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+#
+# FAQ -- frequently asked questions
+#
+# $Id$
+#
+
+1) What is nmh?
+
+ 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.
+
+2) Is it nmh, Nmh, nMH, NMH?
+
+ It's nmh. Richard Coleman hates capital letters.
+
+3) Who is developing nmh?
+
+ 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) is hosting the
+ mailing lists, web pages, and CVS repository for nmh now.
+
+4) Why did Richard start the nmh project?
+
+ He reponds:
+
+ 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.
+
+5) What is the copyright status of nmh?
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+6) What is the difference between nmh and MH?
+
+ Check the file DIFFERENCES in the nmh distribution for the
+ (ever growing) list of differences between nmh and MH.
+
+7) Where do I get nmh?
+
+ The latest version of nmh is available at
+ ftp://ftp.mhost.com/pub/nmh/nmh.tar.gz
+
+8) Where is the nmh web page?
+
+ The nmh home page is located at
+ http://www.mhost.com/nmh/
+
+9) Where is the nmh mailing list?
+
+ There is a mailing list for nmh development at:
+ nmh-workers@mhost.com
+
+ To subscribe, send e-mail to the administrative address:
+ nmh-workers-request@mhost.com
+
+ with the subject "subscribe" (without the quotes).
+
+10) Is there an archive of the nmh-workers mailing list?
+
+ 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.
+
+11) Where do I report bugs in nmh?
+
+ Send bug reports and suggestions to
+ nmh-bugs@mhost.com
+
+12) Which mail transfer agents (MTA's) are supported?
+
+ 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 using the configure option --with-mts=sendmail.
+ There is also an option (--enable-pop) to include client-side
+ support for POP.
+
+13) Why does `folder' and `flist' overlook some of my subfolders?
+
+ There was a bug in these commands which caused them to quit
+ searching a folder for subfolders too early, if the folder contained
+ subfolders 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.
+
+14) Why doesn't the (X)Emacs package `mh-e' work with
+ nmh?
+
+ In nmh, the default location of things have changed. Also the MH
+ lib directory has been split into a `etc' directory (containing
+ configuration files and components), and a `lib' directory
+ (containing support binaries). So sometimes mh-e has trouble
+ finding the components skeleton for composing new mail or replies.
+ Depending on the install location of nmh at your site, you will
+ need to add something similar to the following to your .emacs file.
+ The lines for `mh-comp-formfile' and `mh-repl-formfile' should point
+ to your personal copies of these files (if you have them) or else
+ point to the default nmh versions.
+
+ ;; 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")
+
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