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- Subject: What's New in the MH FAQ
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.answers,news.answers
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 1994 01:33:37 GMT
-
- Archive-name: mh-faq/contents
- Last-modified: $Date: 1994/11/08 04:29:12 $
- Version: $Revision: 94.11 $
- Posting-Frequency: biweekly
-
- Folks,
-
- The last time the FAQ was updated was on or around 7 November 1994.
-
- This article is posted bi-weekly and contains a summary of recent
- changes, the table of contents, and instructions for obtaining the
- FAQ.
-
- 7 November 1994
-
- The mh-faq archive is now a directory that contains part1--the
- FAQ--and contents--this file. Files that are available via
- anonymous ftp are now listed as URLs. Fixed Tom Christiansen's
- address.
-
- New Questions
- 2.7 How can I build MH on Solaris? Hooray!
- 2.8 How can I build MH on Linux?
- 3.6 Can I get show not to run "less" so much on MIME messages?
-
- Changed Questions
- Preface Viewing This Article Getting IP address by mail
- 1.3 Where can I get MH? New address at Irvine
- 1.4 What references exist...? FAQ on Web, new FAQ locations, signature FAQ
- 1.5 What other MH software...? Added mhunify
- 3.2 ...reading Usenet with MH? Added more ways, mail-to-news gateways, mhunify
- 3.5 ...show all of MIME msg..? Way to show ISO 8859-1 character set
- 5.4 ... include my signature? Reference Signature FAQ
- 5.6 ... digestify messages...? Can use forw -mime
- 6.4 ...no servers available" Workarounds presented
- Appendix Glossary MIME RFC numbers given
- Appendix Copyright Wording fixed
-
- 20 August 1994
-
- This was a fairly major revamp of the format. It's not HTMLized
- yet, but the first step was taken: it's now broken up into more
- sections which should make it easier to find the answer to your
- question.
-
- Another new thing is that I'll be posting this list bi-weekly so
- that new and old readers alike will have a Table of Contents readily
- at hand.
-
- Hope you like it.
-
- New questions
-
- 3.5 Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?
- 4.3 Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?"
- 5.9 How can I save a copy of all messages I send?
- 5.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified?
- 6.6 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [BHST] no socket opened"
- 6.7 How do I fix the "X-Authentication-Warning" header?
- 7.1 What mail filters are available?
-
- Changed questions
-
- 1.3 Where can I get MH? Removed IP addr; MH tbl & UUCP info
- 1.4 What references exist for MH? Please use ftp.uu.net, not ora.com
- 1.5 What MH software is available? Added exmh; new mh-e
- 2.5 Does MH support IMAP? Not directly, but this might help
-
- Table of Contents
-
- 1. Introduction
-
- 1.1 Why should I use MH?
- 1.2 What is the current version/status of MH?
- 1.3 Where can I get MH?
- 1.4 What references exist for MH?
- 1.5 What other MH software is available?
- 1.6 How can I print a MH manual?
- 1.7 How should I report bugs?
- 1.8 How can I convert from my mailer to MH?
- ______________
-
- 2. Building MH
-
- 2.1 What machines does MH run on?
- 2.2 How do I build MH?
- 2.3 What options should I use?
- 2.4 Where can I get POP3?
- 2.5 Does MH support IMAP?
- 2.6 Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc and not slocal?
- _____________________
-
- 3. Scanning & Reading
-
- 3.1 What do I do if scan shows the wrong date?
- 3.2 How would one go about reading usenet with MH?
- 3.3 How can I search through multiple folders?
- 3.4 Why don't MH format commands such as %(friendly) work?
- 3.5 Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?
- _________
-
- 4. Filing
-
- 4.1 Can I append MH messages (ie. +inbox/1) to a UNIX mailbox format file?
- 4.2 Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file?
- 4.3 Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?"
- _______________________
-
- 5. Composing & Replying
-
- 5.1 Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one?
- 5.2 How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"?
- 5.3 How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself?
- 5.4 How can I include my signature?
- 5.5 How do I call my editor with arguments?
- 5.6 How can I digestify the messages in a folder for mail to another user?
- 5.7 How can I change my return address?
- 5.8 How can I change my From header?
- 5.9 How can I save a copy of all messages I send?
- 5.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified?
- __________
-
- 6. Posting
-
- 6.1 What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed".
- 6.2 Can I run my message through a program (ie. ispell) before sending?
- 6.3 What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part".
- 6.4 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available"
- 6.5 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender
- already specified"
- 6.6 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [BHST] no socket opened"
- 6.7 How do I fix the "X-Authentication-Warning" header?
- _______________
-
- 7. Mail Filters
-
- 7.1 What mail filters are available?
- 7.2 Why slocal writes messages to system maildrop that from(1) can't read.
- 7.3 Where can I read about slocal and the format of the .maildelivery file?
- 7.4 How do I debug my .maildelivery file?
- 7.5 Why isn't slocal working?
- _______
-
- 8. mh-e
-
- 8.1 Is there documentation for mh-e?
- 8.2 How can mail aliases can be expanded in mh-e?
- ______
-
- 9. Xmh
-
- 9.1 How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor?
- 9.2 Does xmh support subfolders?
- 9.3 How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh?
-
- Appendix
-
- Glossary, Acknowledgements, Copyright and Warranty
- Switching xmh's editor
- babyl2mh.pl
- inco
-
- Obtaining the FAQ
-
- via WWW:
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mh-faq/top.html
-
- via anonymous ftp:
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mh-faq/part1
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/archive/usenet/news.answers/mh-faq/part1.Z
- ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/mh-faq/part1
-
- via mail:
- Each of the following addresses is following by commands which
- should be included as the body of the message.
-
- mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
- send /usenet/comp.mail.mh/mh-faq/part1
-
- mail-server@cs.ruu.nl
- send /pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/mh-faq/part1
-
- via uucp:
- uunet!/archive/usenet/news.answers/mh-faq/part1.Z
-
-