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NAME
nmh - new MH message system
SYNOPSIS
any nmh command
DESCRIPTION
nmh is the name of a powerful message handling system.
Rather than being a single comprehensive program, nmh
consists of a collection of fairly simple single-purpose
programs to send, retrieve, save, and manipulate messages.
Unlike most mail clients in UNIX, nmh is not a closed system
which must be explicitly run, then exited when you wish to
return to the shell. You may freely intersperse nmh
commands with other shell commands, allowing you to read and
answer your mail while you have (for example) a compilation
running, or search for a file or run programs as needed to
find the answer to someone's question before answering their
mail.
The rest of this manual entry is a quick tutorial which will
teach you the basics of nmh. You should read the manual
entries for the individual programs for complete
documentation.
To get started using nmh, put the directory
/usr/freeware/bin on your $PATH. This is best done in one
of the files: .profile, .login, or .cshrc in your home
directory. (Check the manual entry for the shell you use,
in case you don't know how to do this.) Run the inc
command. If you've never used nmh before, it will create
the necessary default files and directories after asking you
if you wish it to do so.
inc moves mail from your system maildrop into your nmh
`+inbox' folder, breaking it up into separate files and
converting it to nmh format as it goes. It prints one line
for each message it processes, containing the from field,
the subject field and as much of the first line of the
message as will fit. It leaves the first message it
processes as your current message. You'll need to run inc
each time you wish to incorporate new mail into your nmh
file.
scan prints a list of the messages in your current folder.
The commands: show, next, and prev are used to read specific
messages from the current folder. show displays the current
message, or a specific message, which may be specified by
its number, which you pass as an argument to show. next and
prev display, respectively, the message numerically after or
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before the current message. In all cases, the message
displayed becomes the current message. If there is no
current message, show may be called with an argument, or
next may be used to advance to the first message.
rmm (remove message) deletes the current message. It may be
called with message numbers passed as arguments, to delete
specific messages.
repl is used to respond to the current message (by default).
It places you in the editor with a prototype response form.
While you're in the editor, you may peruse the item you're
responding to by reading the file @. After completing your
response, type l to list (review) it, or s to send it.
comp allows you to compose a message by putting you in the
editor on a prototype message form, and then lets you send
it.
All the nmh commands may be run with the single argument:
`-help', which causes them to print a list of the arguments
they may be invoked with and then exit.
All the nmh commands may be run with the single argument:
`-version', which cause them to print the version number of
the nmh distribution, and then exit.
Commands which take a message number as an argument (scan,
show, repl, ...) also take one of the words: first, prev,
cur, next, or last to indicate (respectively) the first,
previous, current, next, or last message in the current
folder (assuming they are defined).
Commands which take a range of message numbers (rmm, scan,
show, ...) also take any of the abbreviations:
<num1>-<num2> - Indicates all messages in the range <num1>
to <num2>, inclusive. The range must be nonempty.
<num>:+N
<num>:-N - Up to N messages beginning with (or ending
with) message num. Num may be any of the pre-defined
symbols: first, prev, cur, next or last.
first:N
prev:N
next:N
last:N - The first, previous, next or last N messages, if
they exist.
There are many other possibilities such as creating multiple
folders for different topics, and automatically refiling
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messages according to subject, source, destination, or
content. These are beyond the scope of this manual entry.
Following is a list of all the nmh commands:
ali (1) - list mail aliases
anno (1) - annotate messages
burst (1) - explode digests into messages
comp (1) - compose a message
dist (1) - redistribute a message to additional addresses
flist (1) - list folders that contain messages in given sequence(s)
flists (1) - list all folders that contain messages in given sequence(s)
folder (1) - set/list current folder/message
folders (1) - list all folders
forw (1) - forward messages
inc (1) - incorporate new mail
mark (1) - mark messages
mhbuild (1) - translate MIME composition draft
mhl (1) - produce formatted listings of nmh messages
mhlist (1) - list information about content of MIME messages
mhmail (1) - send or read mail
mhn (1) - display/list/store/cache MIME messages
mhparam (1) - print nmh profile components
mhpath (1) - print full pathnames of nmh messages and folders
mhshow (1) - display MIME messages
mhstore (1) - store contents of MIME messages into files
msgchk (1) - check for messages
msh (1) - nmh shell (and BBoard reader)
next (1) - show the next message
packf (1) - compress a folder into a single file
pick (1) - select messages by content
prev (1) - show the previous message
prompter (1) - prompting editor front end
rcvdist (1) - asynchronously redistribute new mail
rcvpack (1) - append message to file
rcvstore (1) - asynchronously incorporate new mail
rcvtty (1) - report new mail
refile (1) - file messages in other folders
repl (1) - reply to a message
rmf (1) - remove folder
rmm (1) - remove messages
scan (1) - produce a one line per message scan listing
send (1) - send a message
sendfiles (1) - send multiple files and directories in MIME message
show (1) - show (display) messages
slocal (1) - asynchronously filter and deliver new mail
sortm (1) - sort messages
whatnow (1) - prompting front-end for send
whom (1) - report to whom a message would go
mh-alias (5) - alias file for nmh message system
mh-draft (5) - draft folder facility
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mh-format (5) - format file for nmh message system
mh-mail (5) - message format for nmh message system
mh-profile (5) - user customization for nmh message system
mh-sequence (5)- sequence specification for nmh message system
ap (8) - parse addresses 822-style
conflict (8) - search for alias/password conflicts
dp (8) - parse dates 822-style
fmtdump (8) - decode nmh format files
install-mh (8) - initialize the nmh environment
post (8) - deliver a message
FILES
/usr/freeware/bin directory containing nmh commands
/usr/freeware/lib/nmh/etc directory containing nmh format files
/usr/freeware/lib/nmh nmh library commands
BUGS
If problems are encountered with an nmh program, the
problems should be reported to the local maintainers of nmh.
When doing this, the name of the program should be reported,
along with the version information for the program.
To find out what version of an nmh program is being run,
invoke the program with the `-version' switch. This
information includes the version of nmh, the host it was
generated on, and the date the program was loaded.
Send bug reports and suggestions to nmh-workers@mhost.com.
FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To determine the user's nmh directory
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