sh configure --help
-2) (IMPORTANT) Edit the user configuration section at the beginning
- of the generated include file `config.h'. Currently, not everything
- is auto-configured, so some #defines must be set manually.
+2) Look through the user configuration section at the beginning
+ of the generated include file `config.h'. All system-specific
+ definitions should be sensed automatically now, but you may
+ want to customize some #defines for your environment.
-3) Edit the user configuration section at the top of the main Makefile.
+3) make
-4) make
+4) make install
-5) make install
-
-6) Edit the file `mts.conf' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory)
+5) Edit the file `mts.conf' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory)
and make any necessary changes for the mail transport interface
you are using.
want to change this if you wish your e-mail to appear as if it
originated on the POP server.
- d) "mmailid" is checked to see if nmh should do username
- masquerading. If the value of this field is non-zero, then
- nmh will check if the pw_gecos field in the password file
- has the form
+ d) "mmailid" allows two different types of email address masquerading
+ when it's set to be non-zero. The first type is GECOS-based
+ masquerading. nmh will check if the user's pw_gecos field in the passwd
+ is of the form:
Full Name <fakeusername>
- If the pw_gecos field has this form, then the internal nmh
- routines that find the username and full name of a user will
- return "fakeusername" and "Full Name" respectively. This is
- useful if you wish messages that you send to appear to come
- from the username of your POP account, rather than your username
- on the local machine.
-
- If you compile with POP support, but only want to use it occasionally,
- then you can always use the `-host' and `-user' options to `inc'
- and `msgchk' instead of changing `mts.conf'.
-
- Check the `mh-tailor' man page for a list of all the available
- options for this file.
-
-7) If you have enabled POP support, make sure that `pop3' (or more
+ If it is, the internal nmh routines that find the username and full
+ name of that user will return "fakeusername" and "Full Name"
+ respectively. This is useful if you want the messages you send to
+ always appear to come from the name of an MTA alias rather than your
+ actual account name. For instance, many organizations set up
+ "First.Last" sendmail aliases for all users. If this is the case,
+ the GECOS field for each user should look like:
+
+ First [Middle] Last <First.Last>
+
+ The other type of masquerading that mmailid turns on is envelope
+ "From:" masquerading based on draft contents. When a user explicitly
+ specifies a "From:" header in a message, nmh uses it rather than
+ constructing its own. However, the SMTP envelope "From:" and the
+ "Sender:" header are set to the user's real address. Turning on
+ mmailid prevents this latter behavior. This is useful when the user
+ wants to pretend to be sending mail "directly" from a remote POP3
+ account, or when remote mail robots incorrectly use the envelope
+ "From:" in preference to the body "From:" (or refuse to take action
+ when the two don't match).
+
+ If you compile with POP support, but don't want to use it exclusively,
+ you can use the `-host' and `-user' options to `inc' and `msgchk'
+ rather than hardcoding values in `mts.conf'.
+
+ Check the `mh-tailor' man page for a list of all the available options
+ for this file.
+
+6) If you have enabled POP support, make sure that `pop3' (or more
precisely the value of the define POPSERVICE in config.h) is defined
in the /etc/services file (or its NIS/NIS+ equivalent) on the client
machine. It should be something equivalent to "110/tcp". This might
have already been done when the pop daemon was installed.
-8) Edit the file `mhn.defaults' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory).
+7) Edit the file `mhn.defaults' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory).
This file contains the default profile entries for the nmh command
`mhn' and is created by the script `mhn.defaults.sh'. This script
will search a generic path (essentially your $PATH) for programs to
If you have specialized programs to handle various types, you will need
to edit the `mhn.defaults' file manually. The syntax of this file is
described in the man page for `mhn', and in section 9.4 of the book
- "MH & xmh: Email for Users and Programmers", 3rd edition, by Jerry Peek.
+ "MH & xmh: Email for Users and Programmers", 3rd edition, by Jerry Peek,
+ on the Internet at <http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/confmhn.htm>.
9) Add an optional global mh.profile, if desired. This profile should be
placed in the nmh `etc' directory with the name `mh.profile'. This
Enable debugging support.
--
-Richard Coleman
-coleman@math.gatech.edu
+The nmh team
+nmh-workers@mhost.com
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