
426 parse dates 822\-style
434 initialize the nmh environment
441 Files Used by nmh Commands
445 alias file for nmh message system
448 draft folder facility
451 format file for nmh message system
454 message format for nmh message system
457 user customization for nmh message system
460 sequence specification for nmh message system
463 mail transport customization for nmh message system
484 The user's nmh profile
492 If problems are encountered with an
494 program, the problems should
495 be reported to the local maintainers of
498 name of the program should be reported, along with the version information
501 To find out what version of an
503 program is being run, invoke
509 the host it was compiled on, and the date the
512 Send bug reports and suggestions to
513 .IR nmh-workers@nongnu.org .
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