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- This is a living list of frequently asked questions on the mailer
- user interface, Mail Handler, or MH. The point of this is to
- circulate existing information, and avoid rehashing old answers.
- 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.
-
- Please do not post an answer when someone posts a frequently asked
- question; rather, email the relevant section of the FAQ to eliminate
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-
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- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Subject: Table of Contents
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 11:29:16 -0800
-
- Legend: + new, - deleted, ! changed
- __________________
-
- 01.00 Introduction
-
- 01.01 Why should I use MH?
- 01.02 What is the current version/status of MH?
- 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?
- 01.07 How should I report bugs?
- 01.08 How can I convert from my mailer to MH?
- _________________
-
- 02.00 Building MH
-
- 02.01 What machines does MH run on?
- 02.02 How do I build MH?
- 02.03 What options should I use?
- 02.04 What do I need to do to use POP?
- 02.05 Does MH support IMAP?
- 02.06 Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc and not slocal?
- 02.07 How can I build MH on Solaris 2?
- 02.08 How can I build MH on Linux?
- 02.09 How can I build MH on IRIX?
- 02.10 How can I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?
- 02.11 How do I build MH on HP-UX?
- 02.12 Can I prevent adding the local hostname to addresses behind firewalls?
- 02.13 Is there a patch to fix this or that?
- 02.14 How can I build MH on OS/2?
- 02.15 Do any POP/IMAP servers handle MH format?
- ________________________
-
- 03.00 Scanning & Reading
-
- 03.01 What do I do if scan shows the wrong date?
- 03.02 How would one go about reading Usenet with MH?
- 03.03 How can I search through multiple folders?
- 03.04 Why don't MH format commands such as %(friendly) work?
- 03.05 Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?
- 03.06 Can I get show not to run "less" so much on MIME messages?
- 03.07 Why do I get "mhn: don't know how to display content"?
- 03.08 How can I automatically delete MH backup files?
- 03.09 Fixing "cannot fopen and lock /var/spool/mail/(user)".
- 03.10 Can I read my mail with a Web browser?
- 03.11 How can I run inc automatically with POP?
- 03.12 Why does inc hang (on Sun)?
- 03.12 How can I get POP to work?
- 03.13 How do I persuade mhshow (mhn) not to bring up a new window?
- 03.14 How do I turn off of all the mhshow (mhn) prompts?
- 03.15 Why is inc splitting messages improperly?
- 03.16 Can MH thread messages?
- 03.17 How can I avoid reading the HTML version of the message?
- 03.18 How do I view or save attachments?
- 03.19 How do I view HTML attachments with Netscape?
- ____________
-
- 04.00 Filing
-
- 04.01 Can I append MH messages to a Unix mailbox format file?
- 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?
- 04.06 How can I remove duplicate messages?
- 04.07 How can I remove holes in numbering?
- __________________________
-
- 05.00 Composing & Replying
-
- 05.01 Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one?
- 05.02 How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"?
- 05.03 How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself?
- 05.04 How can I include my signature?
- 05.05 How do I call my editor with arguments?
- 05.06 How can I digestify messages in a folder for mail to another user?
- 05.07 How can I change my return address?
- 05.08 How can I change my From header?
- 05.09 How can I save a copy of all messages I send?
- 05.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified?
- 05.11 Can I post secure/encryped mail?
- 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?
- 05.16 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?
- 05.19 How do I send blind carbon copies?
- 05.20 When I forward a message, can I use its Subject?
- 05.21 Why is the timezone field in my 'Date:' field wrong?
- 05.22 Can I automate the comp -editor mhn process?
- 05.23 How can I remove those "=20" characters when forwarding?
- 05.24 Can I use mh-format substitution with forw?
- _____________
-
- 06.00 Posting
-
- 06.01 What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed".
- 06.02 Can I run my message through a program (e.g., ispell) before sending?
- 06.03 What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part".
- 06.04 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available"
- 06.05 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender
- already specified"
- 06.06 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [BHST] no socket opened"
- 06.07 How do I fix the "X-Authentication-Warning" header?
- 06.08 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [RPLY] 503 Need MAIL
- before RCPT"
- 06.09 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature
- end-of-file on socket"
- 06.10 Fixing "Sender didn't use the HELO protocol"
- 06.11 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 553 Local
- configuration error, hostname not recognized as local
- __________________
-
- 07.00 Mail Filters
-
- 07.01 What mail filters are available?
- 07.02 Why slocal writes messages to system mailbox that from(1) can't read.
- 07.03 Where can I read about slocal and the format of .maildelivery?
- 07.04 How do I debug my .maildelivery file?
- 07.05 Why isn't slocal working?
- 07.06 Are there any good biff applications for MH?
- __________
-
- 08.00 mh-e
-
- 08.01 I have a question about mh-e
- _________
-
- 09.00 Xmh
-
- 09.01 How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor?
- 09.02 Does xmh support subfolders?
- 09.03 How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh?
- ________
-
- Appendix
-
- Glossary & Acknowledgments
- Switching xmh's editor
- babyl2mh.pl
- inco - babyl to MH converter
- +t2h - add hyperlinks to message viewed
- srvrsmtp.c patch
- IRIX config file
- HP-UX 10.20 config file
- Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)
- Removing duplicate messages (Perl)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Viewing This Article
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:44:19 -0800
-
- To skip to a particular question with Subject or number xx, use
- "/^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.
-
- This article is in digest format. nn may have already broken this
- message into separate articles; if not, then type "G %". In rn, use
- ^G to skip sections.
-
- This article is treated as an outline when edited by GNU Emacs. Run
- "M-x describe-mode" to see available outline-mode commands. Useful
- commands are "M-x hide-body", "C-c C-s" (show-subtree) and "M-x
- show-all"
-
- Check out the Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive (see "What references
- exist for nn?"). Files available by ftp, man pages, and other Web
- pages, as well as cross-references like the one in this paragraph
- are just a click away.
-
- A "Date" field whose time is 00:00:00 is approximate. The month and
- year in these fields represent the time they were added to the FAQ,
- rather than when they were contributed by the author, as is the case
- 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.
-
- References to $MHLIB refer to the directory that contains MH support
- files and routines. This directory is usually /usr/lib/mh or
- /usr/local/lib/mh (or /usr/local/nmh/lib or /etc/nmh for nmh). Do
- not use $MHLIB literally; use the real, absolute path to your MH
- library directory.
-
- There are slight differences between the original MH and nmh. In the
- text, the nmh command or filename is preferred, and the MH
- equivalent is placed in parenthesis. For example, the MH
- configuration is in $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor); mhshow (mhn -show)
- is used to view attachments.
-
- Note that due to bottom feeding email address harvesting spam scum,
- mailto links have been removed and @s in addresses have been
- replaced by "at."
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 01.00 ***** Introduction *****
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 01.01 Why should I use MH?
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- The MH message handling system is a set of electronic mail programs
- in the public domain. If your computer runs Unix, it can probably
- 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).
-
- 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.
-
- 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
- a monolithic mail agent, you can use MH commands in Unix shell
- scripts, or call them from programs in high-level languages like C.
-
- Unlike most mail agents, MH keeps each message in a separate file.
- The filename is the message number. To rearrange the messages, MH
- just changes the filenames. MH can use standard Unix file system
- operations such as removing, copying and linking messages. The
- message files are grouped into one or more folders, which are
- actually Unix directories.
-
- MH is free, powerful, flexible--and the basics are easy to learn.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 01.02 What is the current version/status of MH.
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:49:18 -0800
-
- The current official version of MH is 6.8.3, although a beta of
- 6.8.4 is available.
-
- This version includes MIME, a multi-media MH package that implements
- the new IETF work on Multi-media 822 (MIME). This allows you to
- include things like audio, graphics, and the like, in your mail
- messages. --Marshall Rose <mrose at dbc.mtview.ca.us>
-
- MH now works with Kerberos as well.
-
- In addition, a new program called mhparam extracts arguments from
- .mh_profile which is useful in shell scripts.
-
- Please see the file CHANGES in the distribution for more details.
-
- Due to the languishing state of MH, Richard Coleman
- <coleman at math.gatech.edu> has created another version of MH called
- nmh (currently version 1.0.4). He uses GNU autoconf to ease
- installation considerably and has fixed several bugs and
- inconsistencies. See http://www.mhost.com/nmh/ and
- http://nmh.sourceforge.net/.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 01.03 Where can I get MH?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 13:07:47 -0800
-
- 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 1.1 . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.8.4
- DEC Ultrix 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.5
- DEC Ultrix 4.2A.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7.1
- DEC OSF/1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.7
- Evans and Sutherland ES/OS 2.3 . . . . . MH 6.6
- FreeBSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.8.4
- IBM PS/2 AIX 1.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.4
- IBM RISC System/6000 AIX 3.x and 4.x . . MH 6.6
- MIPS RISC/OS 4.52 . . . . . . . . . . . . MH 6.6
- Red Hat Linux (3.0.3, 4.0 and 4.1) . . . MH 6.8.3
- 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>
-
- 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.
-
- via anonymous ftp:
- ftp://ftp.mhost.com/pub/nmh/nmh.tar.gz 667kB
- 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
-
- via mail:
- Send a note to either <mail-server at NL.net> or
- <archive-server at germany.eu.net> with a body containing the
- following:
-
- send mail/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z
-
- UK users may be able to use <ftpmail at doc.ic.ac.uk>. Send a
- note whose body contains "help" to this address.
-
- Send a note to <ftpmail at ftpmail.ramona.vix.com> whose body
- contains "help" on a line by itself get information on getting ftp
- sources by mail.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 01.04 What references exist for MH?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:51:40 -0800
-
- The Web:
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/
- http://www.mhost.com/nmh/
- http://nmh.sourceforge.net/
- http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/
-
- Books:
- MH & xmh: E-mail for Users & Programmers. Third edition. Jerry
- Peek, with Bill Wohler and Brent Welch.
- ISBN 1-56592-093-7. 738 pages.
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
- 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
-
- There is another book that contains a number of examples of
- advanced mail handing using MH as the example message handler.
- It's also quite a good reference on email in general.
-
- The Internet Message. Marshall T. Rose
- ISBN 0-13-092941-7. 396 pages.
- P T R Prentice Hall
-
- Papers:
- MHN Tutorial by Jerry Sweet
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.ps.Z 141k
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhn-tutorial.tex.Z 48k
-
- Usenet:
- comp.mail.mh (gatewayed to MH-users)
-
- Mailing lists:
- General questions/discussion: <MH-users at ics.uci.edu>
- (gatewayed to comp.mail.mh).
- MH developers and maintainers: <MH-workers at ics.uci.edu>.
- Please use <MH-users-request at ics.uci.edu> and
- <MH-workers-request at ics.uci.edu> to request an addition or
- deletion.
-
- The mailing list for nmh is <nmh-workers at mhost.com>.
- Please use <nmh-workers-request at mhost.com> for
- subscription.
-
- 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 archive, uncompressed:
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/mh-users/mh-users.mbox
-
- 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/
-
- This document:
- http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/mh-faq/part1/preamble.html
- http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/mail/mh-faq/part1.html
-
- mh-e documentation:
- GNU Emacs 19.29 comes with a version of mh-e that now includes
- online (Texinfo) documentation. Try "C-h i m mh-e RET". It is
- also available online at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh-e/.
- See also "What other MH software is available?" to see where you
- can get the latest version of mh-e which includes the
- documentation sources.
-
- exmh:
- 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.
-
- Signature and Finger FAQ:
- http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/signature-faq/
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 01.05 What other MH software is available?
- From: Stephen Gildea <gildea at stop.mail-abuse.org>, Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 13:39:01 -0800
-
- Mh-e is the GNU Emacs front end for MH. It offers all the
- functionality of MH, the visual orientation and simplicity of use of
- xmh, and full integration with Emacs, including thorough
- configurability. The command set is similar to that of rmail (the
- Emacs front end for BSD mail) and BSD mail itself. online help is
- available.
-
- Mh-e allows one to read and process mail very quickly: commands are
- single characters and completion and defaults are available for file
- and folder names. During a reply, the original message is displayed
- simultaneously in another window for easy reference where a mh-e
- command can quickly incorporate and format this text into your
- reply.
-
- With mh-e you compose outgoing messages in Emacs. This is a big plus
- for Emacs users, but it has been known for non-Emacs users to be
- able use mh-e after only learning the most basic cursor motion
- commands. Mh-e is easily configured via the Emacs edit-options menu,
- and can be configured to fit the needs of even the most demanding
- user.
-
- The GNU Emacs distribution includes mh-e.
-
- mh-e is maintained at SourceForge:
-
- http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/
-
- From: Brent Welch <welch at acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:42:15 -0800
-
- EXMH is a user interface for the MH mail system written in TCL/TK.
-
- Exmh has MIME support, color feedback in the scan listing, a folder
- display with one label per folder, clever scan caching, facesaver
- bitmap display; background inc, various inc styles, searching over
- folder listing and message body, a dialog-box interface to MH pick,
- a simple built-in emacs-like editor, interfaces to other editors,
- user preferences, user hacking support. For more info or to obtain
- exmh, see:
-
- http://exmh.sourceforge.net/
-
- From: "Eric D. Friedman" <friedman at hydra.acs.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:52:44 -0800
-
- Mhtake is a perl script that lets you add people to your mail
- aliases file by typing mhtake [message #].
-
- http://orion.oac.uci.edu/~friedman/mhtake.txt
-
- From: Steinar Bang <sb at metis.no>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:51:08 +0100
-
- Mew (an Emacs interface to MH that has MIME and PGP capabilities) is
- found at:
-
- ftp://ftp.aist-nara.ac.jp/pub/elisp/Mew/mew-current.tar.gz
-
- From: James Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Vmh is designed for people using the bulletin-board features of MH,
- where mail is stored in packed (single-file) folders. As a result,
- use of this program cannot be mixed with the use of normal MH
- commands. Vmh is a part of the official MH distribution.
-
- From: James Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Xmh is a X11 mouse-based MH browsing tool. It is very powerful and
- feature-filled and thus comes with a moderate learning curve. Its
- dependence on the X11 environment makes it very reconfigurable, but
- only by people well-versed in X applications programming. Its
- message reply built-in-editor interface is not always popular among
- those used to having MH bring up the editor of their choice.
-
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- xmh is part of the standard X Window System distribution from the X
- Consortium. Ultrix also ships dxmail which is similar.
-
- ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/xmh.shar.Z 162k
-
- From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <hta at boheme.er.sintef.no>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Here's a version of xmh that includes MIME.
-
- ftp://aun.uninett.no/pub/mail/mixmh/mixmh-0.3.tar.Z 232k
-
- From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb at thumper.bellcore.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:04:51 -0800
-
- Metamail is a package that can be used to convert virtually ANY
- mail-reading program on Unix into a multi-media mail-reading
- program. It is an extremely generic implementation of MIME
- (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), the proposed standard for
- multi-media mail formats on the Internet. The implementation is
- extremely flexible and extensible, using a "mailcap" file mechanism
- for adding support for new data formats when sent through the mail.
- At a heterogeneous site where many mail readers are in use, the
- mailcap mechanism can be used to extend them all to support new
- types of multi-media mail by a single addition to a mailcap file.
-
- The metamail distribution comes complete with a small patch for each
- of over a dozen popular mail reading programs, including Berkeley
- mail, mh, Elm, Xmh, Xmail, Mailtool, Emacs Rmail, Emacs VM, Andrew,
- and others. Note that the MH patches are now integrated into MH 6.8.
-
- ftp://ftp.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z
-
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist at perl.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:55:24 -0800
-
- Plum is a highly configurable and extensible screen-oriented
- front-end for processing MH mail on ASCII terminals. Unlike mh-e,
- the extension language used in plum is perl, not LISP. Plum offers
- many of the advantages of xmh, but lacks several of xmh's
- disadvantages. The look&feel derives more from vi than from emacs.
- Key bindings and functions may be changed on the fly to suit the
- user's preference. It offers filename and word completion on folder,
- variables, and command names.
-
- Until it is included in the standard distribution (under
- miscellany), you can fiqnd a copy on:
-
- http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/plum.gz 29k
-
- or mail requests to Tom
-
- From: Jerry Sweet <jsweet at irvine.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Mhunify is a set of perl scripts and templates that provides
- shell-level MH functionality with USENET news. Since MH supports
- MIME, MIME-format news articles just work. I've found that being
- able to handle news in the same way that I handle email is very
- useful, although there are some tradeoffs.
-
- Mhunify also treats MH folders just like news groups. If you
- subscribe to several mailing lists, and your email is automatically
- delivered to separate folders, say, via procmail or via MMDF's
- .maildelivery, the mhunify package lets you progress automatically
- through your folders just as you would news groups.
-
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/multimedia/mhunify.shar.gz
-
- From: Dale Carstensen <dlc at c3file.c3.lanl.gov>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- olmh is a demo for OLIT (Open Look Interface Toolkit, the Open Look
- wrapper to Xt) in Sun's Open Windows 3 that does handle 3rd and
- subsequent levels of nesting of folders.
-
- Obtain the Open Windows 3 distribution CD/ROM from Sun (SPARC only).
- To do this, call 1-800-USA-4SUN and send tone "2" for telemarketing
- after it answers. The 4.1.2 CD/ROM may also have Open Windows 3. The
- list price for the 4.1.2 CD/ROM is $200.
-
- From: James Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Vmail is a curses-based, vi-like message browser which calls on MH
- programs to manipulate mail. It can be used on almost any terminal.
- It organizes mail folders into index pages, from which a message can
- be selected to be shown, replied-to, forwarded, refiled, deleted,
- and so on. The vi-like interface and command keystrokes are
- comfortable to less-experienced Unix users, and it is a small,
- compact program, unlike the mh-e Emacs package.
-
- This version of vmail has been bugfixed and enhanced from the
- original vmail published on the net in 1987 by J. Zobel.
-
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.unix/volume12/vmail/part0*.Z 46k
- ftp://ftp.ucs.ubc.ca/pub/mh/vmail.[1-3]of3.Z 58k
-
- Or mail requests to James.
-
- From: James Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- vmailtool may be for you if you have a Sun workstation. It is a
- button gadget panel for the above-mentioned vmail program. It brings
- vmail into the windows era where people no longer need to memorize
- specific command keystrokes. It also provides a mail icon with the
- flag that pops up when new mail arrives. Again, this is a compact,
- simple tool, unlike the powerful xmh program. Still, it's a welcome
- alternative for many people who are running SunView or OpenWindows.
-
- ftp://ftp.ucs.ubc.ca/pub/mh/vmailtool.Z 18k
-
- or mail requests to James.
-
- MMH, My Mail Handler, is a Motif interface for reading and sending
- mail. It uses the MH commands to actually handle sending a receiving
- messages. It does not support all the capabilities of MH, but offers
- a large enough subset to handle the majority of users. Its intended
- user is someone between "bumbling email novice" and "sophisticated
- user". Hooks are provided to allow the user to customize and add new
- commands.
-
- ftp://ftp.eos.ncsu.edu/pub/bill/bill.tar.Z 120k
-
- From: Andrew Waugh <ajw at mel.dit.csiro.au>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- X.500 lookups: If a name is enclosed in square brackets, when
- entering a destination address:
-
- To: [Greg Wickham,CSIRO]
-
- a search will be made in the X.500 Directory for the individual's
- entry. If an address exists then it will be extracted and placed
- into the headers. Mail requests for the software to the author.
-
- 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.
-
- ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/sysadmin/utilities/queuemh.tar.Z 98k
-
- From: <info at rootgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Qmh is an MH-based group mail management tool. Written entirely in
- perl, Qmh combines the best aspects of MH with group mail heuristics
- and delivers a sensible package for all levels of Unix users. A
- limitless number of individual queues and associated groups of
- permitted users can be established.
-
- Specific functionality includes the following modes of operation;
- checking header dates and sending reminder/deadline mail, editing
- existing messages, help screens, creating new messages from scratch
- or exiting messages, resolving messages, scanning queue folders, and
- annotating with status both by editing and sending mail.
-
- Qmh is a single generic program in and of itself from which all
- modes of operation are invoked. Additionally, each separate queue
- may be accessed via a link to the single program. All system
- configuration is maintained in a single file that is read upon each
- invocation of Qmh. Formatting and template files are provided in the
- system library, although individual users can override the defaults
- simply by creating equivalent files in their own MH mail directory.
-
- Qmh provides a powerful database-like functionality by allowing
- limitless per-queue X-Qmh-<$value> headers to be included in
- messages. These "fields" then form the context of the queue messages
- and provide a user-defined, but yet structured environment for
- queries, reporting, and random information.
-
- Qmh is designed to provide a complete solution for SA groups, help
- desks, support organizations, or wherever two or more individuals
- are trying to manage multiple mail requests.
-
- Qmh is also compatible with versions of xmh that provide user-level
- command buttons. Provided in the Qmh package is a ~/.Xdefaults
- template file that's setup to harness the power of Qmh.
-
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>, Shannon Yeh <yeh at netix.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:23:21 -0800
-
- MacMH and PC/MH:
- These were available only for non-commercial degree-granting
- institutions from:
-
- Networking & Communication Systems
- 115 Pine Hall
- Stanford University
- Stanford, CA 94305-4122
- Phone: +1 415-723-3909
-
- See also:
- ftp://netix.com/pub/pc-mh-info/*
-
- For more PC/MH info, contact:
-
- Netix Communications, Inc.
- 15375 Barranca Parkway
- Building G, Suite 107
- Irvine, CA 92718
- Phone: +1 714-727-9532
- 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.
-
- [This information appears to be out of date. Please send me
- pointers to valid information. Potential sites include
- jessica.stanford.edu.]
-
- Two other potential methods to run MH under Windows: Run Unix
- under Windows with VMware (http://www.vmware.com/) or try to
- compile nmh with the Cygwin tools (http://www.cygwin.com/).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 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
-
- First, check out the documents available on http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/.
-
- 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?").
-
- 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.
-
- 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?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- Mail them to <Bug-MH at ics.uci.edu> and be sure to include the
- output of the -help option as well as what hardware and operating
- system you are using.
-
- Bugs to nmh should be reported to <nmh-bugs at mhost.com>.
-
- Bugs in mh-e should be reported at:
-
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=113357&group_id=13357&func=browse
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 01.08 How can I convert from my mailer to MH?
- From: Mike Sutton <mws115 at llcoolj.dayton.saic.com>
- Date: 7 Jul 1995 10:03:50 GMT
-
- The unrmail function will convert rmail format to mbox format.
-
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- 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:
-
- % cd
- % cp mbox mbox.backup
- % inc -file mbox
-
- If you see the usual "Incorporating new mail into inbox..." message
- and a scan listing, the messages probably were converted. Read some
- or all of them (with the 'show' command) and be sure. The 'inc'
- won't remove your mbox unless you use '-truncate'.
-
- 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:
-
- for arg in `cat flist`; do
- echo "converting $arg"
- inc +"$arg" -file "$arg" -silent
- done
-
- Section D.4 of the MH book's second edition lists two scripts to
- convert mail files to MH folders: babyl2mh to convert from rmail's
- BABYL format; vmsmail2mh to convert from VMS's mail (see "What
- references exist for MH") to see where the book's examples can be
- ftped from). These scripts aren't in the third edition but are in
- its archive file.
-
- From: Vivek Khera <khera at cs.duke.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- I rewrote the above script in Perl since the original script doesn't
- work for some people (see "babyl2mh.pl" below).
-
- 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.
-
- Another alternative is to replace this line with "inc -file $tmpmbox
- $folder && > $input", so that the RMAIL is only zeroed if inc
- successfully incorporated the mail. Finally one could add a switch
- -z, so that the RMAIL file is only zeroed if the switch is given.
- (See "Appendix inco".)
-
- Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Use the following to convert a BABYL format file to Unix mail
- format.
-
- ftp://inf.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/gnu/emacs_extras/rmailtovm.el.Z
- 6k
-
- See also MH book second edition (Appendix D).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.00 ***** Building MH *****
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.01 What machines does MH run on?
- From: Bill Goffe <goffe at oswego.edu>
- Date: 25 May 1999 18:13:55 GMT
-
- If you have Windows, consider looking at VMware
-
- http://www.vmware.com/
-
- which provides a virtual machine where you can run Unix and
- therefore MH under Windows.
-
- From: Ted Nolan <ted at ags.ga.erg.sri.com>
- Date: 24 May 99 17:20:27 GMT
-
- The latest Cygnus Cygwin, GNU tools that run under Windows,
-
- http://www.cygwin.com/
-
- seems to work pretty well and may well be able to build nmh.
-
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 16:02:39 -0700
-
- MH isn't just for Unix any more. Versions are reported to run on
- OS/2 also (see "How can I build MH on OS/2?").
-
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- If you have a computer running Unix, you can probably run MH.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.02 How do I build MH?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:13:12 -0700
-
- If you're using Linux, you can simply install the nmh or MH package
- which is available in most distributions.
-
- If you want to build nmh, follow the directions in the file named
- INSTALL. Basically, it's simply "./configure; make; make install."
-
- If you have MH on the other hand, if you carefully read the file
- named READ-ME in the root of the source hierarchy, you should not
- have any trouble building MH.
-
- 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.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.03 What options should I use?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800
-
- BERK: Do NOT include the BERK option (in versions 6.7 or later)!
- BERK breaks the mh-format functions that take apart address lines,
- for example mbox, from, and friendly. This would really put a crimp
- 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.
-
- 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
- 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
- problem). While the numeric timezones may not look as nice, they
- are, at least, reasonably unambiguous. I would urge anyone who ever
- intends/hopes/expects to use email outside the U.S. to NOT use ATZ
- (sorry Stephen)."
-
- At any rate, the conf/examples directory has been updated and
- contains many examples show you which options are required on your
- platform and which are optional (in the upcoming version MH 6.8). At
- any rate, it is recommended that you examine the options in the
- example configuration files, and read about them in READ-ME.
-
- RPATHS: a side-effect is that slocal writes messages to your system
- maildrop without the MMDF C-A's that separate messages, so your BSD
- tools like from work.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.04 What do I need to do to use POP?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 23:31:01 -0700
-
- MH6.7 (and earlier versions too) include a server for version 3 of POP.
-
- From: Morgan Fletcher <morgan at tupelo.best.com>
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 19:24:23 -0800
-
- Ensure that /etc/services contains the following:
-
- pop2 109/tcp postoffice # POP version 2
- pop2 109/udp
- ->pop 110/tcp # POP version 3 (MH's inc thinks it's "pop")
- ->pop 110/udp
- pop3 110/tcp # POP version 3
- pop3 110/udp
-
- Also compile with the POP options: POP, DPOP, RPOP, etc.
-
- From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
- Date: 06 Feb 1997 03:43:17 -0500
-
- To get MH to use the pop3 service, add POPSERVICE=pop3 to your MH
- configuration and recompile:
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.05 Does MH support IMAP?
- From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at MessagingDirect.COM>
- Date: 27 Jul 1999 11:33:39 -0600
-
- Run exmh on the laptop, and modify your .mh_profile to inc using
- APOP. This is how I run mh-e and it works fine. (I did have to
- modify mh-e a wee bit to allow it to prompt for the password. You
- would likely have to do something similar with exmh.)
-
- As a spare time project I'm adding enough IMAP support to MH (6.8.3)
- to allow you to 'inc -imap [-imapfolder foo]'. If I ever get this
- done I'll stick the diffs up somewhere. (It's not a big priority as
- I can get at my IMAP INBOX using APOP.)
-
- From: Tim Showalter <tjs at andrew.cmu.edu>, John Prevost <visigoth at cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:34:56 -0400
-
- We are developing fmh and intend to support as much of MH as is
- feasible. However, MH and IMAP don't necessarily agree as to what
- 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.
-
- 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
- interested in the IMAP aspects as we're using a networked file
- system and saving stuff on the local disk just isn't an option.
-
- fmh is not MH at a very fundamental level. It is very unlikely that
- it will be merged, as we're not quite as interested in creating
- something that is MH and IMAP as we are in writing a good IMAP
- 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>.
-
- From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at rahul.net>
- Date: 23 Sep 1996 08:39:52 GMT
-
- What prevents people from doing a telnet to their mail server,
- logging in, and firing up MH directly? Site policy? An operating
- system that does not let MH compile or run? Overloaded machine with
- insufficient processing power for MH? All these are site-specific
- problems and the solution lies in solving them locally, not in
- forcing MH to go over IMAP.
-
- 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.
-
- 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
- scratch.
-
- From: John Romine <jromine at ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:45:27 -0700
-
- No. MH only supports retrieving mail using POP3. POP3 is on the
- "standards track"--it is now an elective Internet Draft Standard
- (see RFC 1938 for more details). At this point, IMAP[23] are
- "experimental, limited use" protocols; it is unlikely that MH will
- support them.
-
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:45:32 -0700
-
- Since John posted the message above, IMAP has progressed from an
- "experiemental, limited use" protocol. While IMAP is not universal,
- many vendors now have implementations.
-
- I've found several things which might help. First, a definition
- lifted from the Pine FAQ:
-
- What is IMAP?
-
- IMAP stands for "Internet Message Access Protocol". An IMAP client
- program on any platform at any location on the Internet can access
- email folders on an IMAP server. While the messages appear to be
- local, they reside on the server until the client explicitly moves
- or deletes them. The IMAP protocol is a superset of POP, containing
- all POP commands plus more. For a comparison of IMAP and POP, see
- the paper Comparing Two Approaches to Remote Mailbox Access: IMAP
- vs. POP (in ftp.cac.washington.edu:/mail/imap.vs.pop). IMAP is what
- allows Pine (or any other IMAP client) to get to email on a central
- campus email server. There are current IETF working groups revising
- IMAP and readying it to become an Internet standard. A copy of the
- latest IMAP draft may be obtained from:
-
- ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/latest-imap-draft
-
- For a list of IMAP clients, see the file imap.software, in the same
- directory.
-
- From: David L Miller <dlm at cac.washington.edu>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- ipop3d from the UW IMAP toolkit can operate in a couple modes. As a
- straight POP3 server, it uses the same C-client library as imapd, so
- it co-exists comfortably with imapd. It can also operate as a
- POP-to-IMAP gateway so that your POP-only clients can access IMAP
- services.
-
- ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z 1.0M
-
- From: Mark Crispin <MRC at Panda.COM>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- The only answer I can give for [how MH users can use IMAP] is that
- Pine can read mailboxes in MH format; and that someone might in the
- future develop a version of MH that can use IMAP.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.06 Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc but not slocal?
- From: John Romine <jromine at ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- 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.
-
- 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
- security hole (since it doesn't know when to drop the set-gid
- privileges). If you're using "mailgroup", you should remove slocal
- (and its man page) from your system.
-
- Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent.
- (See "What mail filters are available?")
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.07 How can I build MH on Solaris 2?
- From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
-
- nmh builds out of the box on Solaris.
-
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:56:31 -0700
-
- See http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/ for patches you may need.
-
- From: Neil Rickert <rickert at cs.niu.edu>,
- Scott K. Hutton <shutton at habanero.ucs.indiana.edu>,
- 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.,
- /usr/ccs/bin).
-
- Second, don't use GNU make. Make sure that the Sun make appears
- before the GNU make in your PATH.
-
- Use conf/examples/solaris2.sun.com and fix the paths, if necessary.
- Optionally change the following to use the GNU compiler, to perform
- optimization, and to create shared libraries.
-
- cc gcc
- ccoptions -O -g -msupersparc
- slflags -shared
-
- Fix mhn.c with the diff in
-
- http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/si_value_2.3.
-
- Optionally incorporate the Content-Length header fix. (See "How can
- I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?")
-
- Linking with /usr/ucblib/libucb.so is incompatible with including
- <dirent.h>.
-
- When compiling, you can ignore the following warning:
-
- fmtcompile.c", line 238: warning: semantics of "/" change in ANSI C;
- 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."
-
- See also ftp://ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.faq.
-
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
-
- From: Gary Strand <strandwg at ncar.ucar.edu>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- To cure slocal's Segmentation Fault problems, I decided to try 'cc'
- instead of 'gcc' (an alleged no-no under Solaris) and MH built just
- fine, and it's working perfectly.
-
- From: "Jason R. Mastaler" <jason at Mastaler.COM>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 17:35:13 -0400
-
- Don't use "ldoptions -s" with gcc. It may cause the compile to fail
- with:
-
- gcc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 11
- *** Error code 1
-
- From: "Jeffrey T. Eaton" <jeaton at galt.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 15:30:36 GMT
-
- Fixed [DBM_PAGFNO_NOT_AVAILABLE error] by getting the latest gdbm
- package, compiling and installing it and the dbm/ndbm compatability
- stuff, and moving Sun's broken ndbm.h out of /usr/include.
-
- To fix "../sbr/libmh.so: undefined reference to
- `__builtin_va_arg_incr'", add "option __BUILTIN_VA_ARG_INCR" to your
- MH configuration.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.08 How can I build MH on Linux?
- From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
-
- nmh should build out of the box for most Linux systems.
-
- 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
-
- http://www.debian.org/.
-
- See also http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/linux/.
-
- From: "James A. Robinson" <jimr at simons-rock.edu>
- Date: 17 Apr 96 20:39:02 GMT
-
- Somebody on Debian ported it to Linux ELF. Look on
- ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/binary/mail/mh_6.8.4-13.deb for
- the .deb package of MH (it's a compressed tar file). The source is
- in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/source/mail/mh_6.8.4-orig.tar.gz
- and mh_6.8.4-13.diff.gz.
-
- From: Brian Kirouac <bri at psa.pencom.com>
- 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/SRPMS/mh-6.8.3-5.i386.rpm
-
- From: "Brandon S. Allbery" <bsa at kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 16:18:50 -0800
-
- The current patch is the first one listed below. The old patch only
- 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.]
-
- Recent versions of GNU make choke on MH's makefiles. Unfortunately,
- the shared library patches depend on "export". If you have problems
- building MH, remove the "export" lines from all of the makefiles (if
- you applied the shared library patches) and try using BSD pmake
- instead.
-
- If you don't want to compile MH, the second file contains
- pre-compiled ready-to-run binaries which can simply be extracted in
- the root directory.
-
- ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Mail/readers/mh-6.8.3-diffs.tar.gz
- ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Mail/readers/mh-6.8.3-bin.tar.gz
-
- The sizes are 650k and 22k respectively.
-
- Note that these files are occasionally "cleaned up" by accident so
- please let me know if they are missing.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.09 How can I build MH on IRIX?
- From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
-
- nmh should build out of the box for Irix.
-
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:33:22 -0700
-
- See http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/sgi/ for patches you may need.
-
- From: Arne K. Frick <frick at info.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: 06 Jun 1995 18:30:01 GMT
-
- There is a file at viz.tamu.edu:/pub/sgi (see FAQ) containing a diff
- and sample configuration. If you cannot locate it, I can mail it to
- you. Note, however, that I had tremendous difficulties with them
- under 5.3:
-
- 1. Be sure to use /bin/make, NOT GNU make.
- 2. patch vomits over the diff. You can get around this by increasing the
- "fuzz factor" to 4.
- 3. The Makefile target for the shared library doesn't work. I had to do it
- by hand.
-
- But I'm stuck compiling mhn.c.
-
- From: Shankar Unni <shankar at sgi.com>
- Date: 9 Jun 1995 01:53:48 GMT
-
- The fix for compiling mhn.c is in
-
- http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/si_value_2.3.
-
- From: Jack Repenning <jackr at informix.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 1995 02:35:41 GMT
-
- (See "IRIX config file") below.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.10 How can I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?
- From: Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik at Holland.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:38:30 -0700
-
- Apply http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/content_length to
- your MH distribution and add the configuration option
- "CONTENT_LENGTH". It also includes the si_ fix in
-
- http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/solaris/si_value_2.3
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.11 How can I build MH on HP-UX?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:50:54 -0700
-
- If you find that your zotnet/tws directory isn't compiling, upgrade
- your MH (see "What is the current version/status of MH?") which
- includes fixes to lexedit.sed.
-
- See http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/hp/ for for patches you may need.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.12 Can I prevent adding the local hostname to addresses behind firewalls?
-
- From: Ted Remillard <tedr at hood.sd.com>
- Date: 24 Jun 1996 08:53:42 -0700
-
- You can get MH to stop managing the headers and let the email server
- to do it. To do this, build MH with the options DUMB and REALLYDUMB.
- In the $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file, set the server option to
- the IP address of the email server. After this is done, MH sends
- email directly to the email server and Local email To: and From:
- fields just have the user's simple email address, e.g., <fred>, and
- the remote email From: header will contain user@domainname, e.g.,
- <fred@sd.com>.
-
- Don't forget to define the REALLYDUMB option in the file
- sbr/addrsbr.c described below.
-
- From: Bret Rothenberg <bretr at endeavour.exar.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 12:25:24 -0800 (PST)
-
- Yes, use the "localname" parameter in "$MHLIB/mts.conf" (mtstailor)
- to specify the desired hostname.
-
- From: Ken Hornstein <kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 18 Aug 1995 23:51:48 -0400
-
- If you're behind a firewall and sendmail gives you fits because MH
- adds the node name or site name to each address in the To: and CC:
- fields, you'll need to modify the MH source.
-
- The relevant source has to do with the REALLYDUMB option in
- sbr/addrsbr.c. Essentially what you need to do is set it up so
- REALLYDUMB is turned on (normally, it's turned off if you have MMDF
- or SMTP turned on). This will do what you want. I did this at our
- site, and it's been working great. The stuff for REALLYDUMB starts
- around line 613.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.13 Is there a patch to fix this or that?
- From: Kimmo Suominen <kim at tac.nyc.ny.us>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 13:40:35 -0800
-
- 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.
- Since the last complete release of MH (version 6.8.3) UNIX systems
- have evolved making changes in the MH code necessary. Several new
- UNIX systems have emerged requiring new configuration templates and
- examples. This archive tries to collect all these fixes and
- enhancements that in the past have been available only through
- word-of-mouth and occasional reposts to newsgroups or mailing lists.
-
- The initial archive layout and the very time consuming collecting
- and categorizing of patches has been done by Jerry Peek.
-
- 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>.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.14 How can I build MH on OS/2?
- From: Sanjay Aiyagari <sanjay at sandbox.snetnsa.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 1996 19:37:10 GMT
-
- ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/os/os2/network/MH/
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 02.15 Do any POP/IMAP servers handle MH format?
- From: "Carl S. Gutekunst" <csg at eng.sun.com>
- Date: 27 May 1997 07:24:34 GMT
-
- The University of Washington POP3 and IMAP servers can be backended
- by a variety of stores, including MH. This is the basis for
- Netscape's store, curiously enough. I haven't looked closely at how
- Mark Crispin implemented support for the new IMAP4 features when
- using an MH backend; it seems like there is a lot of computation
- when opening a folder for the first time, writing in the UID fields
- and such. But it basically appears to work.
-
- From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at MessagingDirect.COM>
- Date: 27 Jul 1999 11:36:25 -0600
-
- But [the UW IMAP server] can't delete/expunge from MH folders. (At
- least I've never been able to get it to work, and I've tried just
- about everything.) #mh in UW imapd isn't something I'd recommend to
- any serious MH user.
-
- From: Mark Crispin <mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:43:25 -0700
-
- > But it can't delete/expunge from MH folders.
-
- That's a very old version. delete/expunge has been in imap-4.x for a
- long while. However, there's no sticky flags.
-
- > #mh in UW imapd isn't something I'd recommend to any serious MH user.
-
- The converse is also true. The two don't play ball very well.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.00 ***** Scanning & Reading *****
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.01 What do I do if scan shows the wrong date?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Upgrade to MH 6.8 or nmh.
-
- From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo at sr.hp.com>
- Date: 19 Jan 2000 23:01:10 -0800
-
- MH 6.8.3 and nmh 1.0 still have a minor buglet where sortm doesn't
- always sort messages properly. If a (questionable) mail client sends
- messages with 2-digit years, like:
-
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 09 22:02:01 EST
-
- or sends out buggy dates like (as buggy versions of Elm do):
-
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 100 22:02:01 EST
-
- then sortm will not sort these messages properly.
-
- I have submitted patches to nmh-workers.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.02 How would one go about reading Usenet with MH?
- 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.
-
- 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".
-
- To set the default save location correctly in rn, use:
-
- rn -M -/
-
- or in your nn presentation sequence:
-
- news.announce. +$F/$N
- comp.mail.mh +
- .
- .
-
- If there's news spooled on your machine (that is, not via NNTP) then
- you can read a newsgroup with commands like:
-
- show first +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh
- next
- ...
-
- You can also use sequences to keep track of what you've read. MH
- will automatically set a "cur" sequence in each newsgroup you read
- that way. So, to continue reading the newsgroup sometime later,
- after you've read some other folder, you can do:
-
- next +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh
-
- and you'll read the next (new) article (if any) in that newsgroup.
-
- Note that this can eventually make your private context file pretty
- huge; if there's a group you don't read often, you can remove its
- context entries with a command like:
-
- rmf +/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/mh
-
- Don't try that on a folder full of mail (a folder that isn't
- read-only), though... in that case, it'll remove all the messages!
-
- 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:
-
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/senove.htm#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
-
- 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
- newsgroup. To enable bbc, you have to specify "bboards" when you
- build MH.
-
- From: Kimmo Suominen <kim at tac.nyc.ny.us>
- Date: 15 Aug 1996 18:18:10 GMT
-
- Sendmail v8 comes with MAILER(pop) which was written for the MH
- spop. Since I use bboards with NNTP, I never looked at the bboards
- setup.
-
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- See mhunify in (see also "What other MH software is
- available?").
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.03 How can I search through multiple folders?
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Recurse through the folders (in csh and sh):
-
- % foreach f (`folders -f`) $ for f in `folders -f`
- ? pick [switches] +$f > pick [switches] +$f
- ? end > done
-
- Or create a folder that contains links to all messages (in csh and sh):
-
- % foreach f (`folders -f | grep -v -x ln`)
- ? refile -src +$f -link all +ln
- ? end
-
- $ for f in `folders -f | grep -v -x ln`
- > do refile -src +$f -link all +ln
- > done
-
- and in the future, refile messages with "refile +folder +ln". To
- find something, use:
-
- % pick [switches] +ln
-
- 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
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.04 Why don't MH format commands such as %(friendly) work?
- From: Anthony Baxter <anthony at aaii.oz.au>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- The BERK option disables address parsing and therefore functions
- such as %(friendly). Recompile MH without the BERK option.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.05 Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- It's not the fault of the "show" command or of MH in general. It's
- your system's configuration. Check the $MHLIB/mhn.defaults
- (mhn_defaults) file; if it doesn't have defaults for all content
- types, add them. Or, if you can't (or shouldn't) change mhn.defaults
- (mhn_defaults), you can put default entries in your MH profile file
- for those content types.
-
- Here's the part of the mhshow(1) (mhn(1)) manpage that explains how
- content types are handled. The example is for mhshow, but if you're
- using mhn, you'd replace mhshow with mhn:
-
- First, mhshow will look for an entry of the form:
-
- mhshow-show-<type>/<subtype>
-
- to determine the command to use to display the content. If this
- isn't found, mhshow will look for an entry of the form:
-
- mhshow-show-<type>
-
- to determine the display command. If this isn't found, mhshow has
- two default values:
-
- mhshow-show-text/plain: %pmoreproc '%F'
- mhshow-show-message/rfc822: %pshow -file '%F'
-
- If neither apply, mhshow will check to see if the message has a
- application/octet-stream content with parameter "type=tar". If so,
- mhshow will use an appropriate command. If not, mhshow will
- complain.
-
- So, add defaults that cover the types MH doesn't handle right now
- (or doesn't handle the way you want it to). Your defaults will
- override corresponding defaults in the $MHLIB/mhn.defaults
- (mhn_defaults) file. For example, if you don't have an HTML
- editor/browser on your system, you could tell MH to use the "less"
- paginator for HTML message parts:
-
- mhshow-show-text/x-html: less %F
-
- You can put that line in your MH profile.
-
- You can even set different defaults for different terminal types
- (say, your VT100 at home and your X setup at work). Make a file in
- the same format as mhn.defaults (mhn_defaults); store its pathname
- in the MHSHOW (MHN) environment variable. Add a test to your shell
- setup file (.bash_profile, .profile, .login) that tests the value of
- the TERM variable -- and, if you have an mhshow (mhn) setup file for
- that terminal type, store its pathname in the MHSHOW (MHN) variable.
-
- 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
-
- From: Michael K. Neylon <mneylon at engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- If you are not using the X Window System, you may have to add this
- line to your MH profile:
-
- mhshow-charset-iso-8859-1: /bin/sh -c '%s' # nmh
- mhn-charset-iso-8859-1: /bin/sh -c '%s' # MH
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.06 Can I get show not to run "less" so much on MIME messages?
- 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.
-
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- If you say, "show all," and one of the messages was a MIME message,
- your pager will be run several times on each message, rather than
- once on all the messages as a whole. If you find this annoying, set
- the environment variable NOMHNPROC:
-
- % setenv NOMHNPROC "" # csh
- $ NOMHNPROC= # sh and bash
- $ export NOMHNPROC
-
- 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
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.07 Why do I get "mhn: don't know how to display content"?
- From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
-
- This has already been fixed in nmh.
-
- From: Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:49:50 -0700
-
- MH 6.8.3 has a bug where it will not handle multipart/foo correctly
- if it doesn't know about foo. The patch:
-
- http://www.gw.com/mail/mh/patches/all/mhn_multipart
-
- tells it to treat such things as if they were multipart/mixed.
-
- (See also "Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?").
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.08 How can I automatically delete MH backup files?
- 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 '#'.
-
- # Remove old MH files
- 5 5 * * * find /PATH/TO/HOME/Mail -name ",*" -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.09 Fixing "cannot fopen and lock /var/spool/mail/(user)".
- From: Patrick.Wambacq at esat.kuleuven.ac.be
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 15:00:16 +0200
-
- One should put the following lines in the $MHLIB/mts.conf
- (mtstailor) file:
-
- lockldir:
- lockstyle: 1
-
- This prevents MH from using kernel level locking, and uses lock
- files instead. It solved the problem for me on two different
- architectures. When the lockldir entry is left empty as above, the
- lock file is put in the same directory as the file to be locked. If
- another directory is wanted, its name should be put here.
-
- From: alhy at MAILBOX.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:01:16 -0700
-
- Often, this is caused by an NFS file lock. Don't ask me how it got
- there in the first place. To remove the file lock, do the following:
-
- # cd /var/spool/mail
- # cp user /tmp/user.tmp; rm user # save mail; remove locked file
- # chown user /tmp/user.tmp # allow user to inc old mail
- # 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.
-
- (See also "Why does inc hang (on Sun)?")
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.10 Can I read my mail with a Web browser?
- Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 11:02:52 -0500
- From: Kent Landfield <kent at nfr.net>
-
- Hypermail now supports MIME and alternate mailbox formats and sorts
- by author, date, and thread and can be read by a WWW reader.
-
- http://www.landfield.com/hypermail/
-
- From: "Patrick A. Coronato" <coronato at me216.teb.allied.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 1995 16:36:03 GMT
-
- MHonArc, by Earl Hood from Convex, will read MH mailboxes as well as
- Unix mailboxes, create HTML "archives" and will also sort by date,
- thread and author and has support for MIME. Also, MHonArc is
- written in the Perl (version 4) language. (You should go to this
- site if nothing more than to see the cool logo!)
-
- http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.11 How can I run inc automatically with POP?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:23:51 -0800
-
- If MH has been compiled with RPOP, then the POP server host either
- needs to have your host in /etc/hosts.equiv or in your .rhosts file.
- Then add to your MH profile:
-
- inc: -host cuckoo
-
- given that "cuckoo" is the name of the your POP server.
-
- From: Andy Norman <ange at hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Assuming your POP server is called cuckoo, add an entry to your MH
- profile for 'inc' like so:
-
- inc: -noaudit -norpop -noapop -host cuckoo
-
- Add the following to ~/.netrc and ensure it is readable only by you
- (e.g., chmod 600 .netrc):
-
- machine cuckoo.domain.name login joeuser password secret
-
- Replace the hostname, login and password with your own, of course.
- The hostname probably has to be fully qualified (i.e., include the
- full domain name). This example assumes that you can send mail by
- other means (e.g., with SMTP).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.12 Why does inc hang (on Sun)?
- From: ericding at mit.edu (Eric J. Ding)
- Date: 30 Apr 1996 00:22:01 -0400
-
- This may be due to a non-robust implementation of lockf() over NFS.
- Try setting lockstyle to 1 in the $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file
- so that MH uses dotfile locking rather than FLOCK or LOCKF.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.12 How can I get POP to work?
- From: Jonathan George <jmg at hpopd.pwd.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:23:16 GMT
-
- If you get the error:
-
- inc: -ERR Unknown command: "rpop"
-
- you're trying to use "rpop" as the mechanism to authenticate the
- user. This mechanism is specified in RFC 1225 and then removed by
- RFC 1460.
-
- Your POP server is (rightly) rejecting this.
-
- The POP specification (RFC 1938) states that authentication is done
- either via a USER/PASS pair or via the APOP command.
-
- Try running inc with -noapop -norpop flags.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.13 How do I persuade mhshow (mhn) not to bring up a new window?
- From: Larry Daffner <ldaffner at convex.com>
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 16:53:39 -0600
-
- Add one of the following to your .mh_profile:
-
- mhshow-charset-iso-8859-1: %s # nmh
- mhn-charset-iso-8859-1: %s # MH
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.14 How do I turn off of all the mhshow (mhn) prompts?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:33:10 -0800
-
- In nmh, use mhshow -nopause.
-
- From: Larry Daffner <ldaffner at convex.com>
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 16:53:39 -0600
-
- The "part xxx" message is controlled by the -list switch to mhn so
- add "mhn: -nolist" to your .mh_profile. To remove the pause, add an
- entry for "mhn-show-text/plain: more '%F'" to override the default
- which includes the "%p" escape. All of this is covered in the mhn
- man page (sort of--you need to add 2+2). It's a bit long, but well
- worth reading.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.15 Why is inc splitting messages improperly?
- From: Mayank Choudhary <micky at eng.sun.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:39:29 -0700
-
- MH considers "From " lines as message separators, so if this string
- is found within the body, inc splits the message.
-
- Add the following line to your .forward
-
- "|/usr/bin/mailcompat <user-name>"
-
- where user-name is your login-id.
-
- See mailcompat(1) for more information.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.16 Can MH thread messages?
- From: "John W. Coomes" <jcoomes at delirius.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 30 Apr 1997 13:02:10 -0500
-
- Sort of. You can resort your folders by Subject with:
-
- sortm -textfield subject
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.17 How can I avoid reading the HTML version of the message?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at gbr.newt.com>
- Date: 23 Jun 2000 10:19:34 -0700
-
- You might find that you have two versions of the same message within
- the message. For example, one part might have a content type of
- text/plain and the other might be text/html.
-
- You may find that mhshow (mhn -show) wants to show the HTML version
- This is a feature of the multipart/alternative content type. If you
- prefer reading the the plain text version over the HTML version,
- you'd have to remove the line in $MHLIB/mhn.defaults or
- ~/.mh_profile that starts with mhshow-show-text/html
- (mhn-show-text/html). Of course, the tradeoff is that you'd never be
- able to view text/html at all, but you probably wouldn't care.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.18 How do I view or save attachments?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at gbr.newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:12:15 -0800
-
- Use mhshow (mhn -show) and mhstore (mhn -store) respectively. See
- the man pages for more details.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 03.19 How do I view HTML attachments with Netscape?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at gbr.newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:58:05 -0800
-
- Add one of the following to ~/.mh_profile:
-
- 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
- handy. After reading the message, you can dismiss the window with
- M-w and go back to reading mail.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 04.00 ***** Filing *****
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 04.01 Can I append MH messages to a Unix mailbox format file?
- From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
-
- In nmh, use packf instead.
-
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Yes, see $MHLIB/packmbox.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 04.02 Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file?
- 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.
-
- #!/bin/sh
-
- for f in Mail/*; do
- if [ -d $f ]; then
- touch msgbox
- folder=`basename $f`
- echo -n packing $folder ...
- packf +$folder
- echo done
- mv msgbox Mail-rmail/$folder
- 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.
-
- Be sure not to append any messages before they are converted from MMDF
- to BABYL, since there may be really strange results.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 04.03 Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?"
- From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:58 -0500
-
- This bug has been fixed in nmh (as of version 0.20). There are no
- limitations on the length of an entry in the .mh_sequences file.
-
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- There is a line length limit in this file. When sequences are
- unbroken (without gaps in numbering), that makes short entries in
- the .mh_sequences file, like this:
-
- inftex: 72-8000
-
- But when there are lots of numbering gaps, the entry gets long:
-
- inftex: 76 79-81 87 95-96 105 109 120 124 135 141 158 163...
-
- That's when you run into problems, and why it's good to keep the
- folder packed when you can. Simply run "folder -pack +folder".
-
- If you're refiling a lot of messages in a large folder, you might
- not be able to use sequences. Use backquotes to give the message
- numbers directly to "refile". For example:
-
- 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):
-
- pick -to info-tex | xargs refile +tex/info-tex
-
- 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.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 04.04 How can you save News articles into an MH folder?
- 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":
-
- s `mhpath new +somefolder`
-
- Or if your newsreader lets you define your own commands, as in shell
- 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 "|":
-
- | $MHLIB/rcvstore +somefolder
-
- Of course, you can also put that in a little shell script.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 04.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
- From: glimpse at cs.arizona.edu
- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:26:24 -0800
-
- Glimpse is a very powerful indexing and query system that allows you
- to search through all your files very quickly. It can be used by
- individuals for their personal file systems as well as by
- organizations for large data collections.
-
- 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?
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 1995 18:51:24 GMT
-
- The easiest way I know of is to sort the folder by the Message-ID
- 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)").
-
- The Perl script in (see "Removing dupicate messages (Perl)) does not
- require that you first sort the folder.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 04.07 How can I remove holes in numbering?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
-
- folder -pack
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.00 ***** Composing & Replying *****
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.01 Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one?
- From: Larry McVoy <lm at slovax.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- I carefully reconfigured and rebuilt MH from scratch and the problem
- went away.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.02 How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"?
- 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".
-
- From: Alan Thew <qq11 at liv.ac.uk>, Mike Schwager <schwager at cs.uiuc.edu>,
- James T Perkins <jamesp at sp-eug.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- When making a reply, specify a filter file on the command line:
-
- repl -filter repl.format
-
- This filter file must be in your MH mail directory (usually "Mail",
- in your home directory). Here are a couple of example repl.format
- files:
-
- overflowtext="",overflowoffset=0
- message-id:nocomponent,formatfield=\
- "In message %{text}you write:"
- body:component=">",overflowtext=">",overflowoffset=0
-
- or
-
- overflowtext="",overflowoffset=0
- date:component="Your message dated",formatfield=\
- "%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(pretty{text})%>"
- 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.
-
- 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
- message. Indeed, it is proper etiquette to edit out all unnecessary
- 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.
-
- 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
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.03 How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- Add these two lines to your MH profile file:
-
- Alternate-Mailboxes: user@host1, user@host2, ...
- repl: -nocc me
-
- The Alternate-Mailboxes also tells scan which messages are really
- from you so that it can place the recipient in the scan line instead
- of the sender.
-
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- To get one copy, you can either:
-
- - Take out the "-nocc me"... then you'll get exactly one copy of
- your replies (assuming all your addresses are listed in
- Alternate-Mailboxes), or
-
- - (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).
-
- 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
-
- From: Alec Wolman <wolman at crl.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- Listing the name of a mailing list in Alternate-Mailboxes is also a
- convenient way to AVOID automatically cc-ing a mailing list when
- replying to a person who sent the message to the mailing-list.
-
- From: Andre Srinivasan <asriniva at us.oracle.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:33:19 -0800
-
- Rather than specify the hostname as part of the mailbox, you can
- simply specify the username and it will match on any host:
-
- Alternate-Mailboxes: asriniva
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.04 How can I include my signature?
- From: Eric W. Ziegast <ziegast at uunet.uu.net>,
- Hardy Mayer <hardy at golem.ps.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- There are several ways.
-
- 1) The MH way.
-
- 1a) In your Mail directory, create files that
- include your signature into the format of the message.
-
- ~/Mail/components:
- To:
- cc:
- Subject:
- --------
-
- --
- Eric Ziegast ziegast at uunet.uu.net
- UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast
-
- ~/Mail/replfmt
- body:component="> ",compwidth=2
- :--
- :Eric Ziegast ziegast at uunet.uu.net
- :UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast
-
- To use the replfmt file, add the following to your ~/.mh_profile:
-
- repl: -filter replfmt
-
- When comp is used, your signature is already there along with my
- headers. When repl is used, the mhl program takes the body of
- the letter you're replying to, prepends '> ' to each line and
- then adds your signature at the end (available after version
- 6.7).
-
- 1b) Create an "editor" which can be called from whatnow to add the
- signature when desired or create a frontend to post (use the
- .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.
-
- 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
-
- 2) Using your editor. If you use vi, you can use something like:
-
- map S :r ~/.signature
-
- to load your signature out of .signature every time you
- hit 'S'.
-
- 3) Use your windowing system. xterm, for example, can provide key
- and button mappings for the utterly lazy.
-
- 4) If you use Emacs with mh-e:
-
- 4a) C-c C-s will append the signature.
-
- From: Andre Srinivasan <andre at neuronet.pitt.edu>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- 4b) Add the following to your .emacs file:
-
- (add-hook 'mh-compose-letter-function
- (function
- (lambda(a b c)
- (save-excursion
- (goto-char (point-max))
- (beginning-of-line)
- (mh-insert-signature)))))
-
- This hook is called after the draft buffer has been initialized,
- but before you have a chance to type anything.
-
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist at perl.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Tired of the same old signature? Want different signatures for
- different newsgroups? Here's a program to help you out.
-
- 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.
-
- You have your choice of three kinds of signatures:
-
- 1) random (short) fortune from "fortune -s"; you get these if
- you don't have a global sig file.
- 2) random fortune from ~/News/SIGNATURES [global sig file]
- 3) random fortune form ~/News/(newsgroup)/SIGNATURES [local sig files]
-
- Send mail if interested.
-
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- See also the Signature FAQ (see "What references exist for MH?").
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.05 How do I call my editor with arguments?
- From: John Romine <jromine at ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Set your editor (in .mh_profile) to the following shellscript.
-
- #/bin/sh
- <youreditor> <yourargs> "$@"
- exit 0
-
- From: Ray Nickson <Ray.Nickson at comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- You might find it useful to make <youreditor> $EDITOR, or to use
- different arguments depending on your EDITOR environment variable.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.06 How can I digestify messages in a folder for mail to another user?
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>, Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- How about:
-
- forw [-digest tmp] [-form forwcomps] [-filter mhl.digest]
- messages +folder
-
- These messages can be un-digestified :-) by the MH burst(1) program.
-
- 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
-
- 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.
-
- forw -mime messages +folder
-
- (Make sure that you either have "automhnproc: mhn" in your mh
- profile, or type "edit mhn" to whatnow before you send it.)
-
- 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.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.07 How can I change my return address?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800
-
- If you find that your mailer creates a From header that others have
- trouble replying to, you can add a Reply-To header to override the
- From header in replies.
-
- Copy the components and replcomps files which are normally found in
- $MHLIB into your Mail directory and add a line like the following
- after the Subject header replacing my address with your address:
-
- Reply-To: jack@newt.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.08 How can I change my From header?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:40:50 -0800
-
- 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 user@somedomain.com and you've added a From
- field of:
-
- From: Joe Bob <joe.bob@somedomain.com>
-
- you'll add the following to .mh_profile:
-
- Alternate-Mailboxes: joe.bob@somedomain.com
-
- From: Bill Wisner <wisner at netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0800
-
- If you're just interested in changing the hostname, add a line to
- $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor):
-
- localname: desired_host_name
-
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- 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.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.09 How can I save a copy of all messages I send?
- From: Ping Huang <pshuang at sgihub.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:51:33 -0800
-
- 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.
-
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>, Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Copy the components and replcomps files which are normally found in
- $MHLIB into your Mail directory and add a line like the following
- after the cc header:
-
- Fcc: +out
-
- All outgoing messages will then be saved in the +out folder. If you
- make a distcomps file, it needs "Resent-Fcc:".
-
- From: Jeppe Sigbrandt <jay at elec.gla.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 02:04:53 +0100
-
- You can also use @ in the Fcc field to file the outgoing message in
- the current folder.
-
- Fcc: @
-
- This is useful if you filter your mail (e.g., with procmail) and you
- read your mail in folders other than +inbox.
-
- From: David S. Goldberg <dsg at linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 30 Oct 1995 10:23:55 -0500
-
- You can get the Message-ID field by placing the folder in the "Fcc"
- field and adding:
-
- send: -msgid
-
- to your .mh_profile. Unfortunately, this Message-ID isn't as useful
- as sendmail's--it doesn't include the date.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified?
- From: Andy Rabagliati <andyr at wizzy.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- My suggestion would be to run Tom Christiansen's rfi script. If you
- cannot find it on *.sources archive sites (please try first), I can
- mail it to you.
-
- One good idea would be to write a whatnowproc that files the mail
- based on a procmail or deliver file. Then you can use the same file
- for incoming and outgoing mail.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.11 Can I post secure/encryped mail?
- From: Stephen Gildea <gildea at stop.mail-abuse.org>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 05:32:31 -0800
-
- There are several packages that support PGP in mh-e:
-
- mailcrypt by Patrick LoPresti <patl at lcs.mit.edu>
- and Jin Choi <jsc at mit.edu>. See
- http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ for more info.
-
- pgp.el by Jack Repenning <jackr at informix.com>
- ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/pub/pgp-aux/pgp-el.tar.gz
-
- Jack and I have been in communication, so I know that pgp.el will work
- with mh-e 5.0.
-
- 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.
-
- See http://www.pgp.net/ for more info.
-
- Note that I use mailcrypt. It is also comes as a Debian GNU/Linux
- package.
-
- 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.
-
- Here is my mhn profile entry to display the messages.
-
- mhshow-show-application/x-pgp: %l pgp -m '%F' # nmh
- mhn-show-application/x-pgp: %l pgp -m '%F' # MH
-
- to use the script, after you edit the message, at the What now?
- prompt, type "edit pgpmail" for plain ascii encryption or "pgpmail
- -m" for a MIME formatted encryption. If you want to add a digital
- signature, give the script the -s flag also.
-
- From: Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ollie.clive.ia.us>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- TIS has a free, draft-standard compliant public key system that
- works with MH (PEM). Check it out on ftp.tis.com.
-
- From: Kimmo Suominen <kim at tac.nyc.ny.us>
- 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).
-
- From: mathew at mantis.co.uk
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Excellent stuff. I've tried altering it to conform to
- draft-borenstein-pgp-mime-00.txt.
-
- Unfortunately, I can't get mhn to tag PGP-armoured text as
- application/pgp; format=text without it insisting on base64 encoding
- it. So I can't quite manage to implement the standard. *sigh*
-
- Presumably mhn thinks that anything which isn't text/* must be
- encoded.
-
- From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at sina.tcamc.uh.edu>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- There is an Emacs and MH based mail interface called Mew which,
- while still beta, is quite stable and works well. It fully handles
- MIME and PGP. Grab it from:
-
- ftp://ftp.aist-nara.ac.jp/pub/elisp/Mew/mew-current.tar.gz
-
- From: John R MacMillan <john at interlog.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:06:59 -0700
-
- Premail, in conjunction with MH, can display and compose security
- multiparts (e.g., multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted PGP mail,
- non-MIME PGP, and some S/MIME). Check out
-
- http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail/
-
- for details.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.12 How can I send multi-media (MIME) attachments?
- From: Brian Exelbierd <bex at ncsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 08:05:55 -0400
-
- The short guide:
-
- 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):
-
- #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.
-
- 5. Type "send" at the Whatnow prompt, and poof, you have just sent
- MIME mail. I strongly recommend you practice sending yourself
- MIME mail first.
-
- For more information, see the mhn(1) man page,
- ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types
- 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
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.13 What's the best way to send mail to a long list of people?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 07:53:53 -0700
-
- There are three ways to keep the list of members from appearing in
- everyone's header.
-
- If you're planning on mailing to these people regularly, the best
- way is to create an alias in /etc/aliases (/usr/lib/aliases). That
- way, recipients can send and reply to the list as well.
-
- 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:
-
- To: All-members: member1, member2, member3, ..., membern;
-
- The recipients see this:
-
- To: All-members:;
-
- You can make this an MH alias as well.
-
- The second way is to use a blind carbon copy (see "How do I send
- blind carbon copies?").
-
- Or you could also use the undocumented Dcc field which is used like
- the Bcc field, but doesn't inject the "Blind-Carbon-Copy." Warning:
- (See "What is the Dcc header?")
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.14 What is the Dcc header?
- From: jpeek at jpeek.com (Jerry Peek)
- Date: 14 Sep 96 05:51:13 GMT
-
- If you put the alias in the Dcc field and leave the To: field empty,
- there's a good chance that the recipients will get a message with
- the header field:
-
- Apparently-to: <someaddress>
-
- and it might even list several addresses. To avoid that, use a To:
- field with some address (like yours) in it. I use a comment that
- tells people what's really happening--like this, more or less:
-
- To: "Faculty members, c/o" <super@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
- dcc: faculty
-
- There are some other choices, like using an un-replyable group list
- in the To: field, but I think they tend to confuse non-techies.
-
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 09:46:37 -0700
- From: John Romine <jromine at yoyodyne.ICS.UCI.EDU>
-
- The Dcc (Distribution Carbon Copy) field behaves much like the Bcc
- field, but does not add the "Blind-Carbon-Copy" notice. This header
- is removed before posting the message,and a copy of the message is
- distributed to each listed address. This could be considered a form
- of Blind Carbon Copy which is best used for sending to an address
- which would never reply (such as an auto-archiver).
-
- People should not be using Dcc as a substitute-Bcc to send to other
- people. When users use Dcc as a substitute for Bcc, there is *no*
- indication to the "blind" recipients that they have received a blind
- copy. If those recipients should reply (and they have no indication
- why they shouldn't), the original author could be very embarassed
- (or worse).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.15 How can I make sense of the replcomps file?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:25:14 -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
-
- These will explain the following replcomps file. Don't start with the
- first four lines--the latter group of lines are much easier to understand.
-
- %(lit)%(formataddr %<{reply-to}%?{from}%?{sender}%?{return-path}%>)\
- %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr To: )\n%>\
- %(lit)%(formataddr{to})%(formataddr{cc})%(formataddr(me))\
- %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )\n%>\
- Organization: Newt Software
- %<{fcc}Fcc: %{fcc}\n%>\
- %<{subject}Subject: Re: %{subject}\n%>\
- %<{date}In-reply-to: Your message of "\
- %<(nodate{date})%{date}%|%(pretty{date})%>."%<{message-id}
- %{message-id}%>\n%>\
- --------
-
- In particular, note the following:
-
- \ consider the following line to be part of the current line
- \n inject an actual newline into the reply. Note that inserting
- a field without a trailing backslash (\) will cause
- that field to be emitted in the reply as well.
- %<{field}, %?{field}, %|, %> if field exists, else if field exists,
- else, endif
- %(command) mh-format commands
- %{field} value of the header field inserted at this point
-
- To add new fields, you can either add fields based on whether
- certain fields exist in the original message (e.g.,
- %<{message-id}...), or hard-code them, as in the Organization field
- above. Note that you can either use a "\n\" pair, or nothing at the
- end of a line to insert a newline in the reply.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.16 How can I convert quoted-printable to 8bit in quoted text in replies?
- From: Jarle F. Greipsland <jarle at idt.unit.no>
- 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
- multipart stuff), indents it with '> ', appends it to the draft
- message and invokes the ordinary editor on it. Here are the details:
-
- `isorepl' is a symbolic link from my $HOME/bin-directory to `repl'.
-
- In my .mh_profile I added the following two lines:
-
- isorepl: -form isoreplcomps -editor isoextract
- isoextract-next: vi
-
- The isoreplcomps file in my Mail-directory contains:
-
- %(lit)%(formataddr %<{reply-to}%?{from}%?{sender}%?{return-path}%>)\
- %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr To: )\n%>\
- %(lit)%(formataddr{to})%(formataddr{cc})%(formataddr(me))\
- %<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )\n%>\
- %<{fcc}Fcc: %{fcc}\n%>\
- %<{subject}Subject: Re: %{subject}\n%>\
- %<{date}In-reply-to: Your message of "\
- %<(nodate{date})%{date}%|%(pretty{date})%>."%<{message-id}
- %{message-id}%>\n%>\
- --------
- #<text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
- %<{message-id}In message %{message-id} %>\
- %<{from}%(friendly{from}) writes%|You write%>:
-
- This is a "Usenet-like" quoting style. Modify to suit your own
- taste. This form will setup the proper header, as well as the first
- line of the new message (In <mmmmbbbb> nnnn writes etc.).
-
- The first editor, `isoextract', looks like this:
-
- #!/bin/sh
- #
- # Called from within repl where the "editalt" variable is valid
- #
- # Point to a special MHN configuration file (save old one)
- OLDMHN="$MHN"
- MHN=$HOME/`mhparam Path`/isoquotemsg
- export MHN
-
- # Extract message body to "native" format (should be iso-8859-1)
- # > More bla bla.
- mhn -file "$editalt" -store >> $1 2>/dev/null
-
- MHN="$OLDMHN"
- myname=`basename $0`
- next=`mhparam ${myname}-next`
- if [ "x$next" != "x" ]; then
- exec $next "$@"
- fi
-
- `isoquotemsg' has just one rule; how mhn should store a text message.
-
- mhn-store-text: |sed -e 's/^[ ]*$//' \
- -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.)
-
- 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.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.17 Can I have aliases include aliases?
- From: Bruce Cox <bruce at maths.su.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:26:12 +1000
-
- 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:
-
- dead-men: presidents, authors
- presidents: washington, lincoln, jefferson, roosevelt
- authors: thoreau, irving, london
-
- and type:
-
- ali dead-men
-
- then you would get the response:
-
- washington, lincoln, jefferson, roosevelt, thoreau, irving, london
-
- If you had the dead-men line after the presidents and authors aliases, the
- response would be:
-
- presidents, authors
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.18 Why doesn't mhmail understand aliases?
- From: "John L. Romine" <jromine at yoyodyne.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: 25 Apr 1996 16:34:10 GMT
-
- One way that mhmail might be run is from a shell script. This means
- that the user running it might not use MH, and would not have a
- .mh_profile, etc. If you want to use aliases with mhmail, expand
- them before passing them as arguments (e.g., "mhmail `ali joe`").
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.19 How do I send blind carbon copies?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 00:32:14 -0700
-
- Use the Bcc header field:
-
- To: your-address-here
- Bcc: member1, member2, member3, ..., membern
-
- The recipients see this:
-
- To: your-address-here
-
- ------- Blind-Carbon-Copy
-
- Content of message, with headers
-
- If you don't want the "Blind-Carbon-Copy" message, use the Dcc
- field, but this is discouraged in true blind carbon copies since the
- warning may prevent the recipient from embarrassing someone
- inadvertently. Read the warning in (see "What is the Dcc header?").
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.20 When I forward a message, can I use its Subject?
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 20:16:31 -0800
-
- Obtain forwedit.
-
- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/contrib/jpeek/forwedit
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.21 Why is the timezone field in my 'Date:' field wrong?
- From: Alex Tomlinson <tomlinson at acm.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:16:41 -0500
-
- If the date field in your mail header looks like this:
-
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:59:03 +2228904
-
- remove -lbsd from your MH configuration, add "curses -lcurses", and
- rebuild.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.22 Can I automate the comp -editor mhn process?
- From: Soren Dayton <csdayton at gargoyle164.cs.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:23:32 GMT
-
- Add
-
- automhnproc: mhn
-
- to your MH profile.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.23 How can I remove those "=20" characters when forwarding?
- From: Dave Marquardt <marquard at Austin.IBM.Com>
- Date: 12 Oct 2000 10:27:38 -0500
-
- Use `forw -mime'.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 05.24 Can I use mh-format substitution with forw?
- From: Dave Marquardt <marquard at Austin.IBM.Com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:28:30 -0500 (EST)
-
- The answer is no, and the real question is why not?
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.00 ***** Posting *****
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.01 What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed".
- From: John Romine <jromine at ics.uci.edu>
- 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 :
-
- #! /bin/sh
- /usr/ucb/broken_vi "$@"
- exit 0
-
- Alternatively, compile MH with the ATTVIBUG option.
-
- Then complain to your vendor that "vi" is broken, and they should
- fix it.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.02 Can I run my message through a program (e.g., ispell) before sending?
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- It's pretty simple. If your speller is called myspell, use:
-
- What now? edit myspell
-
- MH will actually execute:
-
- myspell /your-mail-draft-directory/draftfile
-
- and give the entire draft message to your speller. The header will
- probably be "misspelled," of course, though you might be able to
- tell the speller to ignore it--or you could hack up a little shell
- script to run the speller on just the message body, then tack the
- corrected body back onto the header before sending.
-
- You can automate this some more. For example, if you want your
- speller to run after your first edit with "prompter" and also after
- you leave the "vi" editor, add these lines to your MH profile:
-
- prompter-next: myspell
- vi-next: myspell
-
- Then, at the "What now?" prompt:
-
- 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:
-
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/chaedi.htm#Edi
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.03 What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part".
- From: Owen Rees <rtor at ansa.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- You may find that post returns the following message:
-
- post: bad address 'Mr. Foo Bar <fb@somewhere.edu>' - no at-sign
- after local-part (Bar), continuing...
-
- The unquoted dot causes "Mr. Foo" to be parsed as the local part of
- the address. Either remove the dot, or rewrite the address as
- follows:
-
- "Mr. Foo Bar" <fb@somewhere.edu>
- (Mr. Foo Bar) <fb@somewhere.edu>
- (Mr. Foo Bar) fb@somewhere.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.04 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available"
- From: Peter Marvit <marvit at hplabs.hpl.hp.com>,
- Eric Bracken <bracken at bacon.performance.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- The error message itself is essentially correct. However, what this
- really means is: MH's post cannot connect to a running sendmail over
- an SMTP port (MH configured with SMTP and SENDMTS).
-
- The potential problems:
-
- 1. Your local sendmail daemon is dying or not running for some
- reason.
-
- 2. You use BIND and your local nameserver is not responding.
- Solution: Delete "/etc/resolv.conf."
-
- 3. Your $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) has its "servers:" pointing to a
- non-existent machine or a machine which is a) not reachable or b)
- not running the sendmail daemon.
-
- From: Bdale Garbee <bdale at col.hp.com>,
- Eric Bracken <bracken at bacon.performance.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- 4. The hostname localhost [127.0.0.1] is missing from /etc/hosts.
-
- Solution: add an entry for "localhost" to /etc/hosts or your DNS
- database or add the following to $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor):
-
- servers: 127.0.0.1 \01localnet
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.05 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender already specified"
- From: Paul Pomes <ppomes at Qualcomm.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- The problem in sendmail is that the RSET after the ONEX does not
- reset all the state information. Normally sendmail fork()s after
- the Mail from: statement and a RSET causes that child to exit. This
- automatically cleans up. If the fork() is suppressed by ONEX, then
- the source must be modified to do the cleanup. See "srvrsmtp.c
- patch" in the Appendix. If you don't have the sources, modify your
- MH sources to not use the ONEX verb.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.06 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [BHST] no socket opened"
- From: Steve Lembark <lembark at wrkhors.la.ca.us>, Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- This problem happens when there is no interface defined within the
- tcp system. A couple of workarounds include:
-
- 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).
-
- A better fix would be to define your tcp interface.
-
- Here, you run ifconfig and route (as root) to define the loopback
- device and route. You should add them to rc.local so they are
- effected at every boot.
-
- # ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 # Linux
- # ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 # Sun
-
- # route 127.0.0.1
-
- 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
- UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU 2000 Metric 0
- RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overrun 0
- TX packets 519 errors 0 dropped 0 overrun 0
-
- and "netstat -r" will show:
-
- # netstat -r
- Destination net/address Gateway address Flags RefCnt Use Iface
- 127.0.0.0 * UN 0 519 lo
-
- If you're not on a network and running DNS, your /etc/hosts will
- need at least:
-
- 127.0.0.1 your_host_name localhost # loopback address
-
- Note: put your name FIRST on the localhost line. This official name
- is used by sendmail to determine your return address.
-
- If you are on a network and running DNS, you might find that putting
- your host name in the localhost entry might gum up other things, in
- which case you'll want your hostname to have its own proper address.
-
- 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."
-
- 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.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.07 How do I fix the "X-Authentication-Warning" header?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:32:15 -0700
-
- (See "Fixing "Sender didn't use the HELO protocol"".)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.08 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [RPLY] 503 Need MAIL before RCPT"
- From: Bjoern Stabell <bjoerns at acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- I inserted:
-
- clientname: localhost
-
- in the $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file, and that fixed the problem.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.09 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket"
- From: Stefan Huebner <sh at muc.de>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 20:06:49 +0200
-
- Use spost instead of post. To do this:
-
- % mv post post.orig
- % ln -s spost post
-
- From: Chuck Mattern <cmattern at mindspring.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- If you are running sendmail instead of smail, make sure that all
- smtp entries in /etc/inetd.conf are commented out. If you do edit
- /etc/inetd.conf, don't forget to run to restart inetd with "kill -1
- <inetd PID>".
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.10 Fixing "Sender didn't use the HELO protocol"
- From: rickert at cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:01:16 -0800
-
- If you are sharing your $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file among
- several machines, and you are connecting to the local sendmail, then
- use 'localhost' as the hostname argument to the clientname parameter
- (described below).
-
- Otherwise, place mts.conf somewhere under /etc on each system, and
- install a symlink to it on the shared file system.
-
- From: labrown at dg-rtp.dg.com (Lance A. Brown)
- Date: 23 Apr 1996 14:43:04 -0400
-
- You can solve this by putting
-
- localname: localhostname
- localdomain: local.domain.name
-
- in your $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) file. This will make MH send a
- HELO string in the SMTP transaction.
-
- From: Terry Manderson <terry at azure.dstc.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Add
-
- clientname sender
-
- to $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) where sender is the name of the
- machine sending the message. The error message occurs because newer
- MTA's require SMTP's "HELO" command which MH omits in some
- configurations. When you add the above line, it forces MH to use the
- HELO command.
-
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- You get a header like:
-
- 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
-
- Opauthwarnings
-
- in your sendmail.cf.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 06.11 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local
- From: "Matthew V. J. Whalen" <whalenm at aol.net>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Change your "mts" in "conf/MH" from "sendmail/smtp" to just
- "sendmail."
-
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- The solution above will keep MH from using any SMTP server on your
- network. require sendmail to be installed on all machines. You could
- take advantage of the "sendmail/smtp" option to have MH talk to a
- non-local sendmail. In $MHLIB/mts.conf (mtstailor) add:
-
- servers <SMTP-server>
-
- It may also be caused by old versions of sendmail.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 07.00 ***** Mail Filters *****
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 07.01 What mail filters are available?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:27:24 -0800
-
- The list currently includes slocal (included with MH), deliver,
- procmail and mailagent. They are briefly described here. Slocal is
- probably the most popular by virtue of being included in the
- distribution. The next most popular entry is procmail, followed by
- deliver.
-
- Slocal comes with MH. It can be used to process incoming mail based
- on the contents of any of the headers. Actions include filing
- messages, running commands, printing messages on your terminal and
- so on. The configuration is made in ~/.maildelivery. People seem to
- have trouble with slocal bugs, and you can't use it if you don't
- have write permission on your system maildrop so a lot of people
- have opted for the alternatives, but it's easy to use and comes with
- MH.
-
- procmail is quite popular and has a very powerful configuration
- file. However, the syntax is its own, but it is easy to learn given
- a couple of good examples. Its advantages are its small size and
- speed. Like deliver, procmail may be installed as a delivery agent
- so you would not even have to have a .forward file.
-
- Deliver can run any script or program (called ~/.deliver), so you
- really can do anything you want to incoming mail. One feature that
- it sports that no other does is that you can install it as a local
- mailer in place of /bin/mail. If it's the local mailer, you don't
- need to have a .forward--~/.deliver is run anyway. In addition, it
- allows the system administrator to write some programs to filter
- everybody's mail. It came with my Linux system, so installation was
- non-existent.
-
- I started with slocal, and then moved to deliver. I switched to
- procmail because of a bug in deliver (which I think has since been
- fixed) whereby a blank line would be inserted into the header before
- header fields with numbers in them.
-
- 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.
-
- 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
- document:
-
- http://www.procmail.org/
-
- From: "Eric D. Friedman" <friedman at hydra.acs.uci.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 1996 08:28:46 GMT
-
- See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/filtering-faq/index.html.
-
- From: Stephen R. van den Berg <berg at pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Procmail can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort
- your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when
- subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritizing your
- mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival
- (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different
- types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail
- automatically to someone.
-
- From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi at grenoble.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:22:07 +0200
-
- "mailagent" is yet another mail filter, written in perl, which will
- let you do anything with your mail. It has all the features you may
- 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.
-
- The mailagent was designed to make mail filtering as easy as it can
- be. It is highly configurable and fairly complete. Rules are
- specified in a lex-like style, with the full power of perl's regular
- expressions. The automaton supports the notion of mode, and header
- selection has many magic features built-in, to ease the rule writing
- process.
-
- The distribution comes with a set of examples, an exhaustive test
- suite, and naturally a detailed manual page. It should be noted that
- the mailagent will work even if your system administrator forbids "|
- programs" hooks in the ~/.forward, provided you have access to some
- sort of cron daemon.
-
- You can get a full email distribution of the latest release by
- sending an appropriate command to my own mailagent, such as:
-
- Subject: Command
-
- @SH maildist PATH mailagent -
-
- where PATH stands for YOUR email address, i.e. a path from me to
- you.
-
- http://www.cpan.org/authors/Raphael_Manfredi/
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 07.02 Why slocal writes messages to system mailbox that from(1) can't read.
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Upgrade to MH 6.8 and set the RPATHS option. Better yet, use a more
- MH-like command instead of from: "scan -file $MAIL".
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 07.03 Where can I read about slocal and the format of .maildelivery?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- See the slocal man page.
-
- Here is brief example of a .maildelivery file that stores messages
- to babble in a folder and the system mailbox, stores mh-users in a
- folder but not the system mailbox, and puts the rest in the system
- mailbox.
-
- to mh-users | A "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/mh-users"
- cc mh-users | A "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/mh-users"
- to babble | R "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/babble"
- cc babble | R "$MHLIB/rcvstore -create +lists/babble"
- default - > ? /usr/spool/mail/wohler
-
- Your .forward file may look like (quotes necessary):
-
- "| $MHLIB/slocal -user your_login"
-
- In some implementations, the "-user your_login" is not needed. If
- not, manually running slocal with the flag will produce an error.
-
- See also chapter 12 (11) in the MH book, or the URL:
-
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/tocs/prmaau.htm
-
- Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent.
- (See "What mail filters are available?")
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 07.04 How do I debug my .maildelivery file?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- Use as many of the following as necessary.
-
- Put a message into a file and call slocal directly on it.
-
- $MHLIB/slocal -user $USER -verbose -debug < test-msg
-
- Modify your .forward to look like:
-
- "|/bin/sh -c 'exec >> /tmp/out 2>&1;
- $MHLIB/slocal -user $USER -verbose -debug'"
-
- Or modify a rule in .maildelivery to look like this:
-
- to foo | R "set -xv; exec >/tmp/out 2>&1; $MHLIB/rcvstore +foo"
-
- The previous examples are broken up for readability; the text must
- appear on one line.
-
- See also MH book section 12.11 (11.11), or the URL:
-
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/debugti.htm
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 07.05 Why isn't slocal working?
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0800
-
- If slocal doesn't appear to be doing anything, run the following
-
- $MHLIB/slocal -user your_login -verbose < file
-
- where "file" is some message in a mail folder. If you get something
- like:
-
- .maildelivery: ownership/modes bad (0, 154,154,0100666)
-
- your .maildelivery is writable by too many people. Make it writable
- only by you by running "chmod 644 .maildelivery".
-
- See also "How do I debug my .maildelivery file?"
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 07.06 Are there any good biff applications for MH?
- From: Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu>
- 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.
-
- From: crow at tivoli.com (David L. Crow)
- Date: 7 Jul 97 09:36:32 GMT
-
- I have used the following X resource with xbiff before:
-
- xbiff*checkCommand: grep -q '^unread' `mhpath +inbox`/.mh_sequences \
- && exit 0 || exit 2
-
- This should be all one line, but I split it with a line continuation
- character for readability.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 08.00 ***** mh-e *****
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 08.01 I have a question about mh-e
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 13:51:29 -0800
-
- Let me send you over to:
-
- http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/
-
- This is the SourceForge mh-e project. It has mailing lists and files
- to download, and will let you submit patches or support requests.
-
- The Support Requests section may already contain an answer to your
- question. If not, you can post your question:
-
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13357&atid=213357
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 09.00 ***** Xmh *****
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 09.01 How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor?
- From: Bob Ellison <ellison at sei.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- The modifications to xmh to support an external editor, annotations,
- and an append command can be found in the these places.
-
- ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/xmh-mods-R5-1.7.Z 37k
- ftp://ftp.sei.cmu.edu/pub/xmh/xmh-mods-R5-1.7.Z 37k
- ftp://ftp.sei.cmu.edu/pub/xmh/xmh-mods-R6-1.0.Z 37k
-
- 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).
-
- 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
- editor instead of the built in Athena text widget editor. This
- doesn't require any source code changes to xmh. These are included
- in the Appendix "Switching xmh's editor".
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 09.02 Does xmh support subfolders?
- From: Steve Malowany <malowany at cenparmi.concordia.ca>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- Yes. Create one by invoking "Create Folder" as usual, and enter
- something like: existing-folder/new-sub-folder. You can then access
- the subfolder by popping up a menu over the "existing-folder" button
- item.
-
- But:
-
- From: John Cooper <jsc at saxon.Eng.Sun.COM>
- 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.
-
- 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
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 09.03 How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh?
- From: Len Makin <len at mel.dit.csiro.au>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- Include the following line in your ~/app-defaults/XMh file:
-
- Xmh*replyInsertFilter: "sed 's/^/> /'"
-
- or,
-
- Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter: $MHLIB/mhl -form repl.filter
-
- From: Andy Linton <andy.linton at comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- 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
- 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
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Glossary
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- MH Mail Handler
- MHLIB Where MH support routines and files are kept; usually /usr/lib/mh
- or /usr/local/lib/mh.
- POP3 Post Office Protocol, RFC 1938
- MMDF Multi-channel Memo Distribution Facility
- MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, RFC 1521
- IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol, RFC 1064, 1176
- TIS Trusted Information Systems
- PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail
- PGP Pretty Good Privacy
- SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol (STD 10; RFC 821)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Acknowledgments
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:37:27 -0700
-
- I'd like to thank the following people for providing ideas on the
- layout of this article:
-
- Joe Wells <jbw at bigbird.bu.edu> Richard M. Stallman <rms at gnu.org>
- David Elliott <dce at smsc.sony.com> Tom Christiansen <tchrist at perl.com>
- Eugene N. Miya <eugene at nas.nasa.gov>
-
- We are also grateful to Kim F. Storm <storm at olicom.dk> and Edward
- Vielmetti <emv at ox.com> and the folks mentioned in the text of this
- document who have provided answers or other information to make this a
- better document. I regret that it is possible that some names have
- been accidently omitted. I would also like to thank all the readers
- of comp.mail.mh.
-
- I'd also like to thank John Romine <jromine at yoyodyne.ICS.UCI.EDU> for
- maintaining MH and the MH Web page, Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com> for
- writing the MH bible and for all his hard work with the entire MH
- project, Stephen Gildea <gildea at stop.mail-abuse.org> for maintaining mh-e
- in years past and always sending me lots of great comments, Kimmo
- Suominen <kim at tac.nyc.ny.us> for maintaining the MH patch page, and
- Richard Coleman <coleman at math.gatech.edu> for taking MH to nmh.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Switching xmh's editor
- From: Andrew Wason <aw at bae.bellcore.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- #! /bin/sh
- # This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line, then unpack
- # it by saving it into a file and typing "sh file". To overwrite existing
- # files, type "sh file -c". You can also feed this as standard input via
- # unshar, or by typing "sh <file", e.g.. If this archive is complete, you
- # will see the following message at the end:
- # "End of shell archive."
- # Contents: README Xmh.ad xmh-command.el xmhcommand xmhemacs
- # Wrapped by aw@jello on Fri Nov 15 17:10:34 1991
- PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb ; export PATH
- if test -f 'README' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then
- echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'README'\"
- else
- echo shar: Extracting \"'README'\" \(1269 characters\)
- sed "s/^X//" >'README' <<'END_OF_FILE'
- XThis is a short description of what to do with each of the enclosed files.
- X
- XXmh.ad
- X Merge this in with your xmh resources. If you already have
- X user defined buttons, then you may need to renumber the
- X buttons in this resource file.
- X
- Xxmh-command.el
- X Byte compile this file and put it in your GNU emacs load-path.
- X
- Xxmhcommand
- Xxmhemacs
- X Put these somewhere in your path.
- X
- X
- XOnce you have installed these, restart the R5 xmh with the new
- Xresources. When you press the repl, forw or comp buttons
- Xan xemacs window will come up with your draft message.
- X
- XOnce you have written your mail, save it and exit GNU emacs (C-xC-c).
- XYou will be prompted if you want to send the current message.
- XIf you enter 'y', the message will be sent and the output will
- Xbe displayed in an emacs window (in case you use -verbose or -snoop).
- XThen you will be prompted to exit emacs. Enter 'y' when you are ready.
- X
- XIf you answered 'n' when prompted to send the message,
- Xthen the draft message will be deleted and emacs will exit.
- X
- XYou can modify the Xmh.ad resources to add more buttons.
- XAny MH command which accepts "+folder msg" can be used
- X(e.g. a replx shell script which includes the body of the
- Xmessage being replied to can be bound to a replx button)
- X
- X
- XAndrew Wason
- Xaw at bae.bellcore.com
- END_OF_FILE
- if test 1269 -ne `wc -c <'README'`; then
- echo shar: \"'README'\" unpacked with wrong size!
- fi
- # end of 'README'
- fi
- if test -f 'Xmh.ad' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then
- echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'Xmh.ad'\"
- else
- echo shar: Extracting \"'Xmh.ad'\" \(457 characters\)
- sed "s/^X//" >'Xmh.ad' <<'END_OF_FILE'
- XXmh*CommandButtonCount: 3
- X
- XXmh*commandBox.button1.label: repl
- XXmh*commandBox.button1.translations:\
- X #override\n\
- X <Btn1Up>: XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y repl) unset()
- X
- XXmh*commandBox.button2.label: forw
- XXmh*commandBox.button2.translations:\
- X #override\n\
- X <Btn1Up>: XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y forw) unset()
- X
- XXmh*commandBox.button3.label: comp
- XXmh*commandBox.button3.translations:\
- X #override\n\
- X <Btn1Up>: XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand n comp) unset()
- END_OF_FILE
- if test 457 -ne `wc -c <'Xmh.ad'`; then
- echo shar: \"'Xmh.ad'\" unpacked with wrong size!
- fi
- # end of 'Xmh.ad'
- fi
- if test -f 'xmh-command.el' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then
- echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmh-command.el'\"
- else
- echo shar: Extracting \"'xmh-command.el'\" \(1294 characters\)
- sed "s/^X//" >'xmh-command.el' <<'END_OF_FILE'
- X;;; These functions are for use with xemacs and xmh.
- X;;; The R5 xmh has a new action - XmhShellCommand which executes
- X;;; a shell command with the current msg as an arg.
- X;;; By executing something like:
- X;;; XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand repl)
- X;;; you can use xemacs as your editor with xmh.
- X;;;
- X;;; The following elisp functions perform the basic whatnowproc functionality
- X;;; (quitting and deleting, sending)
- X;;;
- X;;; Andrew Wason aw at bae.bellcore.com
- X
- X
- X;;; Override C-xC-c
- X(define-key indented-text-mode-map "\C-x\C-c" 'xmh-command-send-or-delete)
- X
- X
- X(setq mhdraft (getenv "mhdraft")) ; save the filename of the draft
- X
- X
- X(find-file mhdraft) ; load the draft letter
- X(indented-text-mode)
- X(setq draft-buffer (current-buffer)) ; save the buffer the draft is in
- X
- X
- X(defun xmh-command-send-or-delete ()
- X "Prompt to send or delete letter, then quit."
- X (interactive)
- X (set-buffer draft-buffer)
- X (if (y-or-n-p "Send message? ")
- X (progn
- X (save-buffer) ; save the draft buffer
- X (message "Sending...")
- X (pop-to-buffer "MH mail delivery"); pop to a buffer for "send" output
- X (erase-buffer)
- X (call-process "send" nil t t mhdraft) ; call MH "send"
- X (if (y-or-n-p "Exit? ")
- X (kill-emacs))) ; exit emacs
- X (delete-file mhdraft) ; delete the draft letter
- X (kill-emacs))) ; exit emacs
- END_OF_FILE
- if test 1294 -ne `wc -c <'xmh-command.el'`; then
- echo shar: \"'xmh-command.el'\" unpacked with wrong size!
- fi
- # end of 'xmh-command.el'
- fi
- if test -f 'xmhcommand' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then
- echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmhcommand'\"
- else
- echo shar: Extracting \"'xmhcommand'\" \(669 characters\)
- sed "s/^X//" >'xmhcommand' <<'END_OF_FILE'
- X#!/bin/sh
- X# This shell should be invoked by the xmh XmhShellCommand() action as
- X# XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y repl)
- X# XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand n comp) etc.
- X# If the second arg is y, then the message list will be used.
- X
- X# We invoke the passed MH command on the identified message
- X# (we must strip the message number and folder from the pathname)
- X(if [ $1 = "y" ]
- Xthen
- X $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs +`dirname \`echo $3 | \
- X sed "s;\\\`mhpath +\\\`/;;"\`` `basename $3`
- X
- X# You can use this more readable version instead if you have ksh
- X# $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs +$(dirname $(echo $3 | \
- X# sed "s;$(mhpath +)/;;")) $(basename $3)
- X
- Xelse
- X $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs
- Xfi)&
- END_OF_FILE
- if test 669 -ne `wc -c <'xmhcommand'`; then
- echo shar: \"'xmhcommand'\" unpacked with wrong size!
- fi
- chmod +x 'xmhcommand'
- # end of 'xmhcommand'
- fi
- if test -f 'xmhemacs' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then
- echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmhemacs'\"
- else
- echo shar: Extracting \"'xmhemacs'\" \(116 characters\)
- sed "s/^X//" >'xmhemacs' <<'END_OF_FILE'
- X#!/bin/sh
- X# Invoke xemacs and load the xmh-command.el stuff.
- X# xmhemacs is used by xmhcommand
- Xxemacs -l xmh-command
- END_OF_FILE
- if test 116 -ne `wc -c <'xmhemacs'`; then
- echo shar: \"'xmhemacs'\" unpacked with wrong size!
- fi
- chmod +x 'xmhemacs'
- # end of 'xmhemacs'
- fi
- echo shar: End of shell archive.
- exit 0
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: babyl2mh.pl
- From: Vivek Khera <khera at cs.duke.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- #!/usr/gnu/bin/perl
- # incorporate an RMAIL babyl file into an MH folder
- #
- # usage: babyl2mh +folder babyl-file
- #
- # V. Khera <khera at cs.duke.edu> 17-JUL-1991
-
- # where to find rcvstore
- $rcvstore = "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore";
-
- #
- # pull out command line args
- #
- die "usage: babyl2mh +folder babyl-file\n" unless @ARGV == 2;
-
- $folder = shift;
- # make sure folder name starts with a "+"
- (substr($folder,0,1) eq "+") || (substr($folder,0,0) = "+");
- $bfname = shift;
-
- print "Incorporating RMAIL file $bfname into MH folder $folder\n";
-
- #
- # read in babyl file.
- #
- $/ = "\037"; # this separates the records in a babyl file
- $* = 1; # records are multi-lines
-
- open(BABYL,$bfname) || die "Couldn't open $bfname\n";
-
- $_ = <BABYL>; # discard header.
-
- $msgnum = 0;
-
- while (<BABYL>) {
- chop; # get rid of delimeter
- s/\f(.|\n)*\*\*\* EOOH \*\*\*\n//; # remove duplicate header information
- open(RCVSTORE,"|" . $rcvstore . " $folder");
- print RCVSTORE $_;
- $msgnum++;
- print "Message $msgnum done.\n";
- }
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: inco - babyl to MH converter
- From: Juergen Nickelsen <nickel at cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- #!/bin/sh
- # Usage: inco [from [folder]]
- # "from" defaults to $HOME/Mail/outbound, "folder" to +inbox.
-
- lispfile=/tmp/inco.$$.el
- input=${1-$HOME/Mail/outbound}
- tmpmbox=/tmp/inc.$$.mbox
- folder=${2-+inbox}
-
- if [ $# -ge 3 ]; then
- echo Usage: `basename $0` [ from [ folder ]]
- exit 2
- fi
-
- trap "rm -f $lispfile $tmpmbox ; exit 1" 1 2 15
-
- touch $tmpmbox
- chmod 600 $tmpmbox
-
- echo '(rmail-input "'$input'")
- (rmail-last-message)
- (setq last (rmail-what-message))
- (rmail-show-message 1)
- (while (not (equal (rmail-what-message) last))
- (rmail-output "'$tmpmbox'")
- (rmail-delete-forward nil))
- (rmail-output "'$tmpmbox'")
- (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
- ' > $lispfile
-
- emacs -batch -l $lispfile
- inc -file $tmpmbox $folder
-
- > $input
- rm -f $lispfile $tmpmbox
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: t2h - add hyperlinks to message viewed
- From: TANAKA Tomoyuki <tanaka at step.mother.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:35:43 -0600
-
- #! /bin/sed -f
- # "t2h" by TT news:alt.tanaka-tomoyuki http://listen.to/TT
- # USE: t2h <file.txt >file.html
- # Or: show | t2h | lynx -
-
- s/&/\&/g
- s/</\</g
- s/>/\>/g
-
- s/http:[^ "&) ]*/<a href="&">&<\/a>/g
- s/news:[^ "&) ]*/<a href="&">&<\/a>/g
- s/ftp:[^ "&) ]*/<a href="&">&<\/a>/g
- s/telnet:[^ "&) ]*/<a href="&">&<\/a>/g
-
- 1i\
- <PRE>
-
- $a\
- </PRE>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: srvrsmtp.c patch
- From: Paul Pomes <ppomes at Qualcomm.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800
-
- >From the 5.67 sources:
-
- *** srvrsmtp.c- Mon Feb 22 12:25:54 1993
- --- srvrsmtp.c Mon Feb 22 12:29:09 1993
- ***************
- *** 384,389 ****
- --- 384,395 ----
- message("250", "Reset state");
- if (InChild)
- finis();
- +
- + /* clean up a bit if running in parent */
- + hasmail = FALSE;
- + dropenvelope(CurEnv);
- + CurEnv = newenvelope(CurEnv);
- + CurEnv->e_flags = BlankEnvelope.e_flags;
- break;
-
- case CMDVRFY: /* vrfy -- verify address */
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: IRIX config file
- From: Jack Repenning <jackr at informix.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 1995 02:35:41 GMT
-
- # Irix 5.3 (based on examples/sys5r4)
- bboards on
- bin /usr/local/bin/mh
- cc cc
- ccoptions -g
- chown /bin/chown
- curses -lcurses
- etc /usr/local/lib/mh
- ldoptions -L/usr/local/lib/mh
- mail /usr/mail
- mailgroup: mail
- manuals local
- mts sendmail/smtp
- pop on
- popdir /usr/local/bin
- ranlib off
- #sharedlib sys5
- #slibdir /usr/local/lib/mh
- signal void
- sprintf int
- options BIND
- options DBMPWD
- options DUMB
- options FOLDPROT='"0700"'
- options MHE
- options MHRC
- options MIME
- options MORE='"/usr/bsd/more"'
- options MSGPROT='"0600"'
- options RENAME
- options RPATHS
- options SBACKUP='"\\#"'
- #options SENDMTS
- options SGI
- #options SMTP
- options SOCKETS
- options SVR4
- options SYS5
- options SYS5DIR
- options UNISTD
- options _XOPEN_SOURCE
- options VSPRINTF
-
- From: David Paschich <dpassage at bigbook.com>
- Date: 23 Apr 96 21:27:12 GMT
-
- # @(#)$Id: mh.faq,v 2001.07.2.1 2001/07/23 06:33:32 wohler Exp $
- # a 4.2BSD VAX system running SendMail
- bin /usr/local/bin/mh
- bboards off
- etc /usr/local/lib/mh
- mail /var/mail
- manuals local
- mandir /usr/local/man
- chown /sbin/chown
- ranlib off
- mts sendmail
- signal void
- options BIND LOCKF FOLDPROT='"0700"' MHE MHRC MORE='"/usr/bsd/more"'
- options MSGPROT='"0600"' RPATHS SENDMTS SGI SMTP SOCKETS SYS5
- options TYPESIG="void" ncr MIME VSPRINTF UNISTD SYSVR4 SYS5DIR
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: HP-UX 10.20 config file
- From: Marko Heikkinen <hema at iki.fi>
- Date: 06 Jan 1997 17:19:07 +0000
-
- bin /opt/mail/bin
- bboards on
- etc /opt/mail/lib/mh
- editor prompter
- remove mv -f
- mail /var/mail
- mandir /opt/man
- manuals standard
- chown /bin/chown
- cc cc
- ccoptions +DA1.0 +DS1.0
- curses -lcurses
- mts sendmail/smtp
- pop off
- slibdir: /opt/mail/lib
- options SYS5
- options MHE
- options MIME
- options ATZ
- options BIND
- options MHE
- options MIME
- options ATZ
- options BIND
- options MHE
- options MHRC
- options MORE='"/opt/gnu/bin/less"'
- options MSGPROT='"0600"'
- options NDIR
- options NTOHLSWAP
- options POPUUMBOX
- options SOCKETS
- options SYS5
- options TZNAME
- options TYPESIG=void
- options VSPRINTF
- options WHATNOW
- options _STRINGS
- signal void
- curses -lcurses -ltermlib
- sprintf int
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)
- From: Jerry Peek <jpeek at jpeek.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 1995 18:51:24 GMT
-
- Here's a simple-minded Bourne shell version. It uses
- "scan" to get the message number and message-id of each message. If
- a message has the same message-id as the previous message, the
- script adds its message number to the "remove" shell variable.
-
-
- #!/bin/sh
- lastmsgid=hahahaha
- remove=
- scan -width 300 -format '%(msg) %{message-id}' |
- while read msg msgid; do
- if [ "$msgid" = "$lastmsgid" ]; then
- remove="$remove $msg"
- else
- lastmsgid="$msgid"
- fi
- done
- rmm $remove
-
- That's pretty simple-minded. For example, if the $remove variable
- gets too big, your system may complain. And I'm sure there are some
- more-efficient ways to find the list of duplicate message-ids. But
- that's the idea.
-
- Subject: Removing duplicate messages (Perl)
- From: rtor at ansa.co.uk (Owen Rees)
- Date: 20 Nov 1995 12:39:47 GMT
-
- I wrote a perl script to do this some time ago. All the usual dire
- warnings about destructive technology apply - take a backup, do it on
- a copy, try it on a small test case first etc. Don't use this script
- unless you are prepared to accept the consequences.
-
- #!/usr/local/bin/perl
-
- $version = "rmmdup 1";
-
- if (@ARGV == 0) { $folder = ""; }
- elsif (@ARGV == 1) { $folder = $ARGV[0];
- unless ( $folder =~ /^\+.+$/ )
- { die "usage $0 [+folder]\n"; };
- }
- else { die "usage $0 [+folder]\n"; };
-
- $rmmlist = "";
-
- open (scan, "scan $folder -format '%(msg) %{message-id}'|");
- while (<scan>)
- { if ( ($msg,$msgid) = /^(\d+) (<.*>)$/)
- { if ($msgs{$msgid})
- { print "$msg duplicates $msgs{$msgid}\n";
- $rmmlist .= " $msg";
- }
- else { $msgs{$msgid} = $msg; };
- };
- };
- if ( $rmmlist ) { exec "rmm $folder $rmmlist"; };
- exit;
-
- Local Variables:
- mode: outline
- outline-regexp: "^Subject:"
- fill-prefix: " "
- End:
-