Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!faqserv From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,news.answers,comp.answers Subject: MH Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with Answers Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: 22 Apr 1994 11:18:52 GMT Organization: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany Lines: 1693 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: 5 Jun 1994 11:15:52 GMT Message-ID: Reply-To: Bill Wohler NNTP-Posting-Host: bloom-picayune.mit.edu Summary: This document answers Frequently Asked Questions about MH, a sophisticated mail interface. It should be read by anyone who wishes to post to comp.mail.mh. Keywords: FAQ mh mail question answer pop slocal letter signature draft message folder xmh olmh vmail vmailtool comp repl forw scan smtp bind mh-e X-Last-Updated: 1993/03/20 Originator: faqserv@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu comp.mail.mh:2286 news.answers:18509 comp.answers:5035 Archive-name: mh-faq Last-modified: $Date: 1993/03/20 16:13:34 $ Version: $Revision: 93.3 $ 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 last bit of question 3 so that you can get a copy yourself. Please do not post an answer when someone posts a frequently asked question, as I will always e-mail a reply. This ensures that everybody gets their question answered fully and eliminates unnecessary traffic in this newsgroup. Your comments, additions and fixes to this list are welcome: please send them to Bill Wohler . Subject: Table of Contents From: Preface Legend: + new, - deleted, ! changed Introductory 1. Why should I use MH? 2. What is the current version/status of MH? 3. Where can I get MH? 4. What references exist for MH? !5. What other MH software is available? 6. How can I print a MH manual? 7. How should I report bugs? 8. How can I convert from my mailer to MH? Building MH 10. What machines does MH run on? 11. How do I build MH? 12. What options should I use? 13. Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available" 14. Where can I get POP3? 15. What do I do if scan shows the wrong date? 16. Why slocal writes messages to system maildrop that from(1) can't read. 17. Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one? 18. Does MH support IMAP2 (RFC 1064)? 19. Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc and not slocal? Using MH 30. Where can I read about slocal and the format of the .maildelivery file? 31. How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"? 32. How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself? 33. How would one go about reading usenet with MH? 34. Can I append MH messages (ie. +inbox/1) to a UNIX mailbox format file? 35. How can I include my signature? 36. What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed". 37. How do I call my editor with arguments? !38. How do I debug my .maildelivery file? 39. How can I digestify the messages in a folder for mail to another user? 40. Can I run my message through a program (ie. ispell) before sending? 41. Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file? 42. Is there documentation for mh-e? 43. How can I change my return address? 44. How can I change my From header? 45. What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part". +46. How can I search through multiple folders? +47. Why isn't slocal working? +48. Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender already specified" Xmh 50. How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor? 51. Does xmh support subfolders? 52. How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh? Appendix Glossary, Acknowledgements, Warranty Switching xmh's editor babyl2mh.pl inco Subject: Viewing This Article From: Preface To skip to a particular question numbered xx, use "/^F.*xx" with most pagers. In GNU Emacs type "M-C-s ^F.*xx", (or C-r to search backwards), followed by ESC to end the search. "-xx" is often sufficient. 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 "C-c C-s" (show-subtree) and "M-x show-all" Numbers in square brackets denote the month and year of the last update. Subject: Why should I use MH? From: Intro-1 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 filesystem 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. --Jerry Peek Subject: What is the current version/status of MH. From: Intro-2 The current version of MH is 6.8. 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 MH now works with Kerberos as well. In addition, a new program called mhparam extracts arguments from .mh_profile which is useful in shellscripts. Please see the file CHANGES in the distribution for more details. [1.93] Subject: Where can I get MH? From: Intro-3 MH comes standard with: Control Data Corp. CDC4680-MP . . . EMH Version 1.4.2 (modified MH) DEC Ultrix 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . MH Version 6.5 DEC Ultrix 4.2A . . . . . . . . . . MH Version 6.7.1 Evans and Sutherland ES/OS 2.3 . . MH Version 6.6 IBM PS/2 AIX 1.2.x . . . . . . . . MH Version 6.4 IBM RISC System/6000 AIX 3.x . . . MH Version 6.6 MIPS RISC/OS 4.52 . . . . . . . . . MH Version 6.6 Tektronix UTek . . . . . . . . . . MH (version unknown) Table maintained by James R. Hamilton [9.92]. via anonymous ftp: [1.93] FTP Site: IP Address: Path/File Name: Size: ----------------------------------------------------------------- ftp.ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1] mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z 1.8MB louie.udel.edu [128.175.1.3] portal/mh-6.8.tar.Z 1.8MB ftp.uu.net [192.48.96.9] mail/mh/tar/mh-6.8.tar.Z-split/ 256K*7 README, part01, ..., part08 Or use archie to find a site near you. [12.92] via uucp: The following shell script is one example of how to queue jobs for downloading the files from UUNET via UUCP: #!/bin/sh SRC=uunet!~/mail/mh/tar/mh-6.8.tar.Z-split DST=/usr/spool/uucppublic/mh uucp -d -r $SRC/README $DST/README for f in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 do uucp -d -r $SRC/part0$f $DST/part0$f done UUNET subscribers would then call us normally using uucico. Others can use UUNET's 900 number to access UUNET via anonymous uucp. The number is 1-900-468-7727. The login name is "uucp" and there is no password. The following is a sample Systems/L.sys entry: uunet Any ACU 19200 19004687727 "" \d\r ogin:-\r-ogin: uucp The modems on the 900 lines are Telebit WorldBlazers. These modems negotiate V.32bis, V.32, 2400, 1200, and last with (Turbo)PEP tones. The cost is 50 cents per minute (as of Jan 93) which will appear on your next phone bill. For more information about the 900 service, retrieve uunet!~/help or send e-mail to postmaster@uunet.uu.net (uunet!postmaster). -- Eric Ziegast via mail: Send a note to either mail-server@nluug.nl or archive-server@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@doc.ic.ac.uk. Send a note whose body contains "help" to this address. [12.92] Send a note to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com whose body contains "help" on a line by itself get information on getting ftp sources by mail. Also include the lines "connect" and "dir /pub/mail/ua/mh" to see which files are available local to decwrl. Please do this as a last resort only. [1.93] via U.S. mail: You can send $75 US to the address below. This covers the cost of a 6250 BPI 9-track magtape, handling, and ship- ping. In addition, you'll get a laser-printed hard-copy of the entire MH documentation set. Be sure to include your USPS address with your check. Checks must be drawn on U.S. funds and should be made payable to: Regents of the University of California The distribution address is: Univeristy of California at Irvine Office of Academic Computing 360 Computer Science Irvine, CA 92717 USA +1 714 856 5153 Sadly, if you just want the hard-copies of the documenta- tion, you still have to pay the $75. The tar image has the documentation source (the manual is in roff format, but the rest are in TeX format). Postscript formatted versions of the TeX papers are available, as are crude tty-conversions of those papers. [1.93] Subject: What references exist for MH? From: Intro-4 Book: MH & xmh: E-mail for Users & Programmers. Second edition. Jerry Peek. ISBN 1-56592-027-9. $29.95. 728 pages. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Book Orders: US and Canada: 800-998-9938. Fax: 707-829-0104. References to "the MH book" in this document refer to the second edition of this book (section numbers for the first edition appear in parenthesis). To get a list of non-US distributors, send a note to nuts@ora.com or call +1-707-829-0515. Examples from this book are in: ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] published/oreilly/nutshell/MHxmh/MHxmh2.tar.Z 54KB 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 e-mail in general. [12.92] The Internet Message. Marshall T. Rose ISBN 0-13-092941-7. 396 pages. P T R Prentice Hall Usenet: comp.mail.mh (gatewayed to MH-users) Mailing lists: General questions/discussion: MH-users@ics.uci.edu (gatewayed to comp.mail.mh). MH developers and maintainers: MH-workers@ics.uci.edu. Please use MH-users-request and MH-workers-request to request an addition or deletion. MH-users archives: ftp.ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1] mh/mh-users/* The files are in packf(1) format, compressed with compress(1). To get them, use anonymous ftp and set "binary" transfer mode. mh-users.86.Z 8549 mh-users.86.scan.Z 771 mh-users.87.Z 55449 mh-users.87.scan.Z 3679 mh-users.88.Z 182805 mh-users.88.scan.Z 11339 mh-users.89.Z 89151 mh-users.89.scan.Z 5522 mh-users.90.Z 402470 mh-users.90.scan.Z 21551 mh-users.91.Z 878763 mh-users.91.scan.Z 36992 mh-users.92.Z 1281585 mh-users.92.scan.Z 44975 mh-users.mbox: current archive, uncompressed. There are directions in the README file. 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 This document: via anonymous ftp: pit-manager.mit.edu [18.172.1.27] /pub/usenet/news.answers/mh-faq.Z ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] /archive/usenet/news.answers/mh-faq.Z ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] /pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/mh-faq via mail: Each of the following addresses is following by commands which should be included as the body of the message. mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu send usenet/comp.mail.mh/mh-faq mail-server@cs.ruu.nl send pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/mh-faq Subject: ! What other MH software is available? From: Intro-5 vmh 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. --James Perkins [1.93] xmh 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. --James Perkins xmh is part of the standard X Window System distribution from MIT. Ultrix also ships dxmail which is similar. cs.utk.edu [128.169.201.1] pub/xmh.shar.Z 161KB Here's a version of xmh that includes MIME. --Harald Tveit Alvestrand [1.93] aun.uninett.no pub/unix/mixmh-0.2.tar.Z olmh Sun's Open Windows 3 comes with a demo for OLIT (Open Look Interface Toolkit, the Open Look wrapper to Xt) named olmh that does handle 3rd and subsequent levels of nesting of folders. --Dale Carstensen 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. mh-e 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. On-line 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 people familiar with Emacs Lisp will be able to further reconfigure mh-e beyond recognition. --Stephen Gildea Mh-e is part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution. Note that mh-e got much faster in Emacs 18.56. primost.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.115] pub/mh-e.el.Z 36KB mime-compose.el allows one to easily include MIME components into a mh-e message. --Marc Andreessen [1.93] archive.cis.ohio-state.edu pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/misc/mime-compose.el.Z 19KB vmail 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. --James Perkins [1.93] ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] comp.sources.unix/volume12/vmail/part0*.Z 46KB ftp.ucs.ubc.ca [137.82.27.61] pub/mh/vmail[1-3]of3.Z 58KB Or mail requests to James Perkins . [1.93] vmailtool If you have a Sun workstation, vmailtool may be for you. 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. --James Perkins [1.93] ftp.ucs.ubc.ca [137.82.27.61] pub/mh/vmailtool.Z 18KB or mail requests to James Perkins . [1.93] plum 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 find a copy on: convex.com [130.168.1.1] pub/plum/plum* 55KB or mail requests to Tom Christiansen . mmh 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 e-mail novice" and "sophisticated user". Hooks are provided to allow the user to customize and add new commands. ftp.eos.ncsu.edu [152.1.9.25] /pub/bill.tar.Z metamail Metamail is a package that can be used to convert virtually ANY mail-reading program on UNIX into a multimedia mail-reading program. It is an extremely generic implementation of MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), the proposed standard for multimedia 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 multimedia 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 --Nathaniel Borenstein thumper.bellcore.com [128.96.41.1] /pub/nsb/mm.tar.Z X.500 lookups If a name is enclosed in square brackets, when entering a destination address, ie: 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. --Andrew Waugh QueueMH QuemeMH is an e-mail based service request and tracking system based on the Rand Mail Handler. --Barbara Dyker [1.93] ftp.cs.colorado.edu pub/cs/sysadmin/utilities/queuemh.tar.Z QMH: 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. For more info, write to . [3.93] 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 --Jerry Peek The authorized distributor for PC/MH is: NEI, Inc. 210 Technology Drive, STE 210 Irvine, Ca 92718 Phone: +1 714-753-8588 FAX: +1 714-753-8593 Internet: info@netix.com --Shannon Yeh In addition, you might try Wollongong, to see if they have something you can get. Subject: How can I print a MH manual? From: Intro-6 To order a copy by mail, see the section on how to get MH by mail in "Where can I get MH?" Also, check "What references exist for MH?" To print your own copy, first obtain the MH sources ("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.ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1] mh/doc/tutorial.ps.Z 64KB mh/doc/ADMIN.ps.Z 57KB mh/doc/MH.ps.Z (man pages) 273KB ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] same files, but in dir mail/mh/doc Or, you can send a note to mail-server@nluug.nl with a body containing the following: send mail/mh/papers-ps/tutorial.ps.Z --Bill Wohler and Jos Vos [1.93] Subject: How should I report bugs? From: Intro-7 Mail them to Bug-MH@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. Subject: How can I convert from my mailer to MH? From: Intro-8 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'. Section D.4 (C.4) of the MH book 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). --Jerry Peek Vivek Khera rewrote this in Perl since the original script doesn't work for some people. See appendix "babyl2mh.pl." [1.93] Juergen Nickelsen provides yet another short script. He says, "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." [1.93] Use the following to convert a Babyl format file to UNIX mail format. --Barry A. Warsaw . durer.cme.nist.gov [129.6.32.4] pub/gnu/rmailtovm.el See also MH book appendix D (appendix C). Subject: What machines does MH run on? From: Building MH-10 If you have a computer running UNIX, you can probably run MH. --Jerry Peek Subject: How do I build MH? From: Building MH-11 By carefully reading the READ-ME in the root of the source hierarchy, one should not have any trouble building MH. Subject: What options should I use? From: Building MH-12 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 makes the point that one should use this option carefully since it requires a roboust 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 mtstailor. ATZ: makes your timezones print like "EST" instead of "-0500". Much prettier. --Stephen Gildea However, Tony Landells 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 e-mail 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. [12.92] Subject: Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available" From: Building MH-13 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. 3. Your mtstailor has its "servers:" pointing to a non-existant machine or a machine which is a) not reachable or b) not running the sendmail daemon. --Peter Marvit Subject: Where can I get POP3? From: Building MH-14 MH6.7 (and earlier versions too) include a server for version 3 of POP. Subject: What do I do if scan shows the wrong date? From: Building MH-15 Upgrade to MH 6.8. [1.93] Subject: Why slocal writes messages to system maildrop that from(1) can't read. From: Building MH-16 Upgrade to MH 6.8 and set the RPATHS option. Better yet, use a more MH-like command instead: "scan -file $MAIL". [1.93] Subject: Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one? From: Building MH-17 I carefully reconfigured and rebuilt MH from scratch and the problem went away. --Larry McVoy Subject: Does MH support IMAP2 (RFC 1064)? From: Building MH-18 No. MH only supports retrieving mail using POP3. POP3 is on the "standards track"--it is now an elective Internet Draft Standard (see RFC1280 for more details). At this point, IMAP[23] are "experimental, limited use" protocols; it is unlikely that MH will support them. --John Romine Subject: Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc but not slocal? From: Building MH-19 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-writeable. 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. --John Romine [1.93] Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent. Archie can help you find where they are kept. Subject: Where can I read about slocal and the format of the .maildelivery file? From: Using MH-30 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 "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +lists/mh-users" cc mh-users | A "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +lists/mh-users" to babble | R "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +lists/babble" cc babble | R "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +lists/babble" default - > ? /usr/spool/mail/wohler Your .forward file may look like (quotes necessary): "| /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal -user your_login" In some implentations, the "-user your_login" is not needed. If not, manually running slocal with the flag will produce an error. See also chapter 11 in the MH book. Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent. Archie can help you find where they are kept. Subject: How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"? From: Using MH-31 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. --Alan Thew , Mike Schwager , James T Perkins [1.93] See also MH book sections 6.7.4, 6.7.5, 9.4.1 (9.3.1). Subject: How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself? From: Using MH-32 Add these two lines to your MH profile file: Alternate-Mailboxes: user@host1, user@host2, ... repl: -nocc me 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 - Add an "Fcc: foldername" to the headers of messages you send. That will drop a copy of the message in the folder "foldername". You can do this for *all* MH messages you send (not just with repl) by putting an "Fcc:" entry in your personal copy of the files "components", "replcomps", and "forwcomps" in your MH directory. (If you make a "distcomps" file, it needs "Resent-Fcc:".) For more info, see the man pages comp(1), repl(1), forw(1), dist(1) and mh-mail(5). --Jerry Peek 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. --Bill Wohler See also MH book sections 6.7.2, 8.6. This 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, by listing the name of that mailing list in your alternate mailboxes. --Alec Wolman Subject: How would one go about reading Usenet with MH? From: Using MH-33 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. --Stephen Gildea You can save articles in the news readers for later perusal with MH. First, create a symbolic link from your mail directory (ie. usenet) to your news directory (ie. "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 + . . See also MH book section 8.7. Subject: Can I append MH messages (ie. +inbox/1) to a UNIX mailbox format file? From: Using MH-34 Yes, see support/general/packmbox.sh in the distribution. [1.93] Subject: How can I include my signature? From: Using MH-35 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@uunet.uu.net UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast ~/Mail/replcomps body:component="> ",compwidth=2 :-- :Eric Ziegast ziegast@uunet.uu.net :UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast To use the replcomps 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 A. Truesdell and Tom Wilmore have sample scripts to do these. 1c) Section 13.13 of the MH book lists mysend, a sendproc script to process a message after "What now? send" (see "What references exist for MH" to see where the book's examples can be ftped from). --Jerry Peek [9.92] 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) And if you use Emacs with mh-e, C-c C-s will append the signature. --Eric W. Ziegast & Hardy Mayer except where noted. 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 everytime 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] Ask Tom Christiansen for more details. Subject: What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed". From: Using MH-36 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. --John Romine Subject: How do I call my editor with arguments? From: Using MH-37 Set your editor (in .mh_profile) to the following shellscript: #/bin/sh $* exit 0 --John Romine You might find it useful to make $EDITOR, or to use different arguments depending on your EDITOR environment variable. --Ray Nickson Subject: ! How do I debug my .maildelivery file? From: Using MH-38 Use as many of the following as necessary. Put a message into a file and call slocal directly on it. /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal -user $USER -verbose -debug < test-msg Modify your .forward to look like: "|/bin/sh -c 'exec >> /tmp/out 2>&1; /usr/local/lib/mh/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; /usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore +foo" The previous examples are broken up for readability; the text must appear on one line. See also MH book section 11.11. [3.93] Subject: How can I digestify the messages in a folder for mail to another user? From: Using MH-39 How about: forw [-digest tmp] [-form forwcomps] [-filter mhl.digest] messages +folder These messages can be un-digestified :-) by the MH burst(1) program. --Jerry Peek and Bill Wohler See also MH book sections 6.8, 7.9. Subject: Can I run my message through a program (ie. ispell) before sending? From: Using MH-40 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 6.2.1 of the MH book. --Jerry Peek Subject: Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file? From: Using MH-41 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: Is there documentation for mh-e? From: Using MH-42 Yes, sort of. Run "C-h m" (describe-mode) in both scan and letter modes to see which commands and variables are available. Browsing the code is also helpful. Subject: How can I change my return address? From: Using MH-43 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 /usr/local/lib/mh into your Mail directory and add a line like the following after the Subject header replacing my address with your address: Reply-To: wohler@sap-ag.de [12.92] Subject: How can I change my From header? From: Using MH-44 If you're just interested in changing the hostname, add a line to $LIB/mtstailor: localname: desired_host_name --Bill Wisner [12.92] 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, but (almost) no one cares about the "Sender:" header anyway. --Jerry Peek [12.92] Subject: What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part". From: Using MH-45 You may find that post returns the following message: post: bad address 'Mr. Foo Bar ' - 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" (Mr. Foo Bar) (Mr. Foo Bar) fb@somewhere.edu --Owen Rees [1.93] Subject: + How can I search through multiple folders? From: Using MH-46 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 7.2.9, 7.8.3. [3.93] Subject: + Why isn't slocal working? From: Using MH-47 If slocal doesn't appear to be doing anything, run the following /usr/local/lib/mh/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?" [3.93] Subject: + Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender already specified" From: Using MH-48 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. --Paul Pomes [3.93] Subject: How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor? From: Xmh-50 The modifications to xmh to support an external editor, annotations, and an append command can be found in the these places. --Bob Ellison export.lcs.mit.edu R5fixes/xmh.editor/* ftp.sei.cmu.edu pub/xmh 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". --Andrew Wason Subject: Does xmh support subfolders? From: Xmh-51 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. --Steve Malowany But: The R5 version of xmh does *not* handle nested sub-folders. If you create a folder as 'grab/some/bandwidth', xmh displays this foldername 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. --John Cooper See also MH book section 15.6.2 (14.6.2). Subject: How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh? From: Xmh-52 Include the following line in your ~/app-defaults/XMh file: Xmh*replyInsertFilter: "sed 's/^/> /'" --Len Makin or, Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter: /usr/local/lib/mh/mhl -form repl.filter 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. --Andy Linton See also MH book sections 15.1.4 (14.1.4), 16.3.3 (15.2.3). Subject: Glossary From: Appendix MH Mail Handler POP3 Post Office Protocol, RFC 1225 MMDF Multi-channel Memo Distribution Facility MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Subject: Acknowledgements From: Appendix I'd like to thank the following people for providing ideas on the layout of this article: Joe Wells Richard M. Stallman David Elliott Tom Christiansen Eugene N. Miya We are also grateful to the individuals mentioned below and 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. Kim F. Storm Edward Vielmetti Subject: Warranty From: Appendix [The following statement epitomizes the ridiculous state of affairs in our country (I'm an American) and can be ignored outside the US...] No Warranty: Because this article is provided free of charge as a service to comp.mail.mh readers, we provide absolutely no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable state law. This article is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Should the information prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. Subject: Switching xmh's editor From: Appendix #! /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 '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@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 : XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y repl) unset() X XXmh*commandBox.button2.label: forw XXmh*commandBox.button2.translations:\ X #override\n\ X : XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y forw) unset() X XXmh*commandBox.button3.label: comp XXmh*commandBox.button3.translations:\ X #override\n\ X : 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@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: Appendix #!/usr/gnu/bin/perl # incorporate an RMAIL babyl file into an MH folder # # usage: babyl2mh +folder babyl-file # # V. Khera 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"; $_ = ; # discard header. $msgnum = 0; while () { 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 From: Appendix #!/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: srvrsmtp.c patch From: Appendix >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 */ Local Variables: mode: outline outline-regexp: "^Subject:" fill-prefix: " " eval: (progn (setq buffer-read-only nil) (hide-body)) End: