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-# FAQ -- frequently asked questions
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-# $Id$
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-
-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. I hate 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.
-
- This FAQ was originally written by Richard, and the "I"s in it
- refer to him.
-
-4) Why are you developing nmh?
-
- 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) Where do I report bugs in nmh?
-
- Send bug reports and suggestions to
- nmh-bugs@mhost.com
-
-11) 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.
-
-12) 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.
-
-13) 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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