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Bill Wohler |
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[Nmh-commits] nmh/docs FAQ |
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Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:02:04 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/nmh
Module name: nmh
Changes by: Bill Wohler <wohler> 07/09/24 07:02:04
Modified files:
docs : FAQ
Log message:
The MH web site is now http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/ and the MH
book is now at http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/.
Changed Questions
1.02 ...current version? mailutils 1.2
1.03 Where can I get MH? Debian 4.0 nmh 1.1-RC4, update links,
mu 1.2
1.04 ...references for MH? Refer to SourceForge
1.06 How...print a MH manual? Refer to SourceForge
2.17 How...build MH on a Mac? Use fink
4.05 ...tools to archive MH? Mention swish++, mairix, and namazu
CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/nmh/docs/FAQ?cvsroot=nmh&r1=1.6&r2=1.7
Patches:
Index: FAQ
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/nmh/nmh/docs/FAQ,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -b -r1.6 -r1.7
--- FAQ 10 Mar 2006 09:00:20 -0000 1.6
+++ FAQ 24 Sep 2007 07:02:03 -0000 1.7
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
Organization: Newt Software, Menlo Park, California, USA
Archive-name: mail/mh-faq/part1
-Last-modified: $Date: 2006/03/10 09:00:20 $
-Version: $Revision: 1.6 $
+Last-modified: $Date: 2007/09/24 07:02:03 $
+Version: $Revision: 1.7 $
Posting-Frequency: monthly
This is a living list of frequently asked questions on the mailer
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
Better to build on top than start again. Please read this document
before ever posting to this newsgroup.
- This article is posted monthly. If it has already expired and
- you're not reading this, you can hope that you saved the
- instructions to retrieve the FAQ (see "Where can I get MH") so that
- you can get a copy through other means.
+ This article is posted monthly. If it has already expired and you're
+ not reading this, you can hope that you saved the instructions to
+ retrieve the FAQ (see "Where can I get MH") so that you can get a
+ copy through other means.
Please do not post an answer when someone posts a frequently asked
question; rather, email the relevant section of the FAQ to eliminate
@@ -36,15 +36,15 @@
them to Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>.
Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
- 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006 Bill Wohler
+ 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Bill Wohler
Permission to use, copy, distribute, and translate this document for
any non-commercial purpose is hereby granted, provided that this
copyright notice appears in all copies. Commercial distributions
require prior written consent.
- This article is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ This article is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
!01.03 Where can I get MH?
!01.04 What references exist for MH?
01.05 What other MH software is available?
- 01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
+!01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
01.07 How should I report bugs?
01.08 How can I convert from my mailer to MH?
01.09 What is the copyright status of nmh?
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
02.14 How can I build MH on OS/2?
02.15 Do any POP/IMAP servers handle MH format?
02.16 How can I build MH on Windows?
- 02.17 How can I build MH on a Mac?
+!02.17 How can I build MH on a Mac?
________________________
03.00 Scanning & Reading
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
04.02 Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file?
04.03 Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?"
04.04 How can you save News articles into an MH folder?
- 04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
+!04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
04.06 How can I remove duplicate messages?
04.07 How can I remove holes in numbering?
__________________________
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
05.12 How can I send multi-media (MIME) attachments?
05.13 What's the best way to send mail to a long list of people?
05.14 What is the Dcc header?
-!05.15 How can I make sense of the replcomps file?
+ 05.15 How can I make sense of the replcomps file?
05.16 How can I convert quoted-printable to 8bit in quoted text in replies?
05.17 Can I have aliases include aliases?
05.18 Why doesn't mhmail understand aliases?
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
05.23 How can I remove those "=20" characters when forwarding?
05.24 Can I use mh-format substitution with forw?
05.25 How can I keep repl from breaking long lines?
-+05.26 How do I fix a bogus In-Reply-To or missing References field?
+ 05.26 How do I fix a bogus In-Reply-To or missing References field?
_____________
06.00 Posting
@@ -224,8 +224,8 @@
"/^S.*xx" with most pagers. In GNU Emacs type "M-C-s ^S.*xx", (or
C-r to search backwards), followed by ESC to end the search.
- To skip to new or changed questions, use "/^S.*[!+]" with most pagers and
- "M-C-s ^S.*[!+]" in GNU Emacs.
+ To skip to new or changed questions, use "/^S.*[!+]" with most
+ pagers and "M-C-s ^S.*[!+]" in GNU Emacs.
This article is in digest format. nn may have already broken this
message into separate articles; if not, then type "G %". In rn, use
@@ -247,8 +247,8 @@
since November, 1995.
If you should need the Internet address, use nslookup or dig if you
- have them, or send mail to <dns at grasp.insa-lyon.fr> with
- "help" for a Subject.
+ have them, or send mail to <dns at grasp.insa-lyon.fr> with "help"
+ for a Subject.
References to $MHLIB refer to the directory that contains MH support
files and routines. This directory is usually /usr/lib/mh or
@@ -283,18 +283,17 @@
run MH.
The big difference between MH and most other "mail user agents" is
- that you can use MH from a Unix shell prompt. In MH, each command
- is a separate program, and the shell is used as an interpreter. So,
- all the power of Unix shells (pipes, redirection, history, aliases,
- and so on) works with MH--you don't have to learn a new interface.
- Other mail agents have their own command interpreter for their
- individual mail commands (although the mush mail agent simulates a
- Unix shell).
+ that you can use MH from a Unix shell prompt. In MH, each command is
+ a separate program, and the shell is used as an interpreter. So, all
+ the power of Unix shells (pipes, redirection, history, aliases, and
+ so on) works with MH--you don't have to learn a new interface. Other
+ mail agents have their own command interpreter for their individual
+ mail commands (although the mush mail agent simulates a Unix shell).
Because MH commands aren't part of a monolithic mail system, you can
use them at any time; you don't have to start or quit the mail
- agent. Because you use them from a shell prompt, you can use all
- the power of the shell.
+ agent. Because you use them from a shell prompt, you can use all the
+ power of the shell.
If your shell has time-saving aliases or functions (and most do),
you'll be able to use them with MH, of course. And because MH isn't
@@ -314,7 +313,7 @@
Subject: !01.02 What is the current version/status of MH.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
-Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 21:53:33 -0800
+Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:52 -0700
The current official version of MH is 6.8.3, although a beta of
6.8.4 is available.
@@ -343,7 +342,7 @@
The file DIFFERENCES in the nmh distribution contains an
ever-growing list of differences between nmh and MH.
- GNU mailutils (version 0.6) is a collection of mail-related
+ GNU mailutils (version 1.2) is a collection of mail-related
utilities. At the core of mailutils is libmailbox, a library which
provides access to various forms of mailbox files (including remote
mailboxes via popular protocols and MH). See
@@ -353,14 +352,14 @@
Subject: !01.03 Where can I get MH?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:55:37 -0800
+Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:46 -0700
MH comes standard with:
Berkeley Software Design BSD/386 . . . . MH 6.8.3
Control Data Corp. CDC4680-MP . . . . . . EMH 1.4.2 (modified MH)
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . nmh 1.1-RC3
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . mailutils 0.6.1
+ Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . nmh 1.1-RC4
+ Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . mailutils 1.1
DEC Ultrix 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.5
DEC Ultrix 4.2A.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7.1
DEC OSF/1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7
@@ -373,28 +372,23 @@
SGI Irix 6.2 Freeware 2.0 CDROM . . . . . MH 6.8.3
Sony NEWS-OS 4.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7.2
Tektronix UTek . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH (Version Unknown)
- Table maintained by: "James R. Hamilton" <jrh at interlog.com>
Download MH:
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/nmh/nmh-1.2.tar.gz 831kB
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z 2MB
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z 2MB
- ftp://ftp.efd.lth.se/pub/mail/mh-6.8.3.tar.gz 1.3MB
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/updates/MH.6.8.4.Z 46kB
Download GNU mailutils:
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-0.6.tar.gz 2.7MB
+ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-1.2.tar.gz 3.4MB
------------------------------
Subject: !01.04 What references exist for MH?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
-Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 21:57:18 -0800
+Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:41 -0700
The Web:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/
http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/
http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/
@@ -407,22 +401,9 @@
Out of print as of August, 1996.
References to "the MH book" in this document refer to the third
- edition of this book (section numbers for the second edition
- appear in parentheses). Links to the online edition are to the
- updated third edition at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/.
-
- This book is also available online in the following locations:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/ (western USA, Web)
- http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/mirrors/mh-book/ (eastern USA, Web)
- http://www.fan.net.au/mirrors/freebooks/mh/ (Australia, Web)
- http://www.huygens.org/~eijk/mh_book/ (the Netherlands, Web)
- http://www.funet.fi/index/MH/book/ (Finland, Web)
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/book/index.htm (western USA, FTP)
- ftp://ftp.funet.fi/index/MH/book/index.htm (Finland, FTP)
-
- Examples from this book are in:
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/published/oreilly/nutshell/MHxmh/MHxmh3.tar.Z 114k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/book/download/MHxmh3.tar.Z (updated) 115k
+ edition (plus updates) of this book online at
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/. Section numbers for the
+ second edition may appear in parentheses.
There is another book that contains a number of examples of
advanced mail handing using MH as the example message handler.
@@ -455,51 +436,24 @@
The page for each list contains a link to the archives.
MH-users archives:
- The files are in packf(1) format, compressed with compress(1). To
- get them, use anonymous ftp and set "binary" transfer mode.
+ Current archives can be found at:
- current archive, uncompressed:
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.mbox
+ http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.95.Z 1724k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.95.scan.Z 113k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.94.Z 1669k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.94.scan.Z 57k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.93.Z 1507k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.93.scan.Z 51k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.92.Z 1251k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.92.scan.Z 43k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.91.Z 858k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.91.scan.Z 36k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.90.Z 393k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.90.scan.Z 21k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.89.Z 89k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.89.scan.Z 5k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.88.Z 178k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.88.scan.Z 11k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.87.Z 54k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.87.scan.Z 3k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.86.Z 8k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.86.scan.Z 771
-
- There are directions in ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/README.
- Basically, you can use either "msh" or the individual commands
- "inc -file" to get the messages into a folder, and then "scan",
- "pick", "show", and so on (or your favorite commands in xmh, MH-E,
- etc.). --Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
-
- Achim Bohnet <ach at rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de> has created an
- excellent indexed version of the archive, plus some other archives
- besides.
-
- http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/mh-users/
- http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/exmh/
- http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/
- http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/mhonarc/
+ Older archive can be found in the mh-users and mh-workers archives
+ at:
+
+
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143658&package_id=188462
+
+ There are directions in the release notes. Basically, you can use
+ either "msh" or the individual commands "inc -file" to get the
+ messages into a folder, and then "scan", "pick", "show", and so on
+ (or your favorite commands in xmh, MH-E, etc.). --Jerry Peek
+ <jpeek at jpeek.com>
This document:
http://www.newt.com/faq/mh.html
- http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/mail/mh-faq/part1.html
+ http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/mail/mh-faq/part1.html
MH-E documentation:
GNU Emacs 19.29 comes with a version of MH-E that includes online
@@ -513,7 +467,7 @@
The FAQ is available at http://www.beedub.com/exmh/exmh-faq.html.
The online exmh sections from the MH book can be found at
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/exmh/tocs/jump.htm.
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/index.html#chTourexmh
Signature and Finger FAQ:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/signature-faq/
@@ -604,7 +558,7 @@
ftp://ftp.aist-nara.ac.jp/pub/elisp/Mew/mew-current.tar.gz
[MH-E has had these capabilities since version 7.0 so mew is
- obsolete if you use MH-E.--Ed]
+ obsolete if you use MH-E. --Ed]
From: James Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
@@ -766,8 +720,8 @@
From: Barbara Dyker <dyker at teal.csn.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
- QuemeMH is an email based service request and tracking system
- based on the Rand Mail Handler.
+ QueueMH is an email based service request and tracking system based
+ on the Rand Mail Handler.
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/sysadmin/utilities/queuemh.tar.Z 98k
@@ -834,12 +788,12 @@
FAX: +1 714-727-3922
Internet: info at netix.com
- In addition, you might try Wollongong, to see if they have something you
- can get.
+ In addition, you might try Wollongong, to see if they have
+ something you can get.
[This information appears to be out of date. Please send me
pointers to valid information. Potential sites include
- jessica.stanford.edu.--Ed]
+ jessica.stanford.edu. --Ed]
Two other potential methods to run MH under Windows: Run Unix
under Windows with VMware (http://www.vmware.com/) or try to
@@ -847,41 +801,28 @@
------------------------------
-Subject: 01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
+Subject: !01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>, Jos Vos <jos at bull.nl>
-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:21:49 -0700
+Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:33 -0700
- First, check out the documents available on http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/.
+ Documentation in text and PostScript format is found in the
+ MH-doc.tgz tarball on:
- To order a copy by mail, see the section on how to get MH by mail
- (see "Where can I get MH?" and "What references exist for MH?").
+
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143658&package_id=188464
- To print your own copy, first obtain the MH sources (see "Where can
- I get MH?") if you don't already have it. Go into the "doc"
- directory and run "make guide" to create the administrators guide
- and "make manual" to create a user's manual which includes tutorials
- and man pages. If the doc directory is empty or is missing the
- Makefile, you'll have to run "mhconfig MH" in the conf directory so
- that the documentation with correct local information is created.
+ To generate your own copy for printing, first obtain the MH sources
+ (see "Where can I get MH?") if you don't already have it. Go into
+ the "doc" directory and run "make guide" to create the
+ administrators guide and "make manual" to create a user's manual
+ which includes tutorials and man pages. If the doc directory is
+ empty or is missing the Makefile, you'll have to run "mhconfig MH"
+ in the conf directory so that the documentation with correct local
+ information is created.
For properly formatting the documentation (at least the manual
pages) you might even have to install MH, because a reference to a
tmac.h file in the MH lib directory is made in the manual pages.
- You can also ftp the ASCII or postscript versions:
-
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/doc/tutorial.ps.Z 65k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/doc/ADMIN.ps.Z
56k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/doc/MH.ps.Z (man pages) 261k
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/doc/tutorial.ps.Z
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/doc/ADMIN.ps.Z
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mh/doc/MH.ps.Z (man pages)
-
- Or, you can send a note to <mail-server at NL.net> with a body
- containing the following:
-
- send /mail/mh/papers-ps/tutorial.ps.Z
-
------------------------------
Subject: 01.07 How should I report bugs?
@@ -908,13 +849,12 @@
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
If you use one of a mail agent like 'mail', 'mailx', 'elm' or
- 'mush', converting to MH is easy. When you run the 'inc' command,
- it reads all new messages from the system mailbox into your 'inbox'
- folder. Those mail agents also have separate files or "folders"
- that hold messages in the same format as the system mailbox. You
- can read them with the 'inc -file' command. For example, to read
- the messages from your 'mbox' mail file into your MH 'inbox' folder,
- you'd type:
+ 'mush', converting to MH is easy. When you run the 'inc' command, it
+ reads all new messages from the system mailbox into your 'inbox'
+ folder. Those mail agents also have separate files or "folders" that
+ hold messages in the same format as the system mailbox. You can read
+ them with the 'inc -file' command. For example, to read the messages
+ from your 'mbox' mail file into your MH 'inbox' folder, you'd type:
% cd
% cp mbox mbox.backup
@@ -928,8 +868,8 @@
From: "Jason R. Mastaler" <jason at Mastaler.COM>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
- You can also specify an alternate folder to inc. Here's how you
- can convert all your folders en masse:
+ You can also specify an alternate folder to inc. Here's how you can
+ convert all your folders en masse:
for arg in `cat flist`; do
echo "converting $arg"
@@ -952,8 +892,8 @@
From: Juergen Nickelsen <nickel at cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
- You can remove the second to last second line ("> $input"), so
- that the script doesn't zero out your RMAIL file.
+ You can remove the second to last second line ("> $input"), so that
+ the script doesn't zero out your RMAIL file.
Another alternative is to replace this line with "inc -file $tmpmbox
$folder && > $input", so that the RMAIL is only zeroed if inc
@@ -1024,7 +964,8 @@
If you're having troubles building MH, it could be that the problem
has already been fixed, but hasn't yet gotten into an official
- release. Please see http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/ for more info.
+ release. Please see http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/ for more
+ info.
------------------------------
@@ -1038,21 +979,21 @@
on my replcomps file.
LOCKF: if you have NFS, you need to lock your mailbox with lockf()
- so the lock will be honored by all machines on the local network.
- If you have the lockf() system call, include LOCKF.
+ so the lock will be honored by all machines on the local network. If
+ you have the lockf() system call, include LOCKF.
- JQ Johnson <jqj at duff.uoregon.edu> makes the point that one
- should use this option carefully since it requires a robust lockf()
- call. For example, this option caused serious problems on his SunOS
- 4.1.1. He suggested using LOK_BELL instead, and adding "lockstyle:
- 1" to $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor).
+ JQ Johnson <jqj at duff.uoregon.edu> makes the point that one should
+ use this option carefully since it requires a robust lockf() call.
+ For example, this option caused serious problems on his SunOS 4.1.1.
+ He suggested using LOK_BELL instead, and adding "lockstyle: 1" to
+ $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor).
ATZ: makes your timezones print like "EST" instead of "-0500". Much
prettier. --Stephen Gildea <gildea at stop.mail-abuse.org>
- However, Tony Landells <ahl at technix.oz.au> replies: "Yes;
- very pretty. How unfortunate that timezone names are so ambiguous,
- so that EST can be interpreted, at a minimum, as (American) Eastern
+ However, Tony Landells <ahl at technix.oz.au> replies: "Yes; very
+ pretty. How unfortunate that timezone names are so ambiguous, so
+ that EST can be interpreted, at a minimum, as (American) Eastern
Standard Time, (Australian) Eastern Standard Time, or (Australian)
Eastern Summer Time (and yes, I think it's dumb having the same
acronym for both normal and Summer time, but that's a different
@@ -1123,10 +1064,10 @@
things are going to look like. MH has static message numbers until
you pack a folder; IMAP keeps two numbers on a message, one which is
absolutely static and one which is relative to the top of a mailbox.
- Messages in IMAP are essentially immutable. IMAP doesn't
- (currently) allow message annotations. fmh will keep state with a
- background daemon instead of writing it to disk, and will probably
- try and keep as little on disk as possible.
+ Messages in IMAP are essentially immutable. IMAP doesn't (currently)
+ allow message annotations. fmh will keep state with a background
+ daemon instead of writing it to disk, and will probably try and keep
+ as little on disk as possible.
fmh doesn't understand MH folders at the moment, and probably won't
for a really long time, if ever. As I said before, we're mostly
@@ -1139,8 +1080,8 @@
client. Also, the MH code isn't going to take the introduction of
IMAP without a near complete rewrite.
- It is not available yet. Inquiries are welcome at
- <tjs+fmh at andrew.cmu.edu>.
+ It is not available yet. Inquiries are welcome at <tjs+fmh at
+ andrew.cmu.edu>.
From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at rahul.net>
Date: 23 Sep 1996 08:39:52 GMT
@@ -1154,21 +1095,21 @@
IMAP was never designed to emulate a filesytem. MH was designed to
make direct advantage of the filesytem structure. There is no
- compatibility between the two. By the time IMAP is revised enough
- to support MH you will have reinvented NFS.
+ compatibility between the two. By the time IMAP is revised enough to
+ support MH you will have reinvented NFS.
- There *is* scope for redesign here, though. It would be nice to
- have a single-user filesystem. Create a binary telnet session to
- the filesystem server, log in as yourself, and then over that
- session run a filesystem protocol. Normal filesystem protections at
- the other end will be sufficient for all permissions checking, so
- the filesystem protocol would need to do no other permissions
- checking. The question of whom to export directories to would go
- away: They are exported to whoever completes a successful login, and
- accessible to the user if he would be able to access them on the
- server as his login id. You could even use challenge-response for
- the initial login, coupled with ssh-based encryption, so you
- automatically have a secure filesystem without even trying.
+ There *is* scope for redesign here, though. It would be nice to have
+ a single-user filesystem. Create a binary telnet session to the
+ filesystem server, log in as yourself, and then over that session
+ run a filesystem protocol. Normal filesystem protections at the
+ other end will be sufficient for all permissions checking, so the
+ filesystem protocol would need to do no other permissions checking.
+ The question of whom to export directories to would go away: They
+ are exported to whoever completes a successful login, and accessible
+ to the user if he would be able to access them on the server as his
+ login id. You could even use challenge-response for the initial
+ login, coupled with ssh-based encryption, so you automatically have
+ a secure filesystem without even trying.
IMAP is too restricted in its scope to be easily modifiable to
emulate such a filesystem. It would have to be a redesign from
@@ -1239,9 +1180,9 @@
If "mailgroup" is set, inc is made set-group-id to this group name.
Some SYS5 systems want this to be set to "mail". Set this if
- /usr/spool/mail (or /usr/mail) is not world-writable. These
- changes were contributed by Peter Marvit, and "inc" is very careful
- about its use of the set-gid privilege.
+ /usr/spool/mail (or /usr/mail) is not world-writable. These changes
+ were contributed by Peter Marvit, and "inc" is very careful about
+ its use of the set-gid privilege.
Note that slocal doesn't know how to deal with this, and will not
work under these systems; just making it set-group-id will open a
@@ -1270,8 +1211,8 @@
Casper H.S. Dik <casper at fwi.uva.nl>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:57:25 -0700
- First, don't use the BSD compatible stuff. Make sure that the Sun
- or GNU compiler appear before the BSD compiler in your PATH (e.g.,
+ First, don't use the BSD compatible stuff. Make sure that the Sun or
+ GNU compiler appear before the BSD compiler in your PATH (e.g.,
/usr/ccs/bin).
Second, don't use GNU make. Make sure that the Sun make appears
@@ -1301,8 +1242,8 @@
use explicit cast
If you're using AFS, you'll have to replace any occurrence of "ln"
- with "ln -s" wherever the make dies when it tries to make a link
- "on a different file system."
+ with "ln -s" wherever the make dies when it tries to make a link "on
+ a different file system."
See also ftp://ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.faq.
@@ -1348,7 +1289,8 @@
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 23:04:53 -0800
- The Debian distribution of Linux comes with an MH and nmh packages. See
+ The Debian distribution of Linux comes with an MH and nmh packages.
+ See
http://www.debian.org/.
@@ -1367,8 +1309,8 @@
Date: 18 Apr 96 14:00:20 GMT
If you are running Redhat and have rpm available you can also use
- ftp://???/pub/redhat-3.0.3/i386/RedHat/RPMS/mh-6.8.3-5.i386.rpm.
- The source code is in
+ ftp://???/pub/redhat-3.0.3/i386/RedHat/RPMS/mh-6.8.3-5.i386.rpm. The
+ source code is in
ftp://???/pub/redhat-3.0.3/i386/SRPMS/mh-6.8.3-5.i386.rpm
From: "Brandon S. Allbery" <bsa at kf8nh.wariat.org>
@@ -1378,9 +1320,8 @@
works with libc-4.4, which is no longer used. The current patch is
split into two pieces, as with the previous patch, but now the
divisions are purely functional: the first diff enables MH to
- compile, the second allows creation of a shared library. [Ed: The
- paths are up to date, but I think the info in this paragraph is
- old.]
+ compile, the second allows creation of a shared library. [The paths
+ are up to date, but I think the info in this paragraph is old. --Ed]
Recent versions of GNU make choke on MH's makefiles. Unfortunately,
the shared library patches depend on "export". If you have problems
@@ -1513,7 +1454,6 @@
The MH Patch Archive has been opened at
http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/
- ftp://ftp.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/
It is a collection of patches to MH (the RAND MH Message Handling
System), a set of electronic mail programs in the public domain.
@@ -1529,10 +1469,11 @@
I will be the primary maintainer of the archive. Even though I will
be monitoring several sources for new material (mainly the
- comp.mail.mh newsgroup but also the mailing lists
- <mh-workers at ics.uci.edu>, <mh-e-users at lists.sourceforge.net> and
- <exmh-workers at redhat.com>), I'd like to encourage everyone to submit
- patches also directly to the archive at <mh-archive at gw.com>.
+ comp.mail.mh newsgroup but also the mailing lists <mh-workers at
+ ics.uci.edu>, <mh-e-users at lists.sourceforge.net> and
+ <exmh-workers at redhat.com>), I'd like to encourage everyone to
+ submit patches also directly to the archive at <mh-archive at
+ gw.com>.
------------------------------
@@ -1644,16 +1585,18 @@
------------------------------
-Subject: 02.17 How can I build MH on a Mac?
+Subject: !02.17 How can I build MH on a Mac?
From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el at lisse.na>
-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:52:47 +0200
+Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 13:43:19 +0100
+
+ nmh compiles on the G4 iBook running Mac OS X 10.3.7 more or less
+ out of the box with the powerpc HOST option. Use make all install.
- nmh compiles on the G4 iBook running Mac OS X 10.3.7 more or less out
- of the box with the powerpc HOST option. Use make all install.
- A fink package is available to make this even easier.
+ Use fink to install the nmh package on Max OS X 10.3.9 (and 10.4.1).
- metamail does not work out of the box. I received a patch that did
- get it to run.
+ metamail does not work out of the box. However,
+ metamail-2.7.19-1030.src.rpm (SuSE) which compiles and installs
+ cleanly.
For exmh, first use fink to install the tcltk package. Then use fink
to install exmh.
@@ -1695,19 +1638,18 @@
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 12:32:09 -0800
- You can post via mail. Send your article to
- <mail2news at news.demon.co.uk> with a legitimate Newsgroups
- field.
+ You can post via mail. Send your article to <mail2news at
+ news.demon.co.uk> with a legitimate Newsgroups field.
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
You can save articles in the news readers for later perusal with MH.
- First, create a symbolic link from your mail directory (e.g., usenet) to
- your news directory (e.g., "ln -s ~/News ~/Mail/usenet"). You can then
- treat your news directory as a mail folder. Thus, to select a news
- group, use "folder +usenet/comp/mail/mh".
+ First, create a symbolic link from your mail directory (e.g.,
+ usenet) to your news directory (e.g., "ln -s ~/News ~/Mail/usenet").
+ You can then treat your news directory as a mail folder. Thus, to
+ select a news group, use "folder +usenet/comp/mail/mh".
To set the default save location correctly in rn, use:
@@ -1748,25 +1690,25 @@
I haven't looked into posting. It seems like it shouldn't be hard.
You could set up a "sendproc" that would look at outgoing email
messages. If the message had a Newsgroups: header field, your
- sendproc could call inews(1) instead of post(8). I haven't seen
- much in the MH manpages or documentation about sendprocs (though I
- haven't looked for a couple of years...). See the "mysend"
- script in the MH book section 7.1.4 (13.13), or the URL:
+ sendproc could call inews(1) instead of post(8). I haven't seen much
+ in the MH manpages or documentation about sendprocs (though I
+ haven't looked for a couple of years...). See the "mysend" script in
+ the MH book section 7.1.4 (13.13), or the URL:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/senove.htm#ASAtDm
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/senove.html#ASAtDm
A threaded news reader like trn or tin is so much nicer, though,
that reading news with MH may not be worth the hassle.
See also MH book section 9.9 (8.7), or the URL:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/shafol.htm
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/shafol.html
From: Stephen Gildea <gildea at stop.mail-abuse.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
- Although news readers are better, if one really wants to use
- MH, bbc will do the job. For example, "bbc comp.mail.mh" reads this
+ Although news readers are better, if one really wants to use MH, bbc
+ will do the job. For example, "bbc comp.mail.mh" reads this
newsgroup. To enable bbc, you have to specify "bboards" when you
build MH.
@@ -1779,8 +1721,7 @@
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
- See mhunify in (see also "What other MH software is
- available?").
+ See mhunify in (see also "What other MH software is available?").
------------------------------
@@ -1811,8 +1752,8 @@
See MH book sections 8.2.9 (7.2.9), 8.9.3 (7.8.3), or the URLs:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/finpic.htm#SeMTOnFo
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/usilin.htm#AFoFuoLi
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/finpic.html#SeMTOnFo
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/usilin.html#AFoFuoLi
------------------------------
@@ -1881,9 +1822,9 @@
See also MH book sections 6.2.3, 9.4.4, 9.4.5, or the URLs:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/remime.htm#HomhShMe
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/confmhn.htm#ShComhsh
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/confmhn.htm#DiOChSmc
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/remime.html#HomhShMe
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/confmhn.html#ShComhsh
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/confmhn.html#DiOChSmc
From: Michael K. Neylon <mneylon at engin.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
@@ -1900,8 +1841,8 @@
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
- On nmh, you can do this just by "show -nocheckmime". This will disable
- the detection of MIME messages.
+ On nmh, you can do this just by "show -nocheckmime". This will
+ disable the detection of MIME messages.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
@@ -1917,8 +1858,8 @@
See also MH book sections 6.2.3, 6.2.10, or the URLs:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/remime.htm#HomhShMe
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/remime.htm#Alttomhn
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/remime.html#HomhShMe
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/remime.html#Alttomhn
------------------------------
@@ -1946,12 +1887,12 @@
From: mccammaa at expt05.stp.xfi.bp.com (Andy McCammont)
Date: 22 May 1995 06:27:36 -0400
- On System V system, add this to your crontab. If you don't have
- one, put this in a file, and run "crontab file". If your system
- does not support personal crontab files, get your system
- administrator to add an equivalent line to the system crontab file
- or daily clean-up script. Note that some administrators set the
- prefix character to '#'.
+ On System V system, add this to your crontab. If you don't have one,
+ put this in a file, and run "crontab file". If your system does not
+ support personal crontab files, get your system administrator to add
+ an equivalent line to the system crontab file or daily clean-up
+ script. Note that some administrators set the prefix character to
+ '#'.
# Remove old MH files
5 5 * * * find /PATH/TO/HOME/Mail -name ",*" -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
@@ -1986,8 +1927,8 @@
# su - user
user% inc -file user.tmp # incorporate user's old mail
- Any mail that you receive in the fraction of a second that the second
- set of commands takes will be lost.
+ Any mail that you receive in the fraction of a second that the
+ second set of commands takes will be lost.
(See also "Why does inc hang (on Sun)?")
@@ -2209,8 +2150,8 @@
mhshow-show-text/html: %lnetscape -remote 'openURL(file:%f, new-window)'
mhn-show-text/html: %lnetscape -remote 'openURL(file:%f, new-window)'
- The % escapes are described in the mhshow (mhn) man page. The
- ", new-window" argument in the netscape invocation is optional, but
+ The % escapes are described in the mhshow (mhn) man page. The ",
+ new-window" argument in the netscape invocation is optional, but
handy. After reading the message, you can dismiss the window with
M-w and go back to reading mail.
@@ -2242,16 +2183,16 @@
mhstore-store-message/rfc822: | mhstore -file -
- With that, mhstore will happily recurse down storing everything on its
- way. Not very discriminate, but the line can be altered to limit
+ With that, mhstore will happily recurse down storing everything on
+ its way. Not very discriminate, but the line can be altered to limit
without destroying the recursion:
mhstore-store-message/rfc822: | mhstore -auto -type message/rfc822 -type
image/jpeg -file -
which also names the files automatically for good measure.
- And, FWIW, I engage this by putting it in a separate file and invoking
- mhstore like
+ And, FWIW, I engage this by putting it in a separate file and
+ invoking mhstore like
env MHSTORE=mhn.rec mhstore
@@ -2292,8 +2233,8 @@
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
- To convert your MH folders to BABYL folders, first run the following script
- on your Mail directory.
+ To convert your MH folders to BABYL folders, first run the following
+ script on your Mail directory.
#!/bin/sh
@@ -2308,12 +2249,13 @@
fi
done
- This assumes you don't have nested folders. Your rmail folders will be
- left in $HOME/Mail-rmail in MMDF format which rmail can read. Then run
- rmail-input for each folder, which converts each folder into BABYL format.
+ This assumes you don't have nested folders. Your rmail folders will
+ be left in $HOME/Mail-rmail in MMDF format which rmail can read.
+ Then run rmail-input for each folder, which converts each folder
+ into BABYL format.
- Be sure not to append any messages before they are converted from MMDF
- to BABYL, since there may be really strange results.
+ Be sure not to append any messages before they are converted from
+ MMDF to BABYL, since there may be really strange results.
------------------------------
@@ -2346,22 +2288,24 @@
refile +tex/info-tex `pick -to info-tex`
- That can still generate a long list of arguments to the "refile" command,
- and some Unixes can't handle that. In that case, use xargs(1):
+ That can still generate a long list of arguments to the "refile"
+ command, and some Unixes can't handle that. In that case, use
+ xargs(1):
pick -to info-tex | xargs refile +tex/info-tex
- If worse comes to worst, fire up a Bourne shell and use a "while" loop:
+ If worse comes to worst, fire up a Bourne shell and use a "while"
+ loop:
pick -to info-tex | fmt | while read nums; do
refile +tex/info-tex $nums
done
The fmt(1) command breaks long lines into manageable chunks of 72
- characters or so, splitting arguments at whitespace. When you redirect
- the input of a while loop, a "read" command will read the incoming text
- and store it in a shell variable line by line. This is a quick-&-dirty
- way to write xargs(1) if you don't have it.
+ characters or so, splitting arguments at whitespace. When you
+ redirect the input of a while loop, a "read" command will read the
+ incoming text and store it in a shell variable line by line. This is
+ a quick-&-dirty way to write xargs(1) if you don't have it.
------------------------------
@@ -2369,8 +2313,8 @@
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
- If your newsreader handles backquotes on its command line, you can use
- the mhpath command. For instance, if your "save" command is "s":
+ If your newsreader handles backquotes on its command line, you can
+ use the mhpath command. For instance, if your "save" command is "s":
s `mhpath new +somefolder`
@@ -2378,8 +2322,8 @@
aliases, you could define that as a command.
If your newsreader can pipe an article to the standard input of a
- program, use the "rcvstore" command (in the MH library). For instance,
- if your "pipe" command is "|":
+ program, use the "rcvstore" command (in the MH library). For
+ instance, if your "pipe" command is "|":
| $MHLIB/rcvstore +somefolder
@@ -2387,7 +2331,23 @@
------------------------------
-Subject: 04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
+Subject: !04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
+From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
+Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:35:53 -0700
+
+ For those of lesser means, I have three shell scripts for archiving,
+ seeking, and extracting MH messages that I had been using for a
+ couple of decades. Send mail if interested.
+
+ However, now that disk space is cheap and one can index years worth
+ of mail in a minute or two, I haven't run those scripts in a few
+ years. I intend to update them to index and archive a years-worth of
+ mail at some point.
+
+ Since glimpse is no longer free (as in speech), I've switched to
+ swish++. Other indexing tools (which are also compatible with MH-E)
+ include mairix and namazu.
+
From: glimpse at cs.arizona.edu
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:26:24 -0800
@@ -2398,14 +2358,6 @@
http://www.webglimpse.org/
-From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
-Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 17:10:59 -0800
-
- For those of lesser means, I have three shell scripts for archiving,
- seeking, and extracting MH messages that I have been using for
- almost 10 years. Send mail if interested. Note that I intend to
- switch to Glimpse if I get a moment.
-
------------------------------
Subject: 04.06 How can I remove duplicate messages?
@@ -2430,8 +2382,8 @@
field using the sortm(1) command.
After the sort, each message should be next to its duplicates in the
- folder. Use a script (shell, Perl, etc.) to weed out the
- duplicates. (See "Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)").
+ folder. Use a script (shell, Perl, etc.) to weed out the duplicates.
+ (See "Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)").
The Perl script in (see "Removing duplicate messages (Perl)") does
not require that you first sort the folder.
@@ -2464,8 +2416,8 @@
From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
- In nmh, to include a message in a reply with a leading ">", just
- use "repl -format".
+ In nmh, to include a message in a reply with a leading ">", just use
+ "repl -format".
From: Alan Thew <qq11 at liv.ac.uk>, Mike Schwager <schwager at cs.uiuc.edu>,
James T Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
@@ -2492,13 +2444,13 @@
body:component="> ",overflowtext="> ",overflowoffset=0
Setting overflowoffset to 0 keeps MH from doing anything to
- extra-long lines in the headers. In the body, however, this
- behavior is overridden so that long lines are automatically broken
- and a ">" is inserted before every line. You could put almost
- whatever you want between those quotes, although the "standard" ">"
- makes it easier to read notes that have been included several times.
- The examples differ with the descriptive text that is inserted
- before the included body.
+ extra-long lines in the headers. In the body, however, this behavior
+ is overridden so that long lines are automatically broken and a ">"
+ is inserted before every line. You could put almost whatever you
+ want between those quotes, although the "standard" ">" makes it
+ easier to read notes that have been included several times. The
+ examples differ with the descriptive text that is inserted before
+ the included body.
It is suggested not to use the "prompter" editor in this case, since
it is likely that you'll not want to use all of the included
@@ -2506,15 +2458,15 @@
include verbiage so readers don't have to wade through the morass to
read your pearls of wisdom.
- WARNING: the '>' appears on the first line ONLY in versions prior
- to 6.7.2. Upgrade to MH 6.8.
+ WARNING: the '>' appears on the first line ONLY in versions prior to
+ 6.7.2. Upgrade to MH 6.8.
- See also MH book sections 7.8.4 (6.7.4), 7.8.5 (6.7.5), 10.4.1 (9.4.1),
- or the URLs:
+ See also MH book sections 7.8.4 (6.7.4), 7.8.5 (6.7.5), 10.4.1
+ (9.4.1), or the URLs:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/reprep-2.htm#ReaEdi
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/reprep-2.htm#Inc
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/verrep.htm#IncRep
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/reprep-2.html#ReaEdi
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/reprep-2.html#Inc
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/verrep.html#IncRep
------------------------------
@@ -2542,13 +2494,13 @@
- (See also "How can I save a copy of all messages I send?").
- For more info, see the man pages comp(1),
- repl(1), forw(1), dist(1) and mh-mail(5).
+ For more info, see the man pages comp(1), repl(1), forw(1),
+ dist(1) and mh-mail(5).
See also MH book sections 7.8.2 (6.7.2), 9.8 (8.6), or the URLs:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/reprep-2.htm#Sel
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/defmai.htm
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/reprep-2.html#Sel
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/defmai.html
From: Alec Wolman <wolman at crl.dec.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
@@ -2576,8 +2528,8 @@
1) The MH way.
- 1a) In your Mail directory, create files that
- include your signature into the format of the message.
+ 1a) In your Mail directory, create files that include your signature
+ into the format of the message.
~/Mail/components:
To:
@@ -2610,17 +2562,17 @@
.mh_profile line "postproc: postproc" to call it) that always
appends the .signature file before calling post to mail the
message. David J. Fiander <david at golem.uucp>, David A.
- Truesdell <truesdel at nas.nasa.gov> and Tom Wilmore
- <sastjw at unx.sas.com> have sample scripts to do these.
+ Truesdell <truesdel at nas.nasa.gov> and Tom Wilmore <sastjw at
+ unx.sas.com> have sample scripts to do these.
From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:00:00 -0800
- 1c) mysend, a sendproc script, processes a message after
- "What now? send". See "What references exist for MH" to see
- where the MH book scripts can be ftped from. The script is
- explained in MH book Section 7.1.4 (13.13), or the URL:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/senove.htm#ASAtDm
+ 1c) mysend, a sendproc script, processes a message after "What now?
+ send". See "What references exist for MH" to see where the MH
+ book scripts can be ftped from. The script is explained in MH
+ book Section 7.1.4 (13.13), or the URL:
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/senove.html#ASAtDm
2) Using your editor. If you use vi, you can use something like:
@@ -2661,9 +2613,9 @@
The way it works is to have .signature be a named pipe, so if you
don't have named pipes, just say 'n'.
- The sigrand program then feeds stuff down the pipe every time someone
- wants to read it. That way it works for more than just news, but
- for anything that wants to read your .signature, like a mailer.
+ The sigrand program then feeds stuff down the pipe every time
+ someone wants to read it. That way it works for more than just news,
+ but for anything that wants to read your .signature, like a mailer.
You have your choice of three kinds of signatures:
@@ -2711,13 +2663,14 @@
See also MH book sections 7.9.7 (6.8.7), 8.10 (7.9), or the URLs:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/forfor-2.htm#CreDig
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/burdig.htm
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/forfor-2.html#CreDig
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/burdig.html
From: Glenn Vanderburg <glv at utdallas.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
- There's another way, which is better if the recipient understands MIME.
+ There's another way, which is better if the recipient understands
+ MIME.
forw -mime messages +folder
@@ -2727,9 +2680,8 @@
This bundles each message in a MIME message/rfc822 part, and then
bundles the whole mess up in a multipart/digest part. You can still
add your own text at the beginning. The MH burst program can also
- understand these messages and split them apart with no problem.
- This works beautifully with MIME-capable mail readers, especially
- exmh.
+ understand these messages and split them apart with no problem. This
+ works beautifully with MIME-capable mail readers, especially exmh.
------------------------------
@@ -2755,9 +2707,9 @@
With either of the following solutions, you'll need to add an
Alternate-Mailboxes entry in your MH profile so that scan prints
- "To: recipient" rather than your faked address. For example, if
- your real address is address@hidden and you've added a From
- field of:
+ "To: recipient" rather than your faked address. For example, if your
+ real address is address@hidden and you've added a From field
+ of:
From: Joe Bob <address@hidden>
@@ -2777,8 +2729,8 @@
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800
Just put a "From:" header in your "components", "replcomps" and
- "forwcomps" files. MH will add a "Sender:" header with what it thinks
- is your real address.
+ "forwcomps" files. MH will add a "Sender:" header with what it
+ thinks is your real address.
------------------------------
@@ -2788,12 +2740,12 @@
I suggest the use of the Dcc: field (See "What is the Dcc header?"),
since the use of "Dcc:" solves the issue of having the same
- Message-Id. The warning about using Dcc: in general contexts
- doesn't apply to self-blind-carbon copies, and if "Dcc:" is used and
- you are automatically sorting messages into folders based on mailing
- lists, messages which you send will get refiled in the same way.
- Some may prefer all outgoing messages to be segregated; others
- (including myself) prefer not to segregate outgoing messages.
+ Message-Id. The warning about using Dcc: in general contexts doesn't
+ apply to self-blind-carbon copies, and if "Dcc:" is used and you are
+ automatically sorting messages into folders based on mailing lists,
+ messages which you send will get refiled in the same way. Some may
+ prefer all outgoing messages to be segregated; others (including
+ myself) prefer not to segregate outgoing messages.
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>, Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
@@ -2854,19 +2806,19 @@
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 05:30:43 -0800
- PGP keys can be obtained via mail from <pgp-public-keys at pgp.mit.edu>,
- and via the Web at http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pks-commands.html.
- Many PGP front-ends (e.g., mailcrypt) automatically obtain keys for
- you.
+ PGP keys can be obtained via mail from <pgp-public-keys at
+ pgp.mit.edu>, and via the Web at
+ http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pks-commands.html. Many PGP front-ends
+ (e.g., mailcrypt) automatically obtain keys for you.
See http://www.pgp.net/ for more info.
From: Vivek Khera <khera at kciLink.com>
Date: 19 Jun 1995 22:06:37 GMT
- A much more robust Perl script I wrote is appended below [Ed: Send a
- note to Vivek for the script]. It works its way through aliases,
- and avoids problems with full names in the headers.
+ A much more robust Perl script I wrote is appended below. [Send a
+ note to Vivek for the script. --Ed] It works its way through
+ aliases, and avoids problems with full names in the headers.
Here is my mhn profile entry to display the messages.
@@ -2888,8 +2840,8 @@
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
You could try looking at the URL http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/ and
- following the link from the cover page. Everything you need for
- PGP to work with MH is there (scripts and mhn entries).
+ following the link from the cover page. Everything you need for PGP
+ to work with MH is there (scripts and mhn entries).
From: mathew at mantis.co.uk
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
@@ -2925,18 +2877,18 @@
1. Compose a letter using comp.
- 2. When you get to a point where you want to include a MIME attachment, type
- the following to include a GIF image (note: the '#' must be in
- the first column):
+ 2. When you get to a point where you want to include a MIME
+ attachment, type the following to include a GIF image (note: the
+ '#' must be in the first column):
#image/gif [Pictures at an Exhibition] /usr/lib/pictures/exhibition.gif
3. Finish your letter, adding more text or attachments as needed.
- 4. Save your letter and exit the editor. At the Whatnow prompt
- type "edit mhn". mhn will automatically format your letter with
- the MIME attachments leaving the original letter in ,##,orig
- where ## is the letter number.
+ 4. Save your letter and exit the editor. At the Whatnow prompt type
+ "edit mhn". mhn will automatically format your letter with the
+ MIME attachments leaving the original letter in ,##,orig where ##
+ is the letter number.
5. Type "send" at the Whatnow prompt, and poof, you have just sent
MIME mail. I strongly recommend you practice sending yourself
@@ -2947,7 +2899,7 @@
for a list of allowed media types in addition to image/gif, and
Chapter 3 in the MH book or the URL:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/overall/tocs/intmime.htm
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/overall/tocs/intmime.html
------------------------------
@@ -2964,8 +2916,8 @@
The other two ways allow you to manage the list privately, but the
recipients cannot send to the list (unless you set something up with
- your deliver or procmail script). One is with a group list. It
- looks like this:
+ your deliver or procmail script). One is with a group list. It looks
+ like this:
To: All-members: member1, member2, member3, ..., membern;
@@ -3023,20 +2975,20 @@
------------------------------
-Subject: !05.15 How can I make sense of the replcomps file?
+Subject: 05.15 How can I make sense of the replcomps file?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:27:14 -0800
The best thing to do is curl up with the mh-format(5) man page, or
Section 11.2 of the MH book, or the URL:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/mhstr.htm
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/mhstr.html
These will explain the default replcomps file, included here. Don't
start with the first four lines--the latter group of lines are much
easier to understand.
- %; $Header: /cvsroot/nmh/nmh/docs/FAQ,v 1.6 2006/03/10 09:00:20 wohler Exp
$
+ %; $Header: /cvsroot/nmh/nmh/docs/FAQ,v 1.7 2007/09/24 07:02:03 wohler Exp
$
%;
%; These next lines slurp in lots of addresses for To: and cc:.
%; Use with repl -query or else you may get flooded with addresses!
@@ -3104,9 +3056,9 @@
Date: 22 Aug 1995 10:42:07 +0200
The idea behind the solution is that I need mhn to store the
- contents of the mail in the native iso8859-1 format somewhere. I
- did this by creating a custom editor that is invoked when I reply to
- a message. This editor extracts the body of the message (sorry, no
+ contents of the mail in the native iso8859-1 format somewhere. I did
+ this by creating a custom editor that is invoked when I reply to a
+ message. This editor extracts the body of the message (sorry, no
multipart stuff), indents it with '> ', appends it to the draft
message and invokes the ordinary editor on it. Here are the details:
@@ -3165,20 +3117,21 @@
-e 's/^\([>|]\)\(.*\)$/>\1\2/' \
-e 's/^\([^>|].*\)$/> \1/'
- This tells mhn to pipe the message to stdout, where the sed commands will
- do the reformatting/quoting. (Note: the first pair of square brackets
- contains a space and a tab.)
+ This tells mhn to pipe the message to stdout, where the sed commands
+ will do the reformatting/quoting. (Note: the first pair of square
+ brackets contains a space and a tab.)
So, when I do a `isorepl' to a message, `repl' will create the draft
- message with the proper headers (based on the `isoreplcomps' format file),
- fire off its first editor, `isoextract', with the name of the draft file as
- its parameter. `isoextract' then invokes mhn in a suitable environment,
- tells it that it is to use the file $editalt as its source, and orders it
- to store the contents. The store-text rule in the custom MHN-file tells it
- to just pipe the message (in native iso8859-1 form) through a small set of
- sed commands, and `isoextract' uses the normal shell construct to append
- the result to the draft file. Then, if there's defined a `isoextract-next'
- entry in the .mh_profile, isoextract exec's this editor.
+ message with the proper headers (based on the `isoreplcomps' format
+ file), fire off its first editor, `isoextract', with the name of the
+ draft file as its parameter. `isoextract' then invokes mhn in a
+ suitable environment, tells it that it is to use the file $editalt
+ as its source, and orders it to store the contents. The store-text
+ rule in the custom MHN-file tells it to just pipe the message (in
+ native iso8859-1 form) through a small set of sed commands, and
+ `isoextract' uses the normal shell construct to append the result to
+ the draft file. Then, if there's defined a `isoextract-next' entry
+ in the .mh_profile, isoextract exec's this editor.
------------------------------
@@ -3188,9 +3141,9 @@
Indeed, you can.
- You just need to remember the way MH expands aliases. In
- particular, the right hand sides are only expanded by the aliases
- below them in your aliases file. So, if you put in:
+ You just need to remember the way MH expands aliases. In particular,
+ the right hand sides are only expanded by the aliases below them in
+ your aliases file. So, if you put in:
dead-men: presidents, authors
presidents: washington, lincoln, jefferson, roosevelt
@@ -3204,8 +3157,8 @@
washington, lincoln, jefferson, roosevelt, thoreau, irving, london
- If you had the dead-men line after the presidents and authors aliases, the
- response would be:
+ If you had the dead-men line after the presidents and authors
+ aliases, the response would be:
presidents, authors
@@ -3252,7 +3205,7 @@
Obtain forwedit.
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/jpeek/forwedit
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/examples/mh/bin/forwedit
------------------------------
@@ -3306,7 +3259,7 @@
------------------------------
-Subject: +05.26 How do I fix a bogus In-Reply-To or missing References field?
+Subject: 05.26 How do I fix a bogus In-Reply-To or missing References field?
From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 21:42:21 -0800
@@ -3337,8 +3290,8 @@
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
If your users are using an AT&T version of "vi", it's exiting with
- non-zero status (supposedly a count of the "errors" during the edit).
- Move "vi" to "broken_vi" and put it its place :
+ non-zero status (supposedly a count of the "errors" during the
+ edit). Move "vi" to "broken_vi" and put it its place :
#! /bin/sh
/usr/ucb/broken_vi "$@"
@@ -3346,8 +3299,7 @@
Alternatively, compile MH with the ATTVIBUG option.
- Then complain to your vendor that "vi" is broken, and they should
- fix it.
+ Then complain to your vendor that "vi" is broken, and they shouldfix it.
------------------------------
@@ -3380,10 +3332,10 @@
What now? e
- your speller will run. For more info, see the mh-profile(5) man
- page or section 7.2.1 (6.2.1) of the MH book, or the URL:
+ your speller will run. For more info, see the mh-profile(5) man page
+ or section 7.2.1 (6.2.1) of the MH book, or the URL:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/chaedi.htm#Edi
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/chaedi.html#Edi
------------------------------
@@ -3441,12 +3393,13 @@
From: Larry Daffner <ldaffner at convex.com>
Date: 3 Mar 1996 14:39:54 -0600
- 5. Your load average is so high that sendmail is refusing connections.
+ 5. Your load average is so high that sendmail is refusing
+ connections.
Solution: Change your configuration from "mta: sendmail/smtp" to
"mta: sendmail" so that a sendmail processes is spawned to
- deliver the message. This is a double-edged sword since the
- extra process only makes the load worse.
+ deliver the message. This is a double-edged sword since the extra
+ process only makes the load worse.
From: Corbin Covault <cec8 at po.cwru.edu>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 02:13:42 -0400
@@ -3497,7 +3450,8 @@
o Use a hostname (other than the local host) instead of localhost in
the "servers" entry of the $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file.
- o Recompile MH with sendmail instead of sendmail/smtp (not very elegant).
+ o Recompile MH with sendmail instead of sendmail/smtp (not very
+ elegant).
A better fix would be to define your tcp interface.
@@ -3510,8 +3464,8 @@
# route 127.0.0.1
- If all is well, "ifconfig lo" (or lo0), will show something like this
- (on my Linux system):
+ If all is well, "ifconfig lo" (or lo0), will show something like
+ this (on my Linux system):
lo Link encap Local Loopback
inet addr 127.0.0.1 Bcast 127.255.255.255 Mask 255.0.0.0
@@ -3539,16 +3493,16 @@
This might not do it though. David Youatt <dpy at sgi.com> says that
his network was happy but he still had the problem until he upgraded
- his system and got the latest revision of sendmail as well. He
- says: "Turns out that that the problem I was having seems to be
- caused (at least partly, maybe entirely) by the version of sendmail
- that is shipped with IRIX 5.2 (sendmail 5.65, I think). The version
- shipped w/IRIX 5.3 (in beta) is sendmail 8.6.9 and works fine."
+ his system and got the latest revision of sendmail as well. He says:
+ "Turns out that that the problem I was having seems to be caused (at
+ least partly, maybe entirely) by the version of sendmail that is
+ shipped with IRIX 5.2 (sendmail 5.65, I think). The version shipped
+ w/IRIX 5.3 (in beta) is sendmail 8.6.9 and works fine."
I'm not entirely happy with this section, so please give me some
- feedback. If you have this problem, please send me
- <wohler at newt.com> a brief description so I'll know which problems
- and solutions seem to be the most prevalent.
+ feedback. If you have this problem, please send me <wohler at
+ newt.com> a brief description so I'll know which problems and
+ solutions seem to be the most prevalent.
------------------------------
@@ -3576,10 +3530,9 @@
From: Ginko <gianluca at noroboter.rotoni.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:18:14 +0000 (UTC)
- I have sendmail under control of tcpwrapper started by inetd
- and didn't want to take it away, the very simple fix to this
- problem was to allow the localhost on /etc/hosts.allow on the
- sendmail entry.
+ I have sendmail under control of tcpwrapper started by inetd and
+ didn't want to take it away, the very simple fix to this problem was
+ to allow the localhost on /etc/hosts.allow on the sendmail entry.
From: Stefan Huebner <sh at muc.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 20:06:49 +0200
@@ -3643,8 +3596,9 @@
X-Authentication-Warning: screamer.rtp.ericsson.se: Host
rcur7.rtp.ericsson.se didn't use HELO protocol
- Easy possibilities are: apply the patch to MH that comes with Sendmail
- 8.X.X and makes it use HELO, or comment out the line that says
+ Easy possibilities are: apply the patch to MH that comes with
+ Sendmail 8.X.X and makes it use HELO, or comment out the line that
+ says
Opauthwarnings
@@ -3720,7 +3674,7 @@
I am still using procmail and probably will do so indefinitely since
it is powerful, there are many spam filters written in it, and it
- coexists with MH and gnus so well.
+ coexists with MH and Gnus so well.
My recommendation is to use the one that is installed on your system
or get procmail. Here are the URLs for the filters mentioned in this
@@ -3752,10 +3706,9 @@
expect from a filter: mailing lists sorting, forwarding to MTA or to
inews, pre-processing of message before saving into folder, vacation
mode, etc. It was initially written as an Elm-filter replacement,
- but has now enough power to also supplant MMDF's
- .maildelivery. There is also a support for @SH mail hooks, which
- allows you to automatically distribute patches or software via
- command mails.
+ but has now enough power to also supplant MMDF's .maildelivery.
+ There is also a support for @SH mail hooks, which allows you to
+ automatically distribute patches or software via command mails.
The mailagent was designed to make mail filtering as easy as it can
be. It is highly configurable and fairly complete. Rules are
@@ -3809,7 +3762,7 @@
See also chapter 12 (11) in the MH book, or the URL:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/tocs/prmaau.htm
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/tocs/prmaau.html
Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent.
(See "What mail filters are available?")
@@ -3840,7 +3793,7 @@
See also MH book section 12.11 (11.11), or the URL:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/debugti.htm
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/debugti.html
------------------------------
@@ -3878,8 +3831,8 @@
Date: 07 Jul 1997 03:31:42 -0400
nmh (new MH) has an additional command (flist) that will tell you
- which folders have unseen messages. I can't imagine using MH
- without it.
+ which folders have unseen messages. I can't imagine using MH without
+ it.
From: crow at tivoli.com (David L. Crow)
Date: 7 Jul 97 09:36:32 GMT
@@ -3983,10 +3936,10 @@
From: Andrew Wason <aw at bae.bellcore.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
- As of R5, xmh has a new action proc called XmhShellCommand. A
- string parameter will be executed as a shell command with the
- currently selected messages as parameters (or the current message if
- there are no selected messages).
+ As of R5, xmh has a new action proc called XmhShellCommand. A string
+ parameter will be executed as a shell command with the currently
+ selected messages as parameters (or the current message if there are
+ no selected messages).
Using this new action, a couple of shell scripts, a window version
of emacs (e.g. xemacs) and some elisp code, xmh can use emacs as its
@@ -4011,13 +3964,13 @@
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
The R5 version of xmh does *not* handle nested sub-folders. If you
- create a folder as 'grab/some/bandwidth', xmh displays this
- folder name for the remainder of the session where it was created,
- BUT if you later re-run xmh, the folder is no longer visible to xmh.
+ create a folder as 'grab/some/bandwidth', xmh displays this folder
+ name for the remainder of the session where it was created, BUT if
+ you later re-run xmh, the folder is no longer visible to xmh.
See also MH book section 15.6.2 (15.6.2), or the URL:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/xmh/orgfol.htm#FolaSub
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/xmh/orgfol.html#FolaSub
------------------------------
@@ -4037,14 +3990,14 @@
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
Using this means that you can chose to insert the original by use of
- the "Insert" button in the Draft message pane. See "How do I
- include messages in repl with or without ">"?" to find examples of
+ the "Insert" button in the Draft message pane. See "How do I include
+ messages in repl with or without ">"?" to find examples of
repl.filter.
See also MH book sections 15.1.4 (15.1.4), 16.3.3 (16.3.3), or the URLs:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/xmh/senmai.htm#MorRep
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/xmh/resfun.htm#Rep
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/xmh/senmai.html#MorRep
+ http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/xmh/resfun.html#Rep
------------------------------
@@ -4479,7 +4432,7 @@
From: David Paschich <dpassage at bigbook.com>
Date: 23 Apr 96 21:27:12 GMT
-# @(#)$Id: FAQ,v 1.6 2006/03/10 09:00:20 wohler Exp $
+# @(#)$Id: FAQ,v 1.7 2007/09/24 07:02:03 wohler Exp $
# a 4.2BSD VAX system running SendMail
bin /usr/local/bin/mh
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