-This file lists the most important differences between mmh and nmh.
-This list is not complete and will never be; it shall give just a
-quick overview on what kind of changes have been made.
+DIFFERENCES between mmh and nmh
+-------------------------------
-Version mmh-0.1 and nmh-1.3-dev (as of 2011-04-13) are compared.
+Updating this file constantly is a pain.
-References are made to docs/schnalke-mmh.pdf. Explanations are to be
-found there. For a detailed list of changes see the VCS changelog.
-To find out how to use the mmh tools, have a look at the man pages.
-
-
-General
--------
-*) All network transfer facilities have been removed. There is no MTS
- (SMTP client) anymore and no POP client. An MSA/MTA is required to
- send mail. An MRA is required to retrieve mail via POP/IMAP. (Sec.
- 2.1.1)
-*) ~/.mh_profile was moved to ~/.mmh/profile. All configuration files
- in the mail storage location (~/Mail) were moved to ~/.mmh. The
- environment variables to change these locations were renamed.
- (Sec. 2.3.5)
-*) Many configure options were removed. (Sec. 2.1.4)
-*) A bunch of recent changes in nmh were pulled into mmh.
-*) The man page mmh-intro(7) was added.
-
-Features
---------
-*) Jon Steinhart's attachment system is made the default and is
- combined smoothly with automatic MIMEification, as needed. The
- `mime' command at the WhatNow prompt is therefore no longer needed
- and thus removed. Use of Mime-Type-Query command (usually file(1))
- to determine the MIME type of an attachment. No more writing of
- mhbuild directives, although it is still possible to do so. (Sec.
- 2.2.2)
-*) The draft folder facility is always used. All support for a single
- draft message is removed. The commands, especially comp(1), were
- adjusted to this change. (Sec. 2.2.4)
-*) A trash folder facility is added. Backup prefixes are no longer
- used. (Sec. 2.2.4)
-*) By default, messages are always displayed serially in a single
- pager session without pausing. Foreign charsets are transcoded
- automatically (with iconv(1)). (Sec. 2.2.2)
-*) Attachments are stored under their filename, instead of the message
- number and MIME part number, by default. Tar files are no longer
- extracted automatically. (Sec. 2.2.2)
-*) scan(1) listings do no longer show body contents.
-*) MMDF maildrop format support is removed. (Sec. 2.2.1) Support for
- UUCP bang paths is gone, too.
-*) There is no more support for automatic message/external-body
- retrieval. The internal FTP client was dropped as well.
-*) Removed the internal pager.
-*) There is no more hardcopy terminal support. (Sec. 2.2.1)
-
-Programs
---------
-*) The old show(1) was dropped and mhshow(1) was renamed to show(1).
- (2.1.3)
-*) Digital typography is added by including Neil Rickert's scripts:
- mhsign(1) is invoked automatically by send(1) if the draft message
- contains `Enc:' or `Sign:' header fields. Up to now, the user needs
- to run mhpgp(1) manually, still. (Sec. 2.2.3)
-*) conflict, rcvtty, viamail, msgchk, and msh were removed. (Sec. 2.1.2)
-*) Replaced install-mh(1) with the shell script mmh(1).
-*) slocal(1) lost its suppress duplicates feature and mmh thus lost the
- dependency on dbm.
-*) packf(1) prints to stdout.
-*) Added mmhwrap(1).
-*) whom(1) is rewritten from scratch.
-*) Many command line switches were removed. (Sec. 2.1.5)
-*) anno(1)'s command line switches were structurally reworked. Check
- the man page for details. (Sec. 2.3.2)
-*) Replaced the command line option `-format foo' with `-form =foo'.
- (Sec. 2.1.5)
-*) Path notations (with +, @, /, .) can now be used more interchangeable.
- (Sec. 2.3.2)
-*) All tools read the profile now. (Sec. 2.3.3)
-*) Renamed the -version switch to -Version.
-
-Sequences
----------
-*) The standard sequences `first', `prev', `cur', `next', `last',
- `all', `new' were renamed to `f', `p', `c', `n', `l', `a', `b',
- respectively.
-*) The unseen sequence and the sequence negation are set by default.
- repl(1) quotes the original message by default and forw(1) uses
- MIME encapsulation by default. (Sec. 2.2.5)
-
-Code
-----
-*) The indent style was changed -- sorry for that. (Sec. 2.3.1)
-*) Standard library functions have replaced local replacements, when
- possible. (Sec. 2.3.4)
-*) The programs are more separated now. Instead of sharing source code,
- the programs invoke each other. (Sec. 2.3.6)
-*) Mmh comprises only about half as much code as nmh-1.3.
+See NEWS for the differences between mmh-0.1 and nmh-1.3-dev.
projects / mmh / blobdiff