Meillo's Mail Handler (mmh) =========================== Mmh is a modified version of the electronic mail handling system nmh. Nmh (new MH) itself was originally based on the package MH-6.8.3, and was intended to be a (mostly) compatible drop-in replacement for MH. In contrast, mmh is not inteded to be a drop-in replacement for nmh, rather mmh breaks compatibility to nmh in order to modernize and simplify it. Mmh is young and small; nmh is established and matured; MH is ancient. This distribution uses the term ``nmh'' to describe something common to nmh and mmh, in order to give credit. Where mmh differs much from nmh, the term ``mmh'' is used to avoid confusing the user. Unfortunately, the terms are not used fully consistent. Installing ---------- Please read the INSTALL file. Copying ------- Mmh uses a BSD-style license, which should be in the top-level of the distribution in a file named COPYRIGHT. Users ----- Start with reading the man page mmh-intro(7). It explains the first steps. For convenience in the shell, have a look at the files docs/COMPLETION-*. They give cookbook examples of how to set up mmh- specific tab completion in your shell. Developers ---------- Information of interest to mmh developers can be found in the README.developers file in the docs subdirectory of this distribution. Markus Schnalke's master's thesis explains the existence, shape, and focus of mmh. You should read it before working on mmh. If you're hacking on the code, you should subscribe to the nmh-workers mailing list. To do so, please visit the nmh-workers info page at . Up to now, mmh has no separate mailing list. Bug reports ----------- Please send bug reports and suggestions to either Markus Schnalke or to the mailing list. Acknowledgments --------------- The MH system was originally developed in 1979 by the RAND Corporation. It was written primarily by Bruce S. Borden after ideas in a memo by R. Stockton Gaines and Norman Z. Shapiro. In 1982, the University of California, Irvine took up maintenance of the software, under the direction of Marshall T. Rose and John L. Romine. nmh was started by Richard Coleman (coleman@math.gatech.edu) after development on MH mostly stopped. He did the original autoconfiscation and most of the other work up until version 1.0. nmh is currently being developed and maintained by a loosely organized group of volunteers. For more information -------------------- There is more information in the docs subdirectory. Please note that several documents are historic. The mmh website is located at . Feel free to contact Markus Schnalke . (The nmh website is located at .)