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2 | Last-modified: $Date: 1993/03/20 16:13:34 $ | |
3 | Version: $Revision: 93.3 $ | |
4 | ||
5 | This is a living list of frequently asked questions on the mailer | |
6 | user interface, Mail Handler, or MH. The point of this is to | |
7 | circulate existing information, and avoid rehashing old answers. | |
8 | Better to build on top than start again. Please read this document | |
9 | before ever posting to this newsgroup. | |
10 | ||
11 | This article is posted monthly. If it has already expired and | |
12 | you're not reading this, you can hope that you saved the last bit of | |
13 | question 3 so that you can get a copy yourself. | |
14 | ||
15 | Please do not post an answer when someone posts a frequently asked | |
16 | question, as I will always e-mail a reply. This ensures that | |
17 | everybody gets their question answered fully and eliminates | |
18 | unnecessary traffic in this newsgroup. | |
19 | ||
20 | Your comments, additions and fixes to this list are welcome: please | |
21 | send them to Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>. | |
22 | ||
23 | ||
24 | Subject: Table of Contents | |
25 | From: Preface | |
26 | ||
27 | Legend: + new, - deleted, ! changed | |
28 | ||
29 | Introductory | |
30 | ||
31 | 1. Why should I use MH? | |
32 | 2. What is the current version/status of MH? | |
33 | 3. Where can I get MH? | |
34 | 4. What references exist for MH? | |
35 | !5. What other MH software is available? | |
36 | 6. How can I print a MH manual? | |
37 | 7. How should I report bugs? | |
38 | 8. How can I convert from my mailer to MH? | |
39 | ||
40 | Building MH | |
41 | ||
42 | 10. What machines does MH run on? | |
43 | 11. How do I build MH? | |
44 | 12. What options should I use? | |
45 | 13. Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available" | |
46 | 14. Where can I get POP3? | |
47 | 15. What do I do if scan shows the wrong date? | |
48 | 16. Why slocal writes messages to system maildrop that from(1) can't read. | |
49 | 17. Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one? | |
50 | 18. Does MH support IMAP2 (RFC 1064)? | |
51 | 19. Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc and not slocal? | |
52 | ||
53 | Using MH | |
54 | ||
55 | 30. Where can I read about slocal and the format of the .maildelivery file? | |
56 | 31. How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"? | |
57 | 32. How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself? | |
58 | 33. How would one go about reading usenet with MH? | |
59 | 34. Can I append MH messages (ie. +inbox/1) to a UNIX mailbox format file? | |
60 | 35. How can I include my signature? | |
61 | 36. What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed". | |
62 | 37. How do I call my editor with arguments? | |
63 | !38. How do I debug my .maildelivery file? | |
64 | 39. How can I digestify the messages in a folder for mail to another user? | |
65 | 40. Can I run my message through a program (ie. ispell) before sending? | |
66 | 41. Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file? | |
67 | 42. Is there documentation for mh-e? | |
68 | 43. How can I change my return address? | |
69 | 44. How can I change my From header? | |
70 | 45. What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part". | |
71 | +46. How can I search through multiple folders? | |
72 | +47. Why isn't slocal working? | |
73 | +48. Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender | |
74 | already specified" | |
75 | ||
76 | Xmh | |
77 | ||
78 | 50. How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor? | |
79 | 51. Does xmh support subfolders? | |
80 | 52. How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh? | |
81 | ||
82 | Appendix | |
83 | ||
84 | Glossary, Acknowledgements, Warranty | |
85 | Switching xmh's editor | |
86 | babyl2mh.pl | |
87 | inco | |
88 | ||
89 | ||
90 | Subject: Viewing This Article | |
91 | From: Preface | |
92 | ||
93 | To skip to a particular question numbered xx, use "/^F.*xx" with most | |
94 | pagers. In GNU Emacs type "M-C-s ^F.*xx", (or C-r to search backwards), | |
95 | followed by ESC to end the search. "-xx" is often sufficient. | |
96 | ||
97 | To skip to new or changed questions, use "/^S.*[!+]" with most pagers and | |
98 | "M-C-s ^S.*[!+]" in GNU Emacs. | |
99 | ||
100 | This article is in digest format. Nn may have already broken this | |
101 | message into separate articles; if not, then type "G %". In rn, use | |
102 | ^G to skip sections. | |
103 | ||
104 | This article is treated as an outline when edited by GNU Emacs. | |
105 | Run "M-x describe-mode" to see available outline-mode commands. | |
106 | Useful commands are "C-c C-s" (show-subtree) and "M-x show-all" | |
107 | ||
108 | Numbers in square brackets denote the month and year of the last | |
109 | update. | |
110 | ||
111 | ||
112 | Subject: Why should I use MH? | |
113 | From: Intro-1 | |
114 | ||
115 | The MH message handling system is a set of electronic mail programs | |
116 | in the public domain. If your computer runs UNIX, it can probably | |
117 | run MH. | |
118 | ||
119 | The big difference between MH and most other "mail user agents" is | |
120 | that you can use MH from a UNIX shell prompt. In MH, each command | |
121 | is a separate program, and the shell is used as an interpreter. So, | |
122 | all the power of UNIX shells (pipes, redirection, history, aliases, | |
123 | and so on) works with MH--you don't have to learn a new interface. | |
124 | Other mail agents have their own command interpreter for their | |
125 | individual mail commands (although the mush mail agent simulates a | |
126 | UNIX shell). | |
127 | ||
128 | Because MH commands aren't part of a monolithic mail system, you can | |
129 | use them at any time; you don't have to start or quit the mail | |
130 | agent. Because you use them from a shell prompt, you can use all | |
131 | the power of the shell. | |
132 | ||
133 | If your shell has time-saving aliases or functions (and most do), | |
134 | you'll be able to use them with MH, of course. And because MH isn't | |
135 | a monolithic mail agent, you can use MH commands in UNIX shell | |
136 | scripts, or call them from programs in high-level languages like C. | |
137 | ||
138 | Unlike most mail agents, MH keeps each message in a separate file. | |
139 | The filename is the message number. To rearrange the messages, MH | |
140 | just changes the filenames. MH can use standard UNIX filesystem | |
141 | operations such as removing, copying and linking messages. The | |
142 | message files are grouped into one or more folders, which are | |
143 | actually UNIX directories. | |
144 | ||
145 | MH is free, powerful, flexible--and the basics are easy to learn. | |
146 | --Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com> | |
147 | ||
148 | ||
149 | Subject: What is the current version/status of MH. | |
150 | From: Intro-2 | |
151 | ||
152 | The current version of MH is 6.8. | |
153 | ||
154 | This version includes MIME, a multi-media MH package that implements | |
155 | the new IETF work on Multi-media 822 (MIME). This allows you to | |
156 | include things like audio, graphics, and the like, in your mail | |
157 | messages. --Marshall Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us> | |
158 | ||
159 | MH now works with Kerberos as well. | |
160 | ||
161 | In addition, a new program called mhparam extracts arguments from | |
162 | .mh_profile which is useful in shellscripts. | |
163 | ||
164 | Please see the file CHANGES in the distribution for more details. [1.93] | |
165 | ||
166 | ||
167 | Subject: Where can I get MH? | |
168 | From: Intro-3 | |
169 | ||
170 | MH comes standard with: | |
171 | ||
172 | Control Data Corp. CDC4680-MP . . . EMH Version 1.4.2 (modified MH) | |
173 | DEC Ultrix 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . MH Version 6.5 | |
174 | DEC Ultrix 4.2A . . . . . . . . . . MH Version 6.7.1 | |
175 | Evans and Sutherland ES/OS 2.3 . . MH Version 6.6 | |
176 | IBM PS/2 AIX 1.2.x . . . . . . . . MH Version 6.4 | |
177 | IBM RISC System/6000 AIX 3.x . . . MH Version 6.6 | |
178 | MIPS RISC/OS 4.52 . . . . . . . . . MH Version 6.6 | |
179 | Tektronix UTek . . . . . . . . . . MH (version unknown) | |
180 | Table maintained by James R. Hamilton <jrh@jrh.gts.org> [9.92]. | |
181 | ||
182 | via anonymous ftp: [1.93] | |
183 | FTP Site: IP Address: Path/File Name: Size: | |
184 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | |
185 | ftp.ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1] mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z 1.8MB | |
186 | louie.udel.edu [128.175.1.3] portal/mh-6.8.tar.Z 1.8MB | |
187 | ftp.uu.net [192.48.96.9] mail/mh/tar/mh-6.8.tar.Z-split/ 256K*7 | |
188 | README, part01, ..., part08 | |
189 | ||
190 | Or use archie to find a site near you. [12.92] | |
191 | ||
192 | via uucp: | |
193 | The following shell script is one example of how to queue jobs for | |
194 | downloading the files from UUNET via UUCP: | |
195 | ||
196 | #!/bin/sh | |
197 | SRC=uunet!~/mail/mh/tar/mh-6.8.tar.Z-split | |
198 | DST=/usr/spool/uucppublic/mh | |
199 | uucp -d -r $SRC/README $DST/README | |
200 | for f in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | |
201 | do | |
202 | uucp -d -r $SRC/part0$f $DST/part0$f | |
203 | done | |
204 | ||
205 | UUNET subscribers would then call us normally using uucico. Others | |
206 | can use UUNET's 900 number to access UUNET via anonymous uucp. The | |
207 | number is 1-900-468-7727. The login name is "uucp" and there is no | |
208 | password. The following is a sample Systems/L.sys entry: | |
209 | ||
210 | uunet Any ACU 19200 19004687727 "" \d\r ogin:-\r-ogin: uucp | |
211 | ||
212 | The modems on the 900 lines are Telebit WorldBlazers. These modems | |
213 | negotiate V.32bis, V.32, 2400, 1200, and last with (Turbo)PEP tones. | |
214 | The cost is 50 cents per minute (as of Jan 93) which will appear on | |
215 | your next phone bill. For more information about the 900 service, | |
216 | retrieve uunet!~/help or send e-mail to postmaster@uunet.uu.net | |
217 | (uunet!postmaster). -- Eric Ziegast <ziegast@uunet.uu.net> | |
218 | ||
219 | via mail: | |
220 | Send a note to either mail-server@nluug.nl or | |
221 | archive-server@germany.eu.net with a body containing the following: | |
222 | ||
223 | send mail/mh/mh-6.8.tar.Z | |
224 | ||
225 | UK users may be able to use ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk. Send a note | |
226 | whose body contains "help" to this address. [12.92] | |
227 | ||
228 | Send a note to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com whose body contains "help" | |
229 | on a line by itself get information on getting ftp sources by | |
230 | mail. Also include the lines "connect" and "dir /pub/mail/ua/mh" | |
231 | to see which files are available local to decwrl. Please do this | |
232 | as a last resort only. [1.93] | |
233 | ||
234 | via U.S. mail: | |
235 | You can send $75 US to the address below. This covers | |
236 | the cost of a 6250 BPI 9-track magtape, handling, and ship- | |
237 | ping. In addition, you'll get a laser-printed hard-copy of | |
238 | the entire MH documentation set. Be sure to include your | |
239 | USPS address with your check. Checks must be drawn on U.S. | |
240 | funds and should be made payable to: | |
241 | ||
242 | Regents of the University of California | |
243 | ||
244 | The distribution address is: | |
245 | ||
246 | Univeristy of California at Irvine | |
247 | Office of Academic Computing | |
248 | 360 Computer Science | |
249 | Irvine, CA 92717 USA | |
250 | ||
251 | +1 714 856 5153 | |
252 | ||
253 | Sadly, if you just want the hard-copies of the documenta- | |
254 | tion, you still have to pay the $75. The tar image has the | |
255 | documentation source (the manual is in roff format, but the | |
256 | rest are in TeX format). Postscript formatted versions of | |
257 | the TeX papers are available, as are crude tty-conversions | |
258 | of those papers. [1.93] | |
259 | ||
260 | ||
261 | Subject: What references exist for MH? | |
262 | From: Intro-4 | |
263 | ||
264 | Book: | |
265 | MH & xmh: E-mail for Users & Programmers. Second edition. Jerry Peek. | |
266 | ISBN 1-56592-027-9. $29.95. 728 pages. | |
267 | O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. | |
268 | Book Orders: | |
269 | US and Canada: 800-998-9938. Fax: 707-829-0104. | |
270 | ||
271 | References to "the MH book" in this document refer to the second | |
272 | edition of this book (section numbers for the first edition appear | |
273 | in parenthesis). | |
274 | ||
275 | To get a list of non-US distributors, send a note to | |
276 | nuts@ora.com or call +1-707-829-0515. | |
277 | ||
278 | Examples from this book are in: | |
279 | ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] | |
280 | published/oreilly/nutshell/MHxmh/MHxmh2.tar.Z 54KB | |
281 | ||
282 | There is another book that contains a number of examples of | |
283 | advanced mail handing using MH as the example message handler. | |
284 | It's also quite a good reference on e-mail in general. [12.92] | |
285 | ||
286 | The Internet Message. Marshall T. Rose | |
287 | ISBN 0-13-092941-7. 396 pages. | |
288 | P T R Prentice Hall | |
289 | ||
290 | Usenet: | |
291 | comp.mail.mh (gatewayed to MH-users) | |
292 | ||
293 | Mailing lists: | |
294 | General questions/discussion: MH-users@ics.uci.edu | |
295 | (gatewayed to comp.mail.mh). | |
296 | MH developers and maintainers: MH-workers@ics.uci.edu. | |
297 | Please use MH-users-request and MH-workers-request to request | |
298 | an addition or deletion. | |
299 | ||
300 | MH-users archives: | |
301 | ftp.ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1] mh/mh-users/* | |
302 | ||
303 | The files are in packf(1) format, compressed with compress(1). To | |
304 | get them, use anonymous ftp and set "binary" transfer mode. | |
305 | ||
306 | mh-users.86.Z 8549 mh-users.86.scan.Z 771 | |
307 | mh-users.87.Z 55449 mh-users.87.scan.Z 3679 | |
308 | mh-users.88.Z 182805 mh-users.88.scan.Z 11339 | |
309 | mh-users.89.Z 89151 mh-users.89.scan.Z 5522 | |
310 | mh-users.90.Z 402470 mh-users.90.scan.Z 21551 | |
311 | mh-users.91.Z 878763 mh-users.91.scan.Z 36992 | |
312 | mh-users.92.Z 1281585 mh-users.92.scan.Z 44975 | |
313 | mh-users.mbox: current archive, uncompressed. | |
314 | ||
315 | There are directions in the README file. Basically, you can use | |
316 | either "msh" or the individual commands "inc -file" to get the | |
317 | messages into a folder, and then "scan", "pick", "show", and so on | |
318 | (or your favorite commands in xmh, mh-e, etc.). --Jerry Peek | |
319 | <jerry@ora.com> | |
320 | ||
321 | This document: | |
322 | via anonymous ftp: | |
323 | pit-manager.mit.edu [18.172.1.27] /pub/usenet/news.answers/mh-faq.Z | |
324 | ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] /archive/usenet/news.answers/mh-faq.Z | |
325 | ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] /pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/mh-faq | |
326 | ||
327 | via mail: | |
328 | Each of the following addresses is following by commands which | |
329 | should be included as the body of the message. | |
330 | ||
331 | mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu | |
332 | send usenet/comp.mail.mh/mh-faq | |
333 | ||
334 | mail-server@cs.ruu.nl | |
335 | send pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/mh-faq | |
336 | ||
337 | ||
338 | Subject: ! What other MH software is available? | |
339 | From: Intro-5 | |
340 | ||
341 | vmh | |
342 | Vmh is designed for people using the bulletin-board features | |
343 | of MH, where mail is stored in packed (single-file) folders. As | |
344 | a result, use of this program cannot be mixed with the use of | |
345 | normal MH commands. Vmh is a part of the official MH | |
346 | distribution. --James Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com> [1.93] | |
347 | ||
348 | xmh | |
349 | Xmh is a X11 mouse-based MH browsing tool. It is very powerful | |
350 | and feature-filled and thus comes with a moderate learning | |
351 | curve. Its dependence on the X11 environment makes it very | |
352 | reconfigurable, but only by people well-versed in X applications | |
353 | programming. Its message reply built-in-editor interface is not | |
354 | always popular among those used to having MH bring up the editor | |
355 | of their choice. --James Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com> | |
356 | ||
357 | xmh is part of the standard X Window System distribution from | |
358 | MIT. Ultrix also ships dxmail which is similar. | |
359 | ||
360 | cs.utk.edu [128.169.201.1] pub/xmh.shar.Z 161KB | |
361 | ||
362 | Here's a version of xmh that includes MIME. --Harald Tveit | |
363 | Alvestrand <hta@boheme.er.sintef.no> [1.93] | |
364 | ||
365 | aun.uninett.no pub/unix/mixmh-0.2.tar.Z | |
366 | ||
367 | olmh | |
368 | Sun's Open Windows 3 comes with a demo for OLIT (Open Look | |
369 | Interface Toolkit, the Open Look wrapper to Xt) named olmh that | |
370 | does handle 3rd and subsequent levels of nesting of folders. | |
371 | --Dale Carstensen <dlc@c3file.c3.lanl.gov> | |
372 | ||
373 | Obtain the Open Windows 3 distribution CD/ROM from Sun (SPARC | |
374 | only). To do this, call 1-800-USA-4SUN and send tone "2" for | |
375 | telemarketing after it answers. The 4.1.2 CD/ROM may also have | |
376 | Open Windows 3. The list price for the 4.1.2 CD/ROM is $200. | |
377 | ||
378 | mh-e | |
379 | Mh-e is the GNU Emacs front end for MH. It offers all the | |
380 | functionality of MH, the visual orientation and simplicity of | |
381 | use of xmh, and full integration with Emacs, including thorough | |
382 | configurability. The command set is similar to that of rmail | |
383 | (the Emacs front end for BSD mail) and BSD mail itself. On-line | |
384 | help is available. | |
385 | ||
386 | Mh-e allows one to read and process mail very quickly: commands | |
387 | are single characters and completion and defaults are available | |
388 | for file and folder names. During a reply, the original message | |
389 | is displayed simultaneously in another window for easy reference | |
390 | where a mh-e command can quickly incorporate and format this | |
391 | text into your reply. | |
392 | ||
393 | With mh-e you compose outgoing messages in Emacs. This is a big | |
394 | plus for Emacs users, but it has been known for non-Emacs users | |
395 | to be able use mh-e after only learning the most basic cursor | |
396 | motion commands. Mh-e is easily configured via the Emacs | |
397 | edit-options menu, and people familiar with Emacs Lisp will be | |
398 | able to further reconfigure mh-e beyond recognition. --Stephen | |
399 | Gildea <gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu> | |
400 | ||
401 | Mh-e is part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution. Note | |
402 | that mh-e got much faster in Emacs 18.56. | |
403 | ||
404 | primost.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.115] pub/mh-e.el.Z 36KB | |
405 | ||
406 | mime-compose.el allows one to easily include MIME components into | |
407 | a mh-e message. --Marc Andreessen <marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu> [1.93] | |
408 | ||
409 | archive.cis.ohio-state.edu | |
410 | pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/misc/mime-compose.el.Z 19KB | |
411 | ||
412 | vmail | |
413 | Vmail is a curses-based, vi-like message browser which calls on | |
414 | MH programs to manipulate mail. It can be used on almost any | |
415 | terminal. It organizes mail folders into index pages, from | |
416 | which a message can be selected to be shown, replied-to, | |
417 | forwarded, refiled, deleted, and so on. The vi-like interface | |
418 | and command keystrokes are comfortable to less-experienced UNIX | |
419 | users, and it is a small, compact program, unlike the mh-e Emacs | |
420 | package. | |
421 | ||
422 | This version of vmail has been bugfixed and enhanced from the | |
423 | original vmail published on the net in 1987 by J. Zobel. | |
424 | --James Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com> [1.93] | |
425 | ||
426 | ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] | |
427 | comp.sources.unix/volume12/vmail/part0*.Z 46KB | |
428 | ||
429 | ftp.ucs.ubc.ca [137.82.27.61] pub/mh/vmail[1-3]of3.Z 58KB | |
430 | Or mail requests to James Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com>. [1.93] | |
431 | ||
432 | vmailtool | |
433 | If you have a Sun workstation, vmailtool may be for you. It is a | |
434 | button gadget panel for the above-mentioned vmail program. It | |
435 | brings vmail into the windows era where people no longer need to | |
436 | memorize specific command keystrokes. It also provides a mail | |
437 | icon with the flag that pops up when new mail arrives. Again, | |
438 | this is a compact, simple tool, unlike the powerful xmh program. | |
439 | Still, it's a welcome alternative for many people who are running | |
440 | SunView or OpenWindows. --James Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com> [1.93] | |
441 | ||
442 | ftp.ucs.ubc.ca [137.82.27.61] pub/mh/vmailtool.Z 18KB | |
443 | or mail requests to James Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com>. [1.93] | |
444 | ||
445 | plum | |
446 | Plum is a highly configurable and extensible screen-oriented front-end | |
447 | for processing MH mail on ASCII terminals. Unlike mh-e, the extension | |
448 | language used in plum is perl, not LISP. Plum offers many of the | |
449 | advantages of xmh, but lacks several of xmh's disadvantages. The | |
450 | look&feel derives more from vi than from emacs. Key bindings and | |
451 | functions may be changed on the fly to suit the user's preference. It | |
452 | offers filename and word completion on folder, variables, and command | |
453 | names. | |
454 | ||
455 | Until it is included in the standard distribution (under miscellany), | |
456 | you can find a copy on: | |
457 | ||
458 | convex.com [130.168.1.1] pub/plum/plum* 55KB | |
459 | or mail requests to Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.com>. | |
460 | ||
461 | mmh | |
462 | MMH, My Mail Handler, is a Motif interface for reading and sending mail. | |
463 | It uses the MH commands to actually handle sending a receiving messages. | |
464 | It does not support all the capabilities of MH, but offers a large | |
465 | enough subset to handle the majority of users. Its intended user is | |
466 | someone between "bumbling e-mail novice" and "sophisticated user". | |
467 | Hooks are provided to allow the user to customize and add new commands. | |
468 | ||
469 | ftp.eos.ncsu.edu [152.1.9.25] /pub/bill.tar.Z | |
470 | ||
471 | metamail | |
472 | Metamail is a package that can be used to convert virtually ANY | |
473 | mail-reading program on UNIX into a multimedia mail-reading program. | |
474 | It is an extremely generic implementation of MIME (Multipurpose | |
475 | Internet Mail Extensions), the proposed standard for multimedia mail | |
476 | formats on the Internet. The implementation is extremely flexible and | |
477 | extensible, using a "mailcap" file mechanism for adding support for new | |
478 | data formats when sent through the mail. At a heterogeneous site where | |
479 | many mail readers are in use, the mailcap mechanism can be used to | |
480 | extend them all to support new types of multimedia mail by a single | |
481 | addition to a mailcap file. | |
482 | ||
483 | The metamail distribution comes complete with a small patch for | |
484 | each of over a dozen popular mail reading programs, including | |
485 | Berkeley mail, mh, Elm, Xmh, Xmail, Mailtool, Emacs Rmail, Emacs | |
486 | VM, Andrew, and others. Note that the MH patches are now integrated | |
487 | into MH 6.8 --Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@thumper.bellcore.com> | |
488 | ||
489 | thumper.bellcore.com [128.96.41.1] /pub/nsb/mm.tar.Z | |
490 | ||
491 | X.500 lookups | |
492 | If a name is enclosed in square brackets, when entering a destination | |
493 | address, ie: | |
494 | ||
495 | To: [Greg Wickham,CSIRO] | |
496 | ||
497 | a search will be made in the X.500 Directory for the individual's entry. | |
498 | If an address exists then it will be extracted and placed into the | |
499 | headers. Mail requests for the software to the author. --Andrew | |
500 | Waugh <ajw@mel.dit.csiro.au> | |
501 | ||
502 | QueueMH | |
503 | QuemeMH is an e-mail based service request and tracking system | |
504 | based on the Rand Mail Handler. --Barbara Dyker | |
505 | <dyker@teal.csn.org> [1.93] | |
506 | ||
507 | ftp.cs.colorado.edu pub/cs/sysadmin/utilities/queuemh.tar.Z | |
508 | ||
509 | QMH: | |
510 | ||
511 | Qmh is an MH-based group mail management tool. Written entirely in | |
512 | perl, Qmh combines the best aspects of MH with group mail | |
513 | heuristics and delivers a sensible package for all levels of UNIX | |
514 | users. A limitless number of individual queues and associated | |
515 | groups of permitted users can be established. | |
516 | ||
517 | Specific functionality includes the following modes of operation; | |
518 | checking header dates and sending reminder/deadline mail, editing | |
519 | existing messages, help screens, creating new messages from | |
520 | scratch or exiting messages, resolving messages, scanning queue | |
521 | folders, and annotating with status both by editing and sending | |
522 | mail. | |
523 | ||
524 | Qmh is a single generic program in and of itself from which all | |
525 | modes of operation are invoked. Additionally, each separate queue | |
526 | may be accessed via a link to the single program. All system | |
527 | configuration is maintained in a single file that is read upon | |
528 | each invocation of Qmh. Formatting and template files are | |
529 | provided in the system library, although individual users can | |
530 | override the defaults simply by creating equivalent files in their | |
531 | own MH mail directory. | |
532 | ||
533 | Qmh provides a powerful database-like functionality by allowing | |
534 | limitless per-queue X-Qmh-<$value> headers to be included in | |
535 | messages. These "fields" then form the context of the queue | |
536 | messages and provide a user-defined, but yet structured | |
537 | environment for queries, reporting, and random information. | |
538 | ||
539 | Qmh is designed to provide a complete solution for SA groups, help | |
540 | desks, support organizations, or wherever two or more individuals | |
541 | are trying to manage multiple mail requests. | |
542 | ||
543 | Qmh is also compatible with versions of xmh that provide | |
544 | user-level command buttons. Provided in the Qmh package is a | |
545 | ~/.Xdefaults template file that's setup to harness the power of | |
546 | Qmh. | |
547 | ||
548 | For more info, write to <info@rootgroup.com>. [3.93] | |
549 | ||
550 | MacMH and PC/MH: | |
551 | These were available only for non-commercial degree-granting | |
552 | institutions from: | |
553 | ||
554 | Networking & Communication Systems | |
555 | 115 Pine Hall | |
556 | Stanford University | |
557 | Stanford, CA 94305-4122 | |
558 | Phone: +1 415-723-3909 | |
559 | ||
560 | --Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com> | |
561 | ||
562 | The authorized distributor for PC/MH is: | |
563 | ||
564 | NEI, Inc. | |
565 | 210 Technology Drive, STE 210 | |
566 | Irvine, Ca 92718 | |
567 | Phone: +1 714-753-8588 | |
568 | FAX: +1 714-753-8593 | |
569 | Internet: info@netix.com | |
570 | ||
571 | --Shannon Yeh <yeh@orion.oac.uci.edu> | |
572 | ||
573 | In addition, you might try Wollongong, to see if they have something you | |
574 | can get. | |
575 | ||
576 | ||
577 | Subject: How can I print a MH manual? | |
578 | From: Intro-6 | |
579 | ||
580 | To order a copy by mail, see the section on how to get MH by mail in | |
581 | "Where can I get MH?" Also, check "What references exist for MH?" | |
582 | ||
583 | To print your own copy, first obtain the MH sources ("Where can I | |
584 | get MH?") if you don't already have it. Go into the "doc" directory | |
585 | and run "make guide" to create the administrators guide and "make | |
586 | manual" to create a user's manual which includes tutorials and man | |
587 | pages. If the doc directory is empty or is missing the Makefile, | |
588 | you'll have to run "mhconfig MH" in the conf directory so that the | |
589 | documentation with correct local information is created. | |
590 | ||
591 | For properly formatting the documentation (at least the manual | |
592 | pages) you might even have to install MH, because a reference to a | |
593 | tmac.h file in the MH lib directory is made in the manual pages. | |
594 | ||
595 | You can also ftp the ASCII or postscript versions: | |
596 | ||
597 | ftp.ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1] mh/doc/tutorial.ps.Z 64KB | |
598 | mh/doc/ADMIN.ps.Z 57KB | |
599 | mh/doc/MH.ps.Z (man pages) 273KB | |
600 | ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] same files, but in dir mail/mh/doc | |
601 | ||
602 | Or, you can send a note to mail-server@nluug.nl with a body containing the | |
603 | following: | |
604 | ||
605 | send mail/mh/papers-ps/tutorial.ps.Z | |
606 | ||
607 | --Bill Wohler and Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl> [1.93] | |
608 | ||
609 | ||
610 | Subject: How should I report bugs? | |
611 | From: Intro-7 | |
612 | ||
613 | Mail them to Bug-MH@ics.uci.edu and be sure to include the output of | |
614 | the -help option as well as what hardware and operating system you | |
615 | are using. | |
616 | ||
617 | ||
618 | Subject: How can I convert from my mailer to MH? | |
619 | From: Intro-8 | |
620 | ||
621 | If you use one of a mail agent like 'mail', 'mailx', 'elm' or | |
622 | 'mush', converting to MH is easy. When you run the 'inc' command, | |
623 | it reads all new messages from the system mailbox into your 'inbox' | |
624 | folder. Those mail agents also have separate files or "folders" | |
625 | that hold messages in the same format as the system mailbox. You | |
626 | can read them with the 'inc -file' command. For example, to read | |
627 | the messages from your 'mbox' mail file into your MH 'inbox' folder, | |
628 | you'd type: | |
629 | ||
630 | % cd | |
631 | % cp mbox mbox.backup | |
632 | % inc -file mbox | |
633 | ||
634 | If you see the usual "Incorporating new mail into inbox..." message | |
635 | and a scan listing, the messages probably were converted. Read some | |
636 | or all of them (with the 'show' command) and be sure. The 'inc' | |
637 | won't remove your mbox unless you use '-truncate'. | |
638 | ||
639 | Section D.4 (C.4) of the MH book lists two scripts to convert mail | |
640 | files to MH folders: babyl2mh to convert from rmail's babyl format; | |
641 | vmsmail2mh to convert from VMS's mail (see "What references exist | |
642 | for MH" to see where the book's examples can be ftped from). | |
643 | --Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com> | |
644 | ||
645 | Vivek Khera <khera@cs.duke.edu> rewrote this in Perl since the | |
646 | original script doesn't work for some people. See appendix | |
647 | "babyl2mh.pl." [1.93] | |
648 | ||
649 | Juergen Nickelsen <nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de> provides yet another | |
650 | short script. He says, | |
651 | ||
652 | "You can remove the second to last second line ("> $input"), so | |
653 | that the script doesn't zero out your RMAIL file. | |
654 | ||
655 | "Another alternative is to replace this line with "inc -file $tmpmbox | |
656 | $folder && > $input", so that the RMAIL is only zeroed if inc | |
657 | successfully incorporated the mail. Finally one could add a switch | |
658 | -z, so that the RMAIL file is only zeroed if the switch is given. | |
659 | See appendix "inco." [1.93] | |
660 | ||
661 | Use the following to convert a Babyl format file to UNIX mail format. | |
662 | --Barry A. Warsaw <warsaw@nlm.nih.gov>. | |
663 | durer.cme.nist.gov [129.6.32.4] pub/gnu/rmailtovm.el | |
664 | ||
665 | See also MH book appendix D (appendix C). | |
666 | ||
667 | ||
668 | Subject: What machines does MH run on? | |
669 | From: Building MH-10 | |
670 | ||
671 | If you have a computer running UNIX, you can probably run MH. | |
672 | --Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com> | |
673 | ||
674 | ||
675 | Subject: How do I build MH? | |
676 | From: Building MH-11 | |
677 | ||
678 | By carefully reading the READ-ME in the root of the source | |
679 | hierarchy, one should not have any trouble building MH. | |
680 | ||
681 | ||
682 | Subject: What options should I use? | |
683 | From: Building MH-12 | |
684 | ||
685 | BERK: Do NOT include the BERK option (in versions 6.7 or later)! | |
686 | BERK breaks the mh-format functions that take apart address lines, | |
687 | for example mbox, from, and friendly. This would really put a crimp | |
688 | on my replcomps file. | |
689 | ||
690 | LOCKF: if you have NFS, you need to lock your mailbox with lockf() | |
691 | so the lock will be honored by all machines on the local network. | |
692 | If you have the lockf() system call, include LOCKF. | |
693 | ||
694 | JQ Johnson <jqj@duff.uoregon.edu> makes the point that one should | |
695 | use this option carefully since it requires a roboust lockf() call. | |
696 | For example, this option caused serious problems on his SunOS 4.1.1. | |
697 | He suggested using LOK_BELL instead, and adding "lockstyle: 1" to | |
698 | mtstailor. | |
699 | ||
700 | ATZ: makes your timezones print like "EST" instead of "-0500". Much | |
701 | prettier. | |
702 | ||
703 | --Stephen Gildea <gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu> | |
704 | ||
705 | However, Tony Landells <ahl@technix.oz.au> replies: "Yes; very | |
706 | pretty. How unfortunate that timezone names are so ambiguous, so | |
707 | that EST can be interpreted, at a minimum, as (American) Eastern | |
708 | Standard Time, (Australian) Eastern Standard Time, or (Australian) | |
709 | Eastern Summer Time (and yes, I think it's dumb having the same | |
710 | acronym for both normal and Summer time, but that's a different | |
711 | problem). While the numeric timezones may not look as nice, they | |
712 | are, at least, reasonably unambiguous. I would urge anyone who ever | |
713 | intends/hopes/expects to use e-mail outside the U.S. to NOT use ATZ | |
714 | (sorry Stephen)." | |
715 | ||
716 | At any rate, the conf/examples directory has been updated and | |
717 | contains many examples show you which options are required on your | |
718 | platform and which are optional (in the upcoming version MH 6.8). At | |
719 | any rate, it is recommended that you examine the options in the | |
720 | example configuration files, and read about them in READ-ME. | |
721 | ||
722 | RPATHS: a side-effect is that slocal writes messages to your system | |
723 | maildrop without the MMDF C-A's that separate messages, so your BSD | |
724 | tools like from work. [12.92] | |
725 | ||
726 | ||
727 | Subject: Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available" | |
728 | From: Building MH-13 | |
729 | ||
730 | The error message itself is essentially correct. However, what this | |
731 | really means is: MH's post cannot connect to a running sendmail over | |
732 | an SMTP port (MH configured with SMTP and SENDMTS). | |
733 | ||
734 | The potential problems: | |
735 | ||
736 | 1. Your local sendmail daemon is dying or not running for some | |
737 | reason. | |
738 | ||
739 | 2. You use BIND and your local nameserver is not responding. | |
740 | ||
741 | 3. Your mtstailor has its "servers:" pointing to a non-existant | |
742 | machine or a machine which is a) not reachable or b) not running the | |
743 | sendmail daemon. --Peter Marvit <marvit@hplabs.hpl.hp.com> | |
744 | ||
745 | ||
746 | Subject: Where can I get POP3? | |
747 | From: Building MH-14 | |
748 | ||
749 | MH6.7 (and earlier versions too) include a server for version 3 of POP. | |
750 | ||
751 | ||
752 | Subject: What do I do if scan shows the wrong date? | |
753 | From: Building MH-15 | |
754 | ||
755 | Upgrade to MH 6.8. [1.93] | |
756 | ||
757 | ||
758 | Subject: Why slocal writes messages to system maildrop that from(1) can't read. | |
759 | From: Building MH-16 | |
760 | ||
761 | Upgrade to MH 6.8 and set the RPATHS option. Better yet, use a more | |
762 | MH-like command instead: "scan -file $MAIL". [1.93] | |
763 | ||
764 | ||
765 | Subject: Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one? | |
766 | From: Building MH-17 | |
767 | ||
768 | I carefully reconfigured and rebuilt MH from scratch and the problem | |
769 | went away. --Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM> | |
770 | ||
771 | ||
772 | Subject: Does MH support IMAP2 (RFC 1064)? | |
773 | From: Building MH-18 | |
774 | ||
775 | No. MH only supports retrieving mail using POP3. POP3 is on the | |
776 | "standards track"--it is now an elective Internet Draft Standard | |
777 | (see RFC1280 for more details). At this point, IMAP[23] are | |
778 | "experimental, limited use" protocols; it is unlikely that MH will | |
779 | support them. --John Romine <jromine@ics.uci.edu> | |
780 | ||
781 | ||
782 | Subject: Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc but not slocal? | |
783 | From: Building MH-19 | |
784 | ||
785 | If "mailgroup" is set, inc is made set-group-id to this group name. | |
786 | Some SYS5 systems want this to be set to "mail". Set this if | |
787 | /usr/spool/mail (or /usr/mail) is not world-writeable. These | |
788 | changes were contributed by Peter Marvit, and "inc" is very careful | |
789 | about its use of the set-gid privilege. | |
790 | ||
791 | Note that slocal doesn't know how to deal with this, and will not | |
792 | work under these systems; just making it set-group-id will open a | |
793 | security hole (since it doesn't know when to drop the set-gid | |
794 | privileges). If you're using "mailgroup", you should remove slocal | |
795 | (and its man page) from your system. --John Romine | |
796 | <jromine@ics.uci.edu> [1.93] | |
797 | ||
798 | Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent. | |
799 | Archie can help you find where they are kept. | |
800 | ||
801 | ||
802 | Subject: Where can I read about slocal and the format of the .maildelivery file? | |
803 | From: Using MH-30 | |
804 | ||
805 | See the slocal man page. | |
806 | ||
807 | Here is brief example of a .maildelivery file that stores messages | |
808 | to babble in a folder and the system mailbox, stores mh-users in a | |
809 | folder but not the system mailbox, and puts the rest in the system | |
810 | mailbox. | |
811 | ||
812 | to mh-users | A "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +lists/mh-users" | |
813 | cc mh-users | A "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +lists/mh-users" | |
814 | to babble | R "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +lists/babble" | |
815 | cc babble | R "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +lists/babble" | |
816 | default - > ? /usr/spool/mail/wohler | |
817 | ||
818 | Your .forward file may look like (quotes necessary): | |
819 | ||
820 | "| /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal -user your_login" | |
821 | ||
822 | In some implentations, the "-user your_login" is not needed. If | |
823 | not, manually running slocal with the flag will produce an error. | |
824 | ||
825 | See also chapter 11 in the MH book. | |
826 | ||
827 | Alternatives to slocal include deliver, procmail, and mailagent. | |
828 | Archie can help you find where they are kept. | |
829 | ||
830 | ||
831 | Subject: How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"? | |
832 | From: Using MH-31 | |
833 | ||
834 | When making a reply, specify a filter file on the command line: | |
835 | ||
836 | repl -filter repl.format | |
837 | ||
838 | This filter file must be in your MH mail directory (usually "Mail", | |
839 | in your home directory). Here are a couple of example repl.format | |
840 | files: | |
841 | ||
842 | overflowtext="",overflowoffset=0 | |
843 | message-id:nocomponent,formatfield=\ | |
844 | "In message %{text}you write:" | |
845 | body:component=">",overflowtext=">",overflowoffset=0 | |
846 | ||
847 | or | |
848 | ||
849 | overflowtext="",overflowoffset=0 | |
850 | date:component="Your message dated",formatfield=\ | |
851 | "%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(pretty{text})%>" | |
852 | body:component=">",overflowtext=">",overflowoffset=0 | |
853 | ||
854 | Setting overflowoffset to 0 keeps MH from doing anything to | |
855 | extra-long lines in the headers. In the body, however, this | |
856 | behavior is overridden so that long lines are automatically broken | |
857 | and a ">" is inserted before every line. You could put almost | |
858 | whatever you want between those quotes, although the "standard" ">" | |
859 | makes it easier to read notes that have been included several times. | |
860 | The examples differ with the descriptive text that is inserted | |
861 | before the included body. | |
862 | ||
863 | It is suggested not to use the "prompter" editor in this case, since | |
864 | it is likely that you'll not want to use all of the included | |
865 | message. Indeed, it is proper etiquette to edit out all unnecessary | |
866 | include verbiage so readers don't have to wade through the morass to | |
867 | read your pearls of wisdom. | |
868 | ||
869 | WARNING: the '>' appears on the first line ONLY in versions prior | |
870 | to 6.7.2. Upgrade to MH 6.8. | |
871 | ||
872 | --Alan Thew <qq11@liv.ac.uk>, Mike Schwager <schwager@cs.uiuc.edu>, | |
873 | James T Perkins <jamesp@sp-eug.com> [1.93] | |
874 | ||
875 | See also MH book sections 6.7.4, 6.7.5, 9.4.1 (9.3.1). | |
876 | ||
877 | ||
878 | Subject: How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself? | |
879 | From: Using MH-32 | |
880 | ||
881 | Add these two lines to your MH profile file: | |
882 | ||
883 | Alternate-Mailboxes: user@host1, user@host2, ... | |
884 | repl: -nocc me | |
885 | ||
886 | To get one copy, you can either: | |
887 | ||
888 | - Take out the "-nocc me"... then you'll get exactly one copy of | |
889 | your replies (assuming all your addresses are listed in | |
890 | Alternate-Mailboxes), or | |
891 | ||
892 | - Add an "Fcc: foldername" to the headers of messages you send. | |
893 | That will drop a copy of the message in the folder "foldername". | |
894 | You can do this for *all* MH messages you send (not just with | |
895 | repl) by putting an "Fcc:" entry in your personal copy of the | |
896 | files "components", "replcomps", and "forwcomps" in your MH | |
897 | directory. (If you make a "distcomps" file, it needs | |
898 | "Resent-Fcc:".) For more info, see the man pages comp(1), | |
899 | repl(1), forw(1), dist(1) and mh-mail(5). --Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com> | |
900 | ||
901 | The Alternate-Mailboxes also tells scan which messages are really | |
902 | from you so that it can place the recipient in the scan line instead | |
903 | of the sender. --Bill Wohler | |
904 | ||
905 | See also MH book sections 6.7.2, 8.6. | |
906 | ||
907 | This is also a convenient way to AVOID automatically cc-ing a | |
908 | mailing list when replying to a person who sent the message to the | |
909 | mailing-list, by listing the name of that mailing list in your | |
910 | alternate mailboxes. --Alec Wolman <wolman@crl.dec.com> | |
911 | ||
912 | ||
913 | Subject: How would one go about reading Usenet with MH? | |
914 | From: Using MH-33 | |
915 | ||
916 | Although news readers are better, if one really wants to use | |
917 | MH, bbc will do the job. For example, "bbc comp.mail.mh" reads this | |
918 | newsgroup. To enable bbc, you have to specify "bboards" when you | |
919 | build MH. --Stephen Gildea <gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu> | |
920 | ||
921 | You can save articles in the news readers for later perusal with MH. | |
922 | ||
923 | First, create a symbolic link from your mail directory (ie. usenet) to | |
924 | your news directory (ie. "ln -s ~/News ~/Mail/usenet"). You can then | |
925 | treat your news directory as a mail folder. Thus, to select a news | |
926 | group, use "folder +usenet/comp/mail/mh". | |
927 | ||
928 | To set the default save location correctly in rn, use: | |
929 | ||
930 | rn -M -/ | |
931 | ||
932 | or in your nn presentation sequence: | |
933 | ||
934 | news.announce. +$F/$N | |
935 | comp.mail.mh + | |
936 | . | |
937 | . | |
938 | ||
939 | See also MH book section 8.7. | |
940 | ||
941 | ||
942 | Subject: Can I append MH messages (ie. +inbox/1) to a UNIX mailbox format file? | |
943 | From: Using MH-34 | |
944 | ||
945 | Yes, see support/general/packmbox.sh in the distribution. [1.93] | |
946 | ||
947 | ||
948 | Subject: How can I include my signature? | |
949 | From: Using MH-35 | |
950 | ||
951 | There are several ways. | |
952 | ||
953 | 1) The MH way. | |
954 | ||
955 | 1a) In your Mail directory, create files that | |
956 | include your signature into the format of the message. | |
957 | ||
958 | ~/Mail/components: | |
959 | To: | |
960 | cc: | |
961 | Subject: | |
962 | -------- | |
963 | ||
964 | -- | |
965 | Eric Ziegast ziegast@uunet.uu.net | |
966 | UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast | |
967 | ||
968 | ~/Mail/replcomps | |
969 | body:component="> ",compwidth=2 | |
970 | :-- | |
971 | :Eric Ziegast ziegast@uunet.uu.net | |
972 | :UUNET Technologies uunet!ziegast | |
973 | ||
974 | To use the replcomps file, add the following to your ~/.mh_profile: | |
975 | ||
976 | repl: -filter replfmt | |
977 | ||
978 | When comp is used, your signature is already there along with my | |
979 | headers. When repl is used, the mhl program takes the body of | |
980 | the letter you're replying to, prepends '> ' to each line and | |
981 | then adds your signature at the end (available after version 6.7). | |
982 | ||
983 | 1b) Create an "editor" which can be called from whatnow to add the | |
984 | signature when desired or create a frontend to post (use the | |
985 | .mh_profile line "postproc: postproc" to call it) that always | |
986 | appends the .signature file before calling post to mail the | |
987 | message. David J. Fiander <david@golem.uucp>, David A. | |
988 | Truesdell <truesdel@sun418.nas.nasa.gov> and Tom Wilmore | |
989 | <sastjw@unx.sas.com> have sample scripts to do these. | |
990 | ||
991 | 1c) Section 13.13 of the MH book lists mysend, a sendproc script to | |
992 | process a message after "What now? send" (see "What references | |
993 | exist for MH" to see where the book's examples can be ftped from). | |
994 | --Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com> [9.92] | |
995 | ||
996 | 2) Using your editor. If you use vi, you can use something like: | |
997 | ||
998 | map S :r ~/.signature | |
999 | ||
1000 | to load your signature out of .signature every time you | |
1001 | hit 'S'. | |
1002 | ||
1003 | 3) Use your windowing system. xterm, for example, can provide key | |
1004 | and button mappings for the utterly lazy. | |
1005 | ||
1006 | 4) And if you use Emacs with mh-e, C-c C-s will append the signature. | |
1007 | ||
1008 | --Eric W. Ziegast <ziegast@uunet.uu.net> & Hardy Mayer | |
1009 | <hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu> except where noted. | |
1010 | ||
1011 | Tired of the same old signature? Want different signatures for | |
1012 | different newsgroups? Here's a program to help you out. | |
1013 | ||
1014 | The way it works is to have .signature be a named pipe, so if you | |
1015 | don't have named pipes, just say 'n'. | |
1016 | ||
1017 | The sigrand program then feeds stuff down the pipe everytime someone | |
1018 | wants to read it. That way it works for more than just news, but | |
1019 | for anything that wants to read your .signature, like a mailer. | |
1020 | ||
1021 | You have your choice of three kinds of signatures: | |
1022 | ||
1023 | 1) random (short) fortune from "fortune -s"; you get these if | |
1024 | you don't have a global sig file. | |
1025 | 2) random fortune from ~/News/SIGNATURES [global sig file] | |
1026 | 3) random fortune form ~/News/(newsgroup)/SIGNATURES [local sig files] | |
1027 | ||
1028 | Ask Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.com> for more details. | |
1029 | ||
1030 | ||
1031 | Subject: What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed". | |
1032 | From: Using MH-36 | |
1033 | ||
1034 | If your users are using an AT&T version of "vi", it's exiting with | |
1035 | non-zero status (supposedly a count of the "errors" during the edit). | |
1036 | Move "vi" to "broken_vi" and put it its place: | |
1037 | ||
1038 | #! /bin/sh | |
1039 | /usr/ucb/broken_vi $* | |
1040 | exit 0 | |
1041 | ||
1042 | Alternatively, compile MH with the ATTVIBUG option. | |
1043 | ||
1044 | Then complain to your vendor that "vi" is broken, and they should | |
1045 | fix it. --John Romine <jromine@ics.uci.edu> | |
1046 | ||
1047 | ||
1048 | Subject: How do I call my editor with arguments? | |
1049 | From: Using MH-37 | |
1050 | ||
1051 | Set your editor (in .mh_profile) to the following shellscript: | |
1052 | ||
1053 | #/bin/sh | |
1054 | <youreditor> <yourargs> $* | |
1055 | exit 0 | |
1056 | ||
1057 | --John Romine <jromine@ics.uci.edu> | |
1058 | ||
1059 | You might find it useful to make <youreditor> $EDITOR, or to use | |
1060 | different arguments depending on your EDITOR environment variable. | |
1061 | --Ray Nickson <Ray.Nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz> | |
1062 | ||
1063 | ||
1064 | Subject: ! How do I debug my .maildelivery file? | |
1065 | From: Using MH-38 | |
1066 | ||
1067 | Use as many of the following as necessary. | |
1068 | ||
1069 | Put a message into a file and call slocal directly on it. | |
1070 | ||
1071 | /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal -user $USER -verbose -debug < test-msg | |
1072 | ||
1073 | Modify your .forward to look like: | |
1074 | ||
1075 | "|/bin/sh -c 'exec >> /tmp/out 2>&1; /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal | |
1076 | -user $USER -verbose -debug'" | |
1077 | ||
1078 | Or modify a rule in .maildelivery to look like this: | |
1079 | ||
1080 | to foo | R "set -xv; exec >/tmp/out 2>&1; | |
1081 | /usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore +foo" | |
1082 | ||
1083 | The previous examples are broken up for readability; the text must | |
1084 | appear on one line. | |
1085 | ||
1086 | See also MH book section 11.11. [3.93] | |
1087 | ||
1088 | ||
1089 | Subject: How can I digestify the messages in a folder for mail to another user? | |
1090 | From: Using MH-39 | |
1091 | ||
1092 | How about: | |
1093 | ||
1094 | forw [-digest tmp] [-form forwcomps] [-filter mhl.digest] | |
1095 | messages +folder | |
1096 | ||
1097 | These messages can be un-digestified :-) by the MH burst(1) program. | |
1098 | --Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com> and Bill Wohler | |
1099 | ||
1100 | See also MH book sections 6.8, 7.9. | |
1101 | ||
1102 | ||
1103 | Subject: Can I run my message through a program (ie. ispell) before sending? | |
1104 | From: Using MH-40 | |
1105 | ||
1106 | It's pretty simple. If your speller is called myspell, use: | |
1107 | ||
1108 | What now? edit myspell | |
1109 | ||
1110 | MH will actually execute: | |
1111 | ||
1112 | myspell /your-mail-draft-directory/draftfile | |
1113 | ||
1114 | and give the entire draft message to your speller. The header will | |
1115 | probably be "misspelled," of course, though you might be able to | |
1116 | tell the speller to ignore it--or you could hack up a little shell | |
1117 | script to run the speller on just the message body, then tack the | |
1118 | corrected body back onto the header before sending. | |
1119 | ||
1120 | You can automate this some more. For example, if you want your | |
1121 | speller to run after your first edit with "prompter" and also after | |
1122 | you leave the "vi" editor, add these lines to your MH profile: | |
1123 | ||
1124 | prompter-next: myspell | |
1125 | vi-next: myspell | |
1126 | ||
1127 | Then, at the "What now?" prompt: | |
1128 | ||
1129 | What now? e | |
1130 | ||
1131 | your speller will run. For more info, see the mh-profile(5) man | |
1132 | page or section 6.2.1 of the MH book. --Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com> | |
1133 | ||
1134 | ||
1135 | Subject: Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file? | |
1136 | From: Using MH-41 | |
1137 | ||
1138 | To convert your MH folders to BABYL folders, first run the following script | |
1139 | on your Mail directory. | |
1140 | ||
1141 | #!/bin/sh | |
1142 | ||
1143 | for f in Mail/*; do | |
1144 | if [ -d $f ]; then | |
1145 | touch msgbox | |
1146 | folder=`basename $f` | |
1147 | echo -n packing $folder ... | |
1148 | packf +$folder | |
1149 | echo done | |
1150 | mv msgbox Mail-rmail/$folder | |
1151 | fi | |
1152 | done | |
1153 | ||
1154 | This assumes you don't have nested folders. Your rmail folders will be | |
1155 | left in $HOME/Mail-rmail in MMDF format which rmail can read. Then run | |
1156 | rmail-input for each folder, which converts each folder into BABYL format. | |
1157 | ||
1158 | Be sure not to append any messages before they are converted from MMDF | |
1159 | to BABYL, since there may be really strange results. | |
1160 | ||
1161 | ||
1162 | Subject: Is there documentation for mh-e? | |
1163 | From: Using MH-42 | |
1164 | ||
1165 | Yes, sort of. Run "C-h m" (describe-mode) in both scan and | |
1166 | letter modes to see which commands and variables are available. | |
1167 | Browsing the code is also helpful. | |
1168 | ||
1169 | ||
1170 | Subject: How can I change my return address? | |
1171 | From: Using MH-43 | |
1172 | ||
1173 | If you find that your mailer creates a From header that others have | |
1174 | trouble replying to, you can add a Reply-To header to override the | |
1175 | From header in replies. | |
1176 | ||
1177 | Copy the components and replcomps files which are normally found in | |
1178 | /usr/local/lib/mh into your Mail directory and add a line like the | |
1179 | following after the Subject header replacing my address with your | |
1180 | address: | |
1181 | ||
1182 | Reply-To: wohler@sap-ag.de | |
1183 | ||
1184 | [12.92] | |
1185 | ||
1186 | Subject: How can I change my From header? | |
1187 | From: Using MH-44 | |
1188 | ||
1189 | If you're just interested in changing the hostname, add a line to | |
1190 | $LIB/mtstailor: | |
1191 | ||
1192 | localname: desired_host_name | |
1193 | ||
1194 | --Bill Wisner <wisner@netcom.com> [12.92] | |
1195 | ||
1196 | Just put a "From:" header in your "components", "replcomps" and | |
1197 | "forwcomps" files. MH will add a "Sender:" header with what it thinks | |
1198 | is your real address, but (almost) no one cares about the "Sender:" | |
1199 | header anyway. --Jerry Peek <jerry@ora.com> [12.92] | |
1200 | ||
1201 | ||
1202 | Subject: What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part". | |
1203 | From: Using MH-45 | |
1204 | ||
1205 | You may find that post returns the following message: | |
1206 | ||
1207 | post: bad address 'Mr. Foo Bar <fb@somewhere.edu>' - no at-sign | |
1208 | after local-part (Bar), continuing... | |
1209 | ||
1210 | The unquoted dot causes "Mr. Foo" to be parsed as the local part of | |
1211 | the address. Either remove the dot, or rewrite the address as | |
1212 | follows: | |
1213 | ||
1214 | "Mr. Foo Bar" <fb@somewhere.edu> | |
1215 | (Mr. Foo Bar) <fb@somewhere.edu> | |
1216 | (Mr. Foo Bar) fb@somewhere.edu | |
1217 | ||
1218 | --Owen Rees <rtor@ansa.co.uk> [1.93] | |
1219 | ||
1220 | ||
1221 | Subject: + How can I search through multiple folders? | |
1222 | From: Using MH-46 | |
1223 | ||
1224 | Recurse through the folders (in csh and sh): | |
1225 | ||
1226 | % foreach f (`folders -f`) $ for f in `folders -f` | |
1227 | ? pick [switches] +$f > pick [switches] +$f | |
1228 | ? end > done | |
1229 | ||
1230 | Or create a folder that contains links to all messages (in csh and sh): | |
1231 | ||
1232 | % foreach f (`folders -f | grep -v -x ln`) | |
1233 | ? refile -src +$f -link all +ln | |
1234 | ? end | |
1235 | ||
1236 | $ for f in `folders -f | grep -v -x ln` | |
1237 | > do refile -src +$f -link all +ln | |
1238 | > done | |
1239 | ||
1240 | and in the future, refile messages with "refile +folder +ln". To | |
1241 | find something, use: | |
1242 | ||
1243 | % pick [switches] +ln | |
1244 | ||
1245 | See MH book sections 7.2.9, 7.8.3. [3.93] | |
1246 | ||
1247 | ||
1248 | Subject: + Why isn't slocal working? | |
1249 | From: Using MH-47 | |
1250 | ||
1251 | If slocal doesn't appear to be doing anything, run the following | |
1252 | ||
1253 | /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal -user your_login -verbose < file | |
1254 | ||
1255 | where "file" is some message in a mail folder. If you get something | |
1256 | like: | |
1257 | ||
1258 | .maildelivery: ownership/modes bad (0, 154,154,0100666) | |
1259 | ||
1260 | your .maildelivery is writable by too many people. Make it writable | |
1261 | only by you by running "chmod 644 .maildelivery". | |
1262 | ||
1263 | See also "How do I debug my .maildelivery file?" [3.93] | |
1264 | ||
1265 | ||
1266 | Subject: + Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender already specified" | |
1267 | From: Using MH-48 | |
1268 | ||
1269 | The problem in sendmail is that the RSET after the ONEX does not | |
1270 | reset all the state information. Normally sendmail fork()s after | |
1271 | the Mail from: statement and a RSET causes that child to exit. This | |
1272 | automatically cleans up. If the fork() is suppressed by ONEX, then | |
1273 | the source must be modified to do the cleanup. See "srvrsmtp.c | |
1274 | patch" in the Appendix. If you don't have the sources, modify your | |
1275 | MH sources to not use the ONEX verb. --Paul Pomes | |
1276 | <paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> [3.93] | |
1277 | ||
1278 | ||
1279 | Subject: How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor? | |
1280 | From: Xmh-50 | |
1281 | ||
1282 | The modifications to xmh to support an external editor, annotations, | |
1283 | and an append command can be found in the these places. --Bob | |
1284 | Ellison <ellison@sei.cmu.edu> | |
1285 | ||
1286 | export.lcs.mit.edu R5fixes/xmh.editor/* | |
1287 | ftp.sei.cmu.edu pub/xmh | |
1288 | ||
1289 | As of R5, xmh has a new action proc called XmhShellCommand. A | |
1290 | string parameter will be executed as a shell command with the | |
1291 | currently selected messages as parameters (or the current message if | |
1292 | there are no selected messages). | |
1293 | ||
1294 | Using this new action, a couple of shell scripts, a window version | |
1295 | of emacs (e.g. xemacs) and some elisp code, xmh can use emacs as its | |
1296 | editor instead of the built in Athena text widget editor. This | |
1297 | doesn't require any source code changes to xmh. These are included | |
1298 | in the appendix "Switching xmh's editor". --Andrew Wason | |
1299 | <aw@bae.bellcore.com> | |
1300 | ||
1301 | ||
1302 | Subject: Does xmh support subfolders? | |
1303 | From: Xmh-51 | |
1304 | ||
1305 | Yes. Create one by invoking "Create Folder" as usual, and enter | |
1306 | something like: existing-folder/new-sub-folder. You can then access | |
1307 | the subfolder by popping up a menu over the "existing-folder" button | |
1308 | item. --Steve Malowany <malowany@cenparmi.concordia.ca> | |
1309 | ||
1310 | But: | |
1311 | ||
1312 | The R5 version of xmh does *not* handle nested sub-folders. If you | |
1313 | create a folder as 'grab/some/bandwidth', xmh displays this | |
1314 | foldername for the remainder of the session where it was created, | |
1315 | BUT if you later re-run xmh, the folder is no longer visible to xmh. | |
1316 | --John Cooper <jsc@saxon.Eng.Sun.COM> | |
1317 | ||
1318 | See also MH book section 15.6.2 (14.6.2). | |
1319 | ||
1320 | ||
1321 | Subject: How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh? | |
1322 | From: Xmh-52 | |
1323 | ||
1324 | Include the following line in your ~/app-defaults/XMh file: | |
1325 | ||
1326 | Xmh*replyInsertFilter: "sed 's/^/> /'" | |
1327 | ||
1328 | --Len Makin <len@mel.dit.csiro.au> | |
1329 | ||
1330 | or, | |
1331 | ||
1332 | Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter: /usr/local/lib/mh/mhl -form repl.filter | |
1333 | ||
1334 | Using this means that you can chose to insert the original by use of | |
1335 | the "Insert" button in the Draft message pane. See "How do I | |
1336 | include messages in repl with or without ">"?" to find examples of | |
1337 | repl.filter. --Andy Linton <andy.linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz> | |
1338 | ||
1339 | See also MH book sections 15.1.4 (14.1.4), 16.3.3 (15.2.3). | |
1340 | ||
1341 | ||
1342 | Subject: Glossary | |
1343 | From: Appendix | |
1344 | ||
1345 | MH Mail Handler | |
1346 | POP3 Post Office Protocol, RFC 1225 | |
1347 | MMDF Multi-channel Memo Distribution Facility | |
1348 | MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions | |
1349 | ||
1350 | ||
1351 | Subject: Acknowledgements | |
1352 | From: Appendix | |
1353 | ||
1354 | I'd like to thank the following people for providing ideas on the | |
1355 | layout of this article: | |
1356 | ||
1357 | Joe Wells <jbw@bigbird.bu.edu> Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu> | |
1358 | David Elliott <dce@smsc.sony.com> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.com> | |
1359 | Eugene N. Miya <eugene@nas.nasa.gov> | |
1360 | ||
1361 | ||
1362 | We are also grateful to the individuals mentioned below and in the | |
1363 | text of this document who have provided answers or other information | |
1364 | to make this a better document. I regret that it is possible that | |
1365 | some names have been accidently omitted. I would also like to thank | |
1366 | all the readers of comp.mail.mh. | |
1367 | ||
1368 | Kim F. Storm <storm@texas.dk> Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com> | |
1369 | ||
1370 | ||
1371 | Subject: Warranty | |
1372 | From: Appendix | |
1373 | ||
1374 | [The following statement epitomizes the ridiculous state of affairs in | |
1375 | our country (I'm an American) and can be ignored outside the US...] | |
1376 | ||
1377 | No Warranty: Because this article is provided free of charge as a | |
1378 | service to comp.mail.mh readers, we provide absolutely no warranty, to | |
1379 | the extent permitted by applicable state law. This article is | |
1380 | provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or | |
1381 | implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of | |
1382 | merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Should the | |
1383 | information prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary | |
1384 | servicing, repair or correction. | |
1385 | ||
1386 | ||
1387 | Subject: Switching xmh's editor | |
1388 | From: Appendix | |
1389 | ||
1390 | #! /bin/sh | |
1391 | # This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line, then unpack | |
1392 | # it by saving it into a file and typing "sh file". To overwrite existing | |
1393 | # files, type "sh file -c". You can also feed this as standard input via | |
1394 | # unshar, or by typing "sh <file", e.g.. If this archive is complete, you | |
1395 | # will see the following message at the end: | |
1396 | # "End of shell archive." | |
1397 | # Contents: README Xmh.ad xmh-command.el xmhcommand xmhemacs | |
1398 | # Wrapped by aw@jello on Fri Nov 15 17:10:34 1991 | |
1399 | PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb ; export PATH | |
1400 | if test -f 'README' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then | |
1401 | echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'README'\" | |
1402 | else | |
1403 | echo shar: Extracting \"'README'\" \(1269 characters\) | |
1404 | sed "s/^X//" >'README' <<'END_OF_FILE' | |
1405 | XThis is a short description of what to do with each of the enclosed files. | |
1406 | X | |
1407 | XXmh.ad | |
1408 | X Merge this in with your xmh resources. If you already have | |
1409 | X user defined buttons, then you may need to renumber the | |
1410 | X buttons in this resource file. | |
1411 | X | |
1412 | Xxmh-command.el | |
1413 | X Byte compile this file and put it in your GNU emacs load-path. | |
1414 | X | |
1415 | Xxmhcommand | |
1416 | Xxmhemacs | |
1417 | X Put these somewhere in your path. | |
1418 | X | |
1419 | X | |
1420 | XOnce you have installed these, restart the R5 xmh with the new | |
1421 | Xresources. When you press the repl, forw or comp buttons | |
1422 | Xan xemacs window will come up with your draft message. | |
1423 | X | |
1424 | XOnce you have written your mail, save it and exit GNU emacs (C-xC-c). | |
1425 | XYou will be prompted if you want to send the current message. | |
1426 | XIf you enter 'y', the message will be sent and the output will | |
1427 | Xbe displayed in an emacs window (in case you use -verbose or -snoop). | |
1428 | XThen you will be prompted to exit emacs. Enter 'y' when you are ready. | |
1429 | X | |
1430 | XIf you answered 'n' when prompted to send the message, | |
1431 | Xthen the draft message will be deleted and emacs will exit. | |
1432 | X | |
1433 | XYou can modify the Xmh.ad resources to add more buttons. | |
1434 | XAny MH command which accepts "+folder msg" can be used | |
1435 | X(e.g. a replx shell script which includes the body of the | |
1436 | Xmessage being replied to can be bound to a replx button) | |
1437 | X | |
1438 | X | |
1439 | XAndrew Wason | |
1440 | Xaw@bae.bellcore.com | |
1441 | END_OF_FILE | |
1442 | if test 1269 -ne `wc -c <'README'`; then | |
1443 | echo shar: \"'README'\" unpacked with wrong size! | |
1444 | fi | |
1445 | # end of 'README' | |
1446 | fi | |
1447 | if test -f 'Xmh.ad' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then | |
1448 | echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'Xmh.ad'\" | |
1449 | else | |
1450 | echo shar: Extracting \"'Xmh.ad'\" \(457 characters\) | |
1451 | sed "s/^X//" >'Xmh.ad' <<'END_OF_FILE' | |
1452 | XXmh*CommandButtonCount: 3 | |
1453 | X | |
1454 | XXmh*commandBox.button1.label: repl | |
1455 | XXmh*commandBox.button1.translations:\ | |
1456 | X #override\n\ | |
1457 | X <Btn1Up>: XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y repl) unset() | |
1458 | X | |
1459 | XXmh*commandBox.button2.label: forw | |
1460 | XXmh*commandBox.button2.translations:\ | |
1461 | X #override\n\ | |
1462 | X <Btn1Up>: XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y forw) unset() | |
1463 | X | |
1464 | XXmh*commandBox.button3.label: comp | |
1465 | XXmh*commandBox.button3.translations:\ | |
1466 | X #override\n\ | |
1467 | X <Btn1Up>: XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand n comp) unset() | |
1468 | END_OF_FILE | |
1469 | if test 457 -ne `wc -c <'Xmh.ad'`; then | |
1470 | echo shar: \"'Xmh.ad'\" unpacked with wrong size! | |
1471 | fi | |
1472 | # end of 'Xmh.ad' | |
1473 | fi | |
1474 | if test -f 'xmh-command.el' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then | |
1475 | echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmh-command.el'\" | |
1476 | else | |
1477 | echo shar: Extracting \"'xmh-command.el'\" \(1294 characters\) | |
1478 | sed "s/^X//" >'xmh-command.el' <<'END_OF_FILE' | |
1479 | X;;; These functions are for use with xemacs and xmh. | |
1480 | X;;; The R5 xmh has a new action - XmhShellCommand which executes | |
1481 | X;;; a shell command with the current msg as an arg. | |
1482 | X;;; By executing something like: | |
1483 | X;;; XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand repl) | |
1484 | X;;; you can use xemacs as your editor with xmh. | |
1485 | X;;; | |
1486 | X;;; The following elisp functions perform the basic whatnowproc functionality | |
1487 | X;;; (quitting and deleting, sending) | |
1488 | X;;; | |
1489 | X;;; Andrew Wason aw@bae.bellcore.com | |
1490 | X | |
1491 | X | |
1492 | X;;; Override C-xC-c | |
1493 | X(define-key indented-text-mode-map "\C-x\C-c" 'xmh-command-send-or-delete) | |
1494 | X | |
1495 | X | |
1496 | X(setq mhdraft (getenv "mhdraft")) ; save the filename of the draft | |
1497 | X | |
1498 | X | |
1499 | X(find-file mhdraft) ; load the draft letter | |
1500 | X(indented-text-mode) | |
1501 | X(setq draft-buffer (current-buffer)) ; save the buffer the draft is in | |
1502 | X | |
1503 | X | |
1504 | X(defun xmh-command-send-or-delete () | |
1505 | X "Prompt to send or delete letter, then quit." | |
1506 | X (interactive) | |
1507 | X (set-buffer draft-buffer) | |
1508 | X (if (y-or-n-p "Send message? ") | |
1509 | X (progn | |
1510 | X (save-buffer) ; save the draft buffer | |
1511 | X (message "Sending...") | |
1512 | X (pop-to-buffer "MH mail delivery"); pop to a buffer for "send" output | |
1513 | X (erase-buffer) | |
1514 | X (call-process "send" nil t t mhdraft) ; call MH "send" | |
1515 | X (if (y-or-n-p "Exit? ") | |
1516 | X (kill-emacs))) ; exit emacs | |
1517 | X (delete-file mhdraft) ; delete the draft letter | |
1518 | X (kill-emacs))) ; exit emacs | |
1519 | END_OF_FILE | |
1520 | if test 1294 -ne `wc -c <'xmh-command.el'`; then | |
1521 | echo shar: \"'xmh-command.el'\" unpacked with wrong size! | |
1522 | fi | |
1523 | # end of 'xmh-command.el' | |
1524 | fi | |
1525 | if test -f 'xmhcommand' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then | |
1526 | echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmhcommand'\" | |
1527 | else | |
1528 | echo shar: Extracting \"'xmhcommand'\" \(669 characters\) | |
1529 | sed "s/^X//" >'xmhcommand' <<'END_OF_FILE' | |
1530 | X#!/bin/sh | |
1531 | X# This shell should be invoked by the xmh XmhShellCommand() action as | |
1532 | X# XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand y repl) | |
1533 | X# XmhShellCommand(xmhcommand n comp) etc. | |
1534 | X# If the second arg is y, then the message list will be used. | |
1535 | X | |
1536 | X# We invoke the passed MH command on the identified message | |
1537 | X# (we must strip the message number and folder from the pathname) | |
1538 | X(if [ $1 = "y" ] | |
1539 | Xthen | |
1540 | X $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs +`dirname \`echo $3 | \ | |
1541 | X sed "s;\\\`mhpath +\\\`/;;"\`` `basename $3` | |
1542 | X | |
1543 | X# You can use this more readable version instead if you have ksh | |
1544 | X# $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs +$(dirname $(echo $3 | \ | |
1545 | X# sed "s;$(mhpath +)/;;")) $(basename $3) | |
1546 | X | |
1547 | Xelse | |
1548 | X $2 -whatnowproc xmhemacs | |
1549 | Xfi)& | |
1550 | END_OF_FILE | |
1551 | if test 669 -ne `wc -c <'xmhcommand'`; then | |
1552 | echo shar: \"'xmhcommand'\" unpacked with wrong size! | |
1553 | fi | |
1554 | chmod +x 'xmhcommand' | |
1555 | # end of 'xmhcommand' | |
1556 | fi | |
1557 | if test -f 'xmhemacs' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then | |
1558 | echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'xmhemacs'\" | |
1559 | else | |
1560 | echo shar: Extracting \"'xmhemacs'\" \(116 characters\) | |
1561 | sed "s/^X//" >'xmhemacs' <<'END_OF_FILE' | |
1562 | X#!/bin/sh | |
1563 | X# Invoke xemacs and load the xmh-command.el stuff. | |
1564 | X# xmhemacs is used by xmhcommand | |
1565 | Xxemacs -l xmh-command | |
1566 | END_OF_FILE | |
1567 | if test 116 -ne `wc -c <'xmhemacs'`; then | |
1568 | echo shar: \"'xmhemacs'\" unpacked with wrong size! | |
1569 | fi | |
1570 | chmod +x 'xmhemacs' | |
1571 | # end of 'xmhemacs' | |
1572 | fi | |
1573 | echo shar: End of shell archive. | |
1574 | exit 0 | |
1575 | ||
1576 | ||
1577 | Subject: babyl2mh.pl | |
1578 | From: Appendix | |
1579 | ||
1580 | #!/usr/gnu/bin/perl | |
1581 | # incorporate an RMAIL babyl file into an MH folder | |
1582 | # | |
1583 | # usage: babyl2mh +folder babyl-file | |
1584 | # | |
1585 | # V. Khera <khera@cs.duke.edu> 17-JUL-1991 | |
1586 | ||
1587 | # where to find rcvstore | |
1588 | $rcvstore = "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore"; | |
1589 | ||
1590 | # | |
1591 | # pull out command line args | |
1592 | # | |
1593 | die "usage: babyl2mh +folder babyl-file\n" unless @ARGV == 2; | |
1594 | ||
1595 | $folder = shift; | |
1596 | # make sure folder name starts with a "+" | |
1597 | (substr($folder,0,1) eq "+") || (substr($folder,0,0) = "+"); | |
1598 | $bfname = shift; | |
1599 | ||
1600 | print "Incorporating RMAIL file $bfname into MH folder $folder\n"; | |
1601 | ||
1602 | # | |
1603 | # read in babyl file. | |
1604 | # | |
1605 | $/ = "\037"; # this separates the records in a babyl file | |
1606 | $* = 1; # records are multi-lines | |
1607 | ||
1608 | open(BABYL,$bfname) || die "Couldn't open $bfname\n"; | |
1609 | ||
1610 | $_ = <BABYL>; # discard header. | |
1611 | ||
1612 | $msgnum = 0; | |
1613 | ||
1614 | while (<BABYL>) { | |
1615 | chop; # get rid of delimeter | |
1616 | s/\f(.|\n)*\*\*\* EOOH \*\*\*\n//; # remove duplicate header information | |
1617 | open(RCVSTORE,"|" . $rcvstore . " $folder"); | |
1618 | print RCVSTORE $_; | |
1619 | $msgnum++; | |
1620 | print "Message $msgnum done.\n"; | |
1621 | } | |
1622 | ||
1623 | ||
1624 | Subject: inco | |
1625 | From: Appendix | |
1626 | ||
1627 | #!/bin/sh | |
1628 | # Usage: inco [from [folder]] | |
1629 | # "from" defaults to $HOME/Mail/outbound, "folder" to +inbox. | |
1630 | ||
1631 | lispfile=/tmp/inco.$$.el | |
1632 | input=${1-$HOME/Mail/outbound} | |
1633 | tmpmbox=/tmp/inc.$$.mbox | |
1634 | folder=${2-+inbox} | |
1635 | ||
1636 | if [ $# -ge 3 ]; then | |
1637 | echo Usage: `basename $0` [ from [ folder ]] | |
1638 | exit 2 | |
1639 | fi | |
1640 | ||
1641 | trap "rm -f $lispfile $tmpmbox ; exit 1" 1 2 15 | |
1642 | ||
1643 | touch $tmpmbox | |
1644 | chmod 600 $tmpmbox | |
1645 | ||
1646 | echo '(rmail-input "'$input'") | |
1647 | (rmail-last-message) | |
1648 | (setq last (rmail-what-message)) | |
1649 | (rmail-show-message 1) | |
1650 | (while (not (equal (rmail-what-message) last)) | |
1651 | (rmail-output "'$tmpmbox'") | |
1652 | (rmail-delete-forward nil)) | |
1653 | (rmail-output "'$tmpmbox'") | |
1654 | (kill-buffer (current-buffer)) | |
1655 | ' > $lispfile | |
1656 | ||
1657 | emacs -batch -l $lispfile | |
1658 | inc -file $tmpmbox $folder | |
1659 | ||
1660 | > $input | |
1661 | rm -f $lispfile $tmpmbox | |
1662 | ||
1663 | ||
1664 | Subject: srvrsmtp.c patch | |
1665 | From: Appendix | |
1666 | ||
1667 | >From the 5.67 sources: | |
1668 | ||
1669 | *** srvrsmtp.c- Mon Feb 22 12:25:54 1993 | |
1670 | --- srvrsmtp.c Mon Feb 22 12:29:09 1993 | |
1671 | *************** | |
1672 | *** 384,389 **** | |
1673 | --- 384,395 ---- | |
1674 | message("250", "Reset state"); | |
1675 | if (InChild) | |
1676 | finis(); | |
1677 | + | |
1678 | + /* clean up a bit if running in parent */ | |
1679 | + hasmail = FALSE; | |
1680 | + dropenvelope(CurEnv); | |
1681 | + CurEnv = newenvelope(CurEnv); | |
1682 | + CurEnv->e_flags = BlankEnvelope.e_flags; | |
1683 | break; | |
1684 | ||
1685 | case CMDVRFY: /* vrfy -- verify address */ | |
1686 | ||
1687 | ||
1688 | Local Variables: | |
1689 | mode: outline | |
1690 | outline-regexp: "^Subject:" | |
1691 | fill-prefix: " " | |
1692 | eval: (progn (setq buffer-read-only nil) (hide-body)) | |
1693 | End: | |
1694 | ||
1695 |