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- 0.0 Chapter Introduction
- 0.1 Why Choose MH?
- 0.2 Why Read This Book?
- 0.3 What's in This Book
- 0.4 New in the Third Edition
- 0.5 What Isn't in This Book
- 0.6 Conventions Used in This Book
- 0.7 Request for Comments
- 0.8 Acknowledgments
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- 1.0 Chapter Introduction
- 1.1 What is Email?
- 1.2 How UNIX Email Works
- 1.2.1 Email Transfer Agents
- 1.2.2 Email User Agents
- 1.3 Introduction to MIME
- 1.4 Addressing Email
- 1.5 MH Profile
- 1.6 What Computers Support MH?
- 1.7 Obtaining MH, xmh, exmh, and mh-e
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- 2.0 Chapter Introduction
- 2.1 UNIX Filesystem Overview
- 2.2 MH Programs (Binaries) Directory
- 2.3 MH Library Directory
- 2.4 System Mailboxes
- 2.5 A User's Directories
- 2.5.1 bin Directory
- 2.5.2 The MH Directory and Subdirectories
- 2.6 Special Files for xmh
- 2.7 Special Files for exmh
- 2.8 Links
- 2.8.1 What's a Link?
- 2.8.2 Technical Stuff About Links
- 2.9 Caution About MH Files and Newline Characters
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- 3.0 Chapter Introduction
- 3.1 Overview of MIME Messages
- 3.1.1 Purposes of MIME
- 3.1.2 MIME Header Fields
- 3.1.3 MIME Encoding
- 3.2 Multipart Messages
- 3.2.1 A Sample Multipart Message
- 3.2.2 Multipart/alternative Messages
- 3.2.3 Parts within Parts
- 3.3 More About MIME
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- 4.0 Chapter Introduction
- 4.1 Getting Mail Ready to Read
- 4.2 Setting Up MH
- 4.3 Online Manual Pages
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- 5.0 Chapter Introduction
- 5.1 Getting Started
- 5.2 Sending Some Mail: comp, send
- 5.3 Reading Mail: inc, show, next, prev
- 5.4 Replying to Messages: repl
- 5.5 MH Command-line Switches (Options)
- 5.6 Forwarding Messages: forw
- 5.7 Find and Specify with scan, pick, Ranges, Sequences
- 5.8 Cleanup: rmm
- 5.9 Using MIME
- 5.9.1 Can You Use MIME?
- 5.9.2 Listing MIME Message Contents
- 5.9.3 Reading MIME Mail
- 5.9.4 Sending MIME Mail
- 5.9.5 mhn Can Also Do...
- 5.10 The -help Switches
- 5.11 Other MH Features
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- 6.0 Chapter Introduction
- 6.1 Showing and Printing Messages
- 6.1.1 The Current Message
- 6.1.2 Messages You Haven't Read
- 6.1.3 Weeding Out Before You Read
- 6.1.4 Where's the Next Message?
- 6.1.5 Changing Showproc for Viewing, Printing, and Editing
- 6.1.6 Using mhl
- 6.1.7 Without a showproc
- 6.1.8 Multiple MH Sessions
- 6.1.9 Custom Printing: showpr
- 6.1.10 Showing Multiple Messages
- 6.2 Reading MIME Messages
- 6.2.1 Getting Test MIME Messages
- 6.2.2 The mhnproc
- 6.2.3 How mhn Shows a Message
- 6.2.4 Partial Messages
- 6.2.5 External Parts
- 6.2.6 Cached Contents
- 6.2.7 Showing Part of a MIME Message
- 6.2.8 Decoding Messages with mimecat
- 6.2.9 Checking a MIME Message
- 6.2.10 Alternatives to mhn
- 6.3 Listing MIME Message Parts
- 6.4 More About scan
- 6.4.1 scan Format Files
- 6.4.2 Scanning Backward
- 6.4.3 Scanning a Mailbox File
- 6.5 Checking for Mail Waiting: msgchk
- 6.6 Other Features of inc
- 6.6.1 Logging New Mail with -audit
- 6.6.2 Not Using +inbox
- 6.6.3 Less-used inc Features
- 6.6.4 If New Messages Arrive
- 6.7 Using MH with POP
- 6.8 Batch-process New Mail: autoinc
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- 7.0 Chapter Introduction
- 7.1 Overview: Sending MH Messages
- 7.1.1 Making the Draft from the Template File
- 7.1.2 Editing the Draft with prompter
- 7.1.3 What now? -- and the whatnow Program
- 7.1.4 Add Text to Drafts: mysend
- 7.2 Changing Default Editors
- 7.2.1 Editor-next
- 7.2.2 Replacing the prompter Editor
- 7.3 MH Aliases
- 7.3.1 Making MH Aliases
- 7.3.2 Naming MH Alias Files
- 7.3.3 Showing MH Aliases with ali
- 7.3.4 Aliases in Your Transfer Agent
- 7.4 Header Fields and Addresses
- 7.4.1 Fields You Add to a Header
- 7.4.2 Signature and From:
- 7.4.3 MIME Fields in a Header
- 7.4.4 Editing the Header
- 7.5 Working with Draft Messages
- 7.5.1 Single Draft Messages
- 7.5.2 Draft Folder
- 7.5.3 Deleted Draft Messages
- 7.5.4 Aborted Draft Messages
- 7.5.5 Finish Draft Messages: recomp
- 7.5.6 Work on Draft Folder: scandrafts
- 7.5.7 mhn Editing and automhnproc
- 7.5.8 Recovering Drafts Edited by mhn
- 7.6 Composing and Sending MIME Messages
- 7.6.1 Example Drafts with Directives
- 7.6.2 mhn Directives
- 7.6.3 Partial Messages
- 7.6.4 Adding an Integrity Check
- 7.6.5 How mhn Chooses Encoding
- 7.7 The comp Command
- 7.8 Replying to Mail with repl
- 7.8.1 Selective Replies with -query
- 7.8.2 Selective Replies with -nocc and -cc
- 7.8.3 Changing the Message Header with replcomps
- 7.8.4 Reading Original Message with an Editor
- 7.8.5 Including the Original Message with -filter
- 7.8.6 Displaying the Original Message
- 7.8.7 Annotating the Original Message
- 7.8.8 Replying to Messages with MIME
- 7.9 Forwarding Messages with forw
- 7.9.1 Formatting Forwarded Messages
- 7.9.2 Adding Text to the Draft
- 7.9.3 Leave My Dashes Alone
- 7.9.4 Make Your Messages burst-able
- 7.9.5 No Need for forwcomps
- 7.9.6 Annotating the Original Message
- 7.9.7 Creating Digests
- 7.9.8 Forwarding in MIME Format
- 7.10 Distributing Messages with dist
- 7.10.1 A distcomps File
- 7.10.2 Annotating the Original Message
- 7.10.3 distprompter Edits dist Drafts
- 7.11 Sending Files; Using mhmail and viamail
- 7.11.1 Add Files to Your Drafts: append
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- 8.0 Chapter Introduction
- 8.1 Folders
- 8.1.1 Your Current Folder: folder
- 8.1.2 Using the folder Command to Create and Change Folders
- 8.1.3 Changing to Another Folder
- 8.1.4 Moving and Linking Messages: refile
- 8.1.5 Subfolders
- 8.1.6 Relative Folder Names
- 8.1.7 folder -fast
- 8.1.8 List of All Folders: The folders Command
- 8.1.9 List Folders in Columns with fols
- 8.1.10 Folder Stacks
- 8.1.11 Renumbering Messages in a Folder
- 8.1.12 Working in an MH Directory
- 8.2 Finding Messages with pick
- 8.2.1 pick Switches
- 8.2.2 Passing Message Numbers with Backquotes
- 8.2.3 Storing Message Numbers in MH Sequences
- 8.2.4 Storing Sequence Name in Your MH Profile
- 8.2.5 Combining pick Switches
- 8.2.6 picking Miscellaneous Fields
- 8.2.7 How Searches Find Messages
- 8.2.8 Searching a Message Range or Sequence
- 8.2.9 Searching More Than One Folder
- 8.2.10 Easier Searches with a `Link Folder'
- 8.3 More About Sequences
- 8.3.1 Adding Messages to a Sequence
- 8.3.2 Deleting Messages from a Sequence
- 8.3.3 Listing Sequences
- 8.3.4 Previous-Sequence, Sequence-Negation
- 8.3.5 The unseen Sequence
- 8.3.6 The cur Sequence
- 8.3.7 Public and Private Sequences
- 8.4 Storing Messages
- 8.4.1 Copying a Message to a File
- 8.4.2 Saving Filesystem Space
- 8.4.3 Decoding and Storing MIME Messages
- 8.5 Sorting Messages: sortm
- 8.5.1 Sort by Any Field
- 8.5.2 Date Limit
- 8.6 Removing and Recovering Messages
- 8.6.1 How rmm Removes Messages
- 8.6.2 Recovering a Removed Message
- 8.6.3 Changing Your rmmproc
- 8.6.4 Improve rmm: use rmmer
- 8.7 Removing Folders: rmf
- 8.8 Annotating Headers with anno
- 8.9 Using Links
- 8.9.1 Making Links
- 8.9.2 Are These Two Messages Linked?
- 8.9.3 A Folder Full of Links
- 8.9.4 Links Between Users
- 8.9.5 Using Symbolic Links
- 8.10 Bursting Messages
- 8.11 Pack Messages into a File
- 8.11.1 MMDF Format: packf
- 8.11.2 UUCP/Sendmail Format: packmbox
- 8.12 MH Shell on a Mailbox File: msh
- 8.12.1 Overview of msh
- 8.12.2 Handling New Mail with msh
- 8.12.3 msh and Your MH Profile
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- 9.0 Chapter Introduction
- 9.1 Running an MH Command
- 9.2 MH and the Shell
- 9.2.1 Using Shell Aliases and Functions with MH
- 9.2.2 Using Shell Variables with MH
- 9.3 An MH Profile, in General
- 9.4 Configuring mhn
- 9.4.1 Profiles that mhn Reads
- 9.4.2 Making an MHN Profile
- 9.4.3 What Profile Entries Are There?
- 9.4.4 Showing Contents: mhn-show-
- 9.4.5 Displaying Other Character Sets: mhn-charset-
- 9.4.6 Composing Content: mhn-compose-
- 9.4.7 Storing Content: mhn-storage and mhn-store-
- 9.4.8 Caching External Body Parts: mhn-cache and mhn-private-cache
- 9.4.9 Getting External Body Parts by FTP: mhn-access-ftp
- 9.4.10 The automhnproc
- 9.5 International Character Support
- 9.6 Changing MH Directory Name
- 9.7 Setting Access Permissions for Other Accounts
- 9.8 Defining Alternate Mailboxes
- 9.9 Sharing Other Users' Folders
- 9.10 Draft Message Template Files
- 9.10.1 How the Draft Message is Built
- 9.10.2 The components File
- 9.10.3 The replcomps File
- Special subsection of 9.10.3: replcomps lines 1-2 before MH 6.8
- 9.10.4 The forwcomps File
- 9.10.5 The digestcomps File
- 9.10.6 The distcomps File
- 9.11 Periodic Cleanup, Checking, etc. with cron and at
- 9.11.1 Caution
- 9.11.2 Starting cron Jobs
- 9.11.3 Starting at Jobs
- 9.11.4 Note about Times
- 9.11.5 Output and Errors
- 9.11.6 List Old Drafts
- 9.11.7 Remove Messages from rmmer
- 9.11.8 Cleaning Up Old Messages
- 9.12 Automatic Signature on End of Messages
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- 10.0 Chapter Introduction
- 10.1 What's a New Command Version?
- 10.2 Making a New Command Version
- 10.2.1 Setup Before You Make First New Version
- 10.2.2 What to Do for Each New Version
- 10.3 Writing Command Versions as Aliases or Functions
- 10.4 Versions of repl
- 10.4.1 Including Original Message in Reply: replx
- 10.4.2 Standard Replies: thanks
- 10.4.3 Followup Mail Messages: foll, follx
- 10.4.4 Reply from Another Address: replb
- 10.5 Make Message Bookmarks with mark
- 10.6 msg: `While You Were Out' Messages with comp
- 10.7 Versions of forw
- 10.7.1 Use forw to Resend a Returned Message
- 10.7.2 Filter Forwarded MIME Messages: mforw
- 10.8 Edit Messages with show: mhedit
- 10.9 Show MIME Message Parts with showpart
- 10.10 Append Text with prompter.nopre
- 10.11 Version of send: push
- 10.12 Versions of scan
- 10.12.1 Scanning Message Ranges: cur, c10, l5, etc.
- 10.12.2 Scan and Show Size of Message: sscan
- 10.12.3 Scan Messages Waiting: msgscan
- 10.12.4 Get Message Number List: msgnums
- 10.13 Fast Folder Changes with fo
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- 11.0 Chapter Introduction
- 11.1 mhl
- 11.1.1 Formatting the Message Header
- 11.1.2 Formatting the Message Body
- 11.1.3 Default mhl Format File for show
- 11.1.4 forw Filter Files
- 11.1.5 Screen Size and moreproc
- 11.1.6 Summary of mhl
- 11.2 MH Format Strings
- 11.2.1 scan Format Strings
- 11.2.2 scan Format Files
- 11.2.3 The scan.answer Format File
- 11.2.4 The Default scan Format File
- 11.2.5 More Header Information: scan.hdr
- 11.2.6 scan Widths
- 11.2.7 The scan.dateparse Format File
- 11.2.8 The scan.more Format File
- 11.2.9 The replcomps.addrfix Format File
- 11.2.10 The rcvtty.format File
- 11.2.11 The rcvdistcomps File
- 11.2.12 Summary of MH Format Strings
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- 12.0 Chapter Introduction
- 12.1 The .maildelivery File: Overview
- 12.2 The .maildelivery File in Detail
- 12.2.1 First .maildelivery Argument: Field
- 12.2.2 Second .maildelivery Argument: Pattern
- 12.2.3 Third .maildelivery Argument: Action
- 12.2.4 Fourth .maildelivery Argument: Result
- 12.2.5 Fifth .maildelivery Argument: String
- 12.2.6 Undocumented Arguments 6-8: select
- 12.3 Running Your .maildelivery File
- 12.4 Experimenting? Make Backups!
- 12.5 New Message Notification: rcvtty
- 12.5.1 Where rcvtty Notifies You
- 12.5.2 How rcvtty Notifies You
- 12.5.3 Using a Message Preprocessor
- 12.6 Storing in Folders: rcvstore
- 12.7 Redistributing Messages: rcvdist
- 12.7.1 Running rcvdist from .maildelivery
- 12.7.2 Automatic Folder Copies
- 12.7.3 Watch Out for Mail Loops
- 12.8 Storing in Mailbox Files: rcvpack
- 12.9 Alternatives to mhook Programs
- 12.9.1 Replacing All of Your .maildelivery File
- 12.9.2 The vacation Mail Handler
- 12.9.3 Running Your Own Mail Handler
- 12.9.4 Replacing rcvtty with Pop-Up Windows
- 12.9.5 Processing with at or cron or by Hand
- 12.10 Practical Tips
- 12.10.1 Finding Mail from Mailing Lists
- 12.10.2 Handing Periodic Mail
- 12.10.3 Think About cc:, Resent-To:, ...
- 12.10.4 System Aliases, the to and addr Fields
- 12.10.5 Flagging Important Mail
- 12.10.6 Making Your Mail Follow You
- 12.10.7 Splitting Mail to Several Places
- 12.11 Debugging Tips
- 12.11.1 slocal Documentation vs. Real Life
- 12.11.2 Catching slocal Errors
- 12.11.3 Even -debug Doesn't Show Syntax Errors
- 12.11.4 slocal Eats .maildelivery Errors
- 12.11.5 Most Environment Variables Hidden
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- 13.0 Chapter Introduction
- 13.1 Writing Shell Scripts for MH
- 13.2 Using MH from Other Languages
- 13.3 How Does Your System Execute Files?
- 13.4 Shell Command Substitution
- 13.5 Using Exit Status
- 13.6 Looping Through a List of Arguments
- 13.7 Finding Program Name; Multiple Program Names
- 13.8 A Test Mail Setup
- 13.9 Mailing Non-interactively: mhmail
- 13.10 The mhpath Command
- 13.11 Getting Message Numbers
- 13.12 Settings from the MH Profile
- 13.13 Settings from the Environment
- 13.14 Changing the MH Environment
- 13.15 Writing Your Own Draft Message Editor(s)
- 13.16 Get Information with scan Format Strings
- 13.17 Watch Out for the MH Profile
- 13.18 Problems with folder, inc, and refile
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- 14.0 Chapter Introduction
- 14.1 Getting Started
- 14.2 Running xmh
- 14.3 What's in the xmh Window
- 14.4 Sending Mail
- 14.5 Getting New Mail
- 14.6 Replying to Mail
- 14.7 Changing Sizes of Each Area
- 14.8 Searching for Messages
- 14.9 Forwarding Messages
- 14.10 Removing Messages
- 14.11 Leaving xmh
- 14.12 More About xmh
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- 15.0 Chapter Introduction
- 15.1 Sending Mail
- 15.1.1 Draft Messages and the drafts Folder
- 15.1.2 Changing the Draft Message Header
- 15.1.3 More About Forwarding
- 15.1.4 More About Replying
- 15.1.5 Resend Messages with Use As Composition
- 15.1.6 Aliases
- 15.2 Scrollbars
- 15.2.1 When They Appear
- 15.2.2 Length and Position of the Thumb
- 15.2.3 Moving the Thumb
- 15.3 Editing in xmh
- 15.3.1 Text Editing Commands
- 15.3.2 Search and Replace
- 15.3.3 Composition Window Buttons
- 15.3.4 Reformatting Paragraphs
- 15.3.5 Line Wrapping
- 15.3.6 Copy and Paste
- 15.3.7 Use Another Editor
- 15.4 Reading Your Mail
- 15.4.1 Incorporate New Mail
- 15.4.2 View Window
- 15.4.3 Line Folding
- 15.5 Printing Your Mail
- 15.6 Organizing Messages with Folders
- 15.6.1 Making a New Folder
- 15.6.2 Folders and Subfolders
- 15.6.3 Using Another Folder
- 15.6.4 Moving Messages Between Folders
- 15.6.5 Linking (not Copying) Messages Between Folders
- 15.6.6 Deleting (and Restoring) Messages
- 15.6.7 Rescan Folder
- 15.6.8 Viewed Message vs. Viewed Folder
- 15.6.9 Packing a Folder
- 15.6.10 Sorting a Folder
- 15.6.11 Deleting a Folder
- 15.7 Introduction to Sequences
- 15.8 Using Pick
- 15.8.1 A Pick Example
- 15.8.2 Using the Big -Or- Button
- 15.8.3 Find Other Fields, Skip Fields
- 15.8.4 Bottom Area of the Pick Window
- 15.9 Modifying Sequences
- 15.10 The Master xmh Window
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- 16.0 Chapter Introduction
- 16.1 Command-line Settings
- 16.2 Command-line Options
- 16.2.1 MH Directory Path
- 16.2.2 Initial Folder
- 16.2.3 Toolkit Options
- 16.3 Changing How Commands Work
- 16.3.1 HideBoringHeaders
- 16.3.2 PrintCommand
- 16.3.3 ReplyInsertFilter
- 16.3.4 SendBreakWidth
- 16.3.5 SendWidth
- 16.3.6 SkipCopied, SkipDeleted, SkipMoved
- 16.3.7 TocGeometry
- 16.3.8 TocWidth
- 16.3.9 ShapeStyle
- 16.3.10 Summary of Resources
- 16.4 Changing Buttons; Accelerators
- 16.4.1 New Accelerator for Compose Message
- 16.4.2 Redefining Composition Window Buttons
- 16.4.3 A New Buttonbox for the Main Windows
- 16.4.4 Adding Color
- 16.4.5 Moving a Message to a Specific Folder
- 16.4.6 Changing Command Options with edprofile
- 16.4.7 Use an External Editor
- 16.5 Conflicts Between xmh and MH Customization
- 16.6 Template Draft Files Set Headers
- 16.7 Changing Table of Contents
- 16.7.1 Introduction
- 16.7.2 Using a Standard scan Format File
- 16.7.3 A Wider Table of Contents
- 16.8 Changing the Print Command
- 16.8.1 Grabbing Error Output
- 16.8.2 Printing with lpr and lp
- 16.8.3 Other Printer Commands
- 16.8.4 A Better xmh Printer: xmhprint
- 16.9 Snooping on xmh
- 16.9.1 Use the debug Resource
- 16.9.2 Use Accounting Information
- 16.9.3 Make a Front End Shell Script
- 16.9.4 Read the Source Code
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- 17.0 Chapter Introduction
- 17.1 GNU Emacs Terms and Conventions
- 17.2 Getting Started
- 17.3 Sending Mail
- 17.4 Receiving Mail
- 17.5 Processing Mail
- 17.6 Leaving mh-e
- 17.7 More About mh-e
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- 18.0 Chapter Introduction
- 18.1 Reading Your Mail
- 18.1.1 Viewing Your Mail
- 18.1.2 Moving Around
- 18.2 Sending Mail
- 18.2.1 Replying to Mail
- 18.2.2 Forwarding Mail
- 18.2.3 Redistributing Your Mail
- 18.2.4 Editing Old Drafts and Bounced Messages
- 18.3 Editing a Draft
- 18.3.1 Editing Textual Messages
- 18.3.2 Editing Multimedia Messages
- 18.3.3 Sending a Message
- 18.3.4 Killing the Draft
- 18.4 Moving Your Mail Around
- 18.4.1 Incorporating Your Mail
- 18.4.2 Deleting Your Mail
- 18.4.3 Organizing Your Mail with Folders
- 18.4.4 Printing Your Mail
- 18.4.5 Files and Pipes
- 18.4.6 Finishing Up
- 18.5 Searching Through Messages
- 18.6 Using Sequences
- 18.7 Miscellaneous Commands
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- 19.0 Chapter Introduction
- 19.1 Reading Your Mail
- 19.1.1 Viewing Your Mail
- 19.1.2 Moving Around
- 19.2 Sending Mail
- 19.2.1 Replying to Mail
- 19.2.2 Forwarding Mail
- 19.2.3 Redistributing Your Mail
- 19.2.4 Editing Old Drafts and Bounced Messages
- 19.3 Editing a Draft
- 19.3.1 Editing Textual Messages
- 19.3.2 Editing Multimedia Messages
- 19.3.3 Sending a Message
- 19.4 Moving Your Mail Around
- 19.4.1 Incorporating Your Mail
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- 19.4.2 Deleting Your Mail
- 19.4.3 Organizing Your Mail with Folders
- 19.4.4 Printing Your Mail
- 19.4.5 Files and Pipes
- 19.4.6 Finishing Up
- 19.5 Searching Through Messages
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- 20.0 Chapter Introduction
- 20.1 Getting Started
- 20.2 Running exmh
- 20.3 The exmh Display
- 20.4 Sending Mail
- 20.5 A Note about Cut and Paste
- 20.6 Getting New Mail
- 20.7 Reading MIME Messages
- 20.8 Replying to Mail
- 20.9 Selecting Multiple Messages
- 20.9.1 Using the Mouse
- 20.9.2 Searching with Pick
- 20.9.3 Fast Search
- 20.10 Forwarding Messages
- 20.11 Deleting Messages
- 20.12 Preferences
- 20.13 Leaving exmh
- 20.14 More about exmh
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- 21.0 Chapter Introduction
- 21.1 Mousing Around
- 21.2 Keyboard Commands
- 21.3 The exmh Display
- 21.4 Folder Display
- 21.5 Folder Cache
- 21.6 Table of Contents
- 21.7 Message Display
- 21.8 Managing Messages
- 21.8.1 Deleting Messages
- 21.8.2 Refiling Messages
- 21.8.3 Undo
- 21.8.4 Linking Messages
- 21.8.5 Auto Commit
- 21.8.6 Implied Direction
- 21.8.7 Skipping Marked Messages
- 21.8.8 Changing Folders Automatically
- 21.9 Sending Mail
- 21.9.1 Sending a New Message
- 21.9.2 Replying to a Message
- 21.9.3 Forwarding a Message
- 21.9.4 Using an Existing Message as a Template
- 21.10 Mail Aliases
- 21.11 The Built-in Editor
- 21.11.1 Editing Commands
- 21.11.2 Sending a Message
- 21.11.3 Saving a Draft
- 21.11.4 Aborting a Draft
- 21.11.5 Signatures
- 21.11.6 PGP
- 21.12 Mail Formatting
- 21.12.1 Line Breaks
- 21.12.2 Changing Fonts
- 21.12.3 Inserting Files
- 21.13 MIME Formatting
- 21.14 Faces
- 21.14.1 Facesaver Database
- 21.14.2 X-Face Header Fields
- 21.15 Using Another Editor
- 21.16 Filtering Mail
- 21.16.1 Filtering and the Unseen Sequence
- 21.16.2 Incorporating Mail
- 21.16.3 Mail Filtering File Examples
- 21.17 Tips
- 21.17.1 Background Processing
- 21.17.2 Scan Caches
- 21.17.3 Optimizing Message Display
- 21.17.4 More Keyboard Stuff
- 21.17.5 Large Folders
- 21.18 Tk Send and Xauthority
- 21.19 More Information
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- 22.0 Chapter Introduction
- 22.1 Preferences
- 22.2 Preference Sections
- 22.3 Binding User Interface
- 22.4 MH Profile
- 22.5 X Resources
- 22.6 Widget Class Hierarchy
- 22.7 Resources for Buttons
- 22.8 Resources for Menus
- 22.9 Button Groups
- 22.10 Color Resources
- 22.11 Colorizing Header Fields
- 22.12 Geometry and Position Resources
- 22.13 Icon Positions
- 22.14 Folder Display Resources
- 22.15 MIME Resources
- 22.16 Programming exmh
- 22.17 Code Organization
- 22.17.1 Main Scripts
- 22.17.2 Library
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- A.0 Appendix Introduction
- A.1 MH BBoards
- A.2 More Information About MH
- A.2.1 Documents Distributed with MH
- A.2.2 The MH Source Code
- A.2.3 Usenet Newsgroup
- A.2.4 Mailing Lists
- A.2.5 The FAQ
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- B.0 Appendix Introduction
- B.1 History of MH
- B.1.1 Overview
- B.1.2 From Bruce Borden
- B.1.3 From Stockton Gaines
- B.1.4 The Original MH Proposal
- B.2 History of xmh
- B.3 The History of exmh
- B.4 Early History of mh-e
- B.4.1 From Brian Reid
- B.4.2 From Jim Larus
- B.4.3 From Stephen Gildea
- B.5 Changes to mh-e
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- C.0 Appendix Introduction
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- D.0 Appendix Introduction
- D.1 Obtaining Example Files From This Book
- D.1.1 World Wide Web and Gopher
- D.1.2 FTP
- D.1.3 Ftpmail
- D.1.4 BITFTP
- D.1.5 UUCP
- D.2 FAQ
- D.3 RFCs and Internet Drafts
- D.4 MH
- D.5 MH Scripts and Examples
- D.6 Metamail
- D.7 mh-e
- D.8 exmh
- D.9 Programs in This Book's Archive
- D.10 Explanation of append
- D.11 Explanation of autoinc
- D.12 Explanation of distprompter
- D.13 Explanation of edprofile
- D.14 The execit Programs
- D.15 Explanation of fols
- D.16 Explanation of mhprofile
- D.17 Explanation of mimecat
- D.18 Explanation of mysend
- D.19 Explanation of original
- D.20 Explanation of recomp
- D.21 Explanation of resend
- D.22 Explanation of rmmer
- D.23 Explanation of scandrafts
- D.24 Explanation of showpr
- D.25 Explanation of storeparts
- D.26 Explanation of xmhprint
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- E.0 Appendix Introduction
- E.1 MH Reference Guide
- E.1.1 ali Reference Guide
- E.1.2 anno Reference Guide
- E.1.3 burst Reference Guide
- E.1.4 comp Reference Guide
- E.1.5 dist Reference Guide
- E.1.6 folder Reference Guide
- E.1.7 folders Reference Guide
- E.1.8 forw Reference Guide
- E.1.9 inc Reference Guide
- E.1.10 mark Reference Guide
- E.1.11 mhl Reference Guide
- E.1.12 mhmail Reference Guide
- E.1.13 mhn Reference Guide
- E.1.14 mhparam Reference Guide
- E.1.15 mhpath Reference Guide
- E.1.16 msgchk Reference Guide
- E.1.17 msh Reference Guide
- E.1.18 next Reference Guide
- E.1.19 packf Reference Guide
- E.1.20 packmbox Reference Guide
- E.1.21 pick Reference Guide
- E.1.22 prev Reference Guide
- E.1.23 prompter Reference Guide
- E.1.24 rcvdist Reference Guide
- E.1.25 rcvpack Reference Guide
- E.1.26 rcvstore Reference Guide
- E.1.27 rcvtty Reference Guide
- E.1.28 refile Reference Guide
- E.1.29 repl Reference Guide
- E.1.30 rmf Reference Guide
- E.1.31 rmm Reference Guide
- E.1.32 scan Reference Guide
- E.1.33 send Reference Guide
- E.1.34 show Reference Guide
- E.1.35 slocal Reference Guide
- E.1.36 sortm Reference Guide
- E.1.37 viamail Reference Guide
- E.1.38 whatnow Reference Guide
- E.1.39 whom Reference Guide
- E.2 xmh Reference Guide
- Table 1. Folder (Menu of global commands)
- Table 2. Table of Contents (Menu for handling viewed folder)
- Table 3. Message (Menu for handling current or selected message)
- Table 4. Sequence (Menu for message sequences and searching)
- Table 5. View (Menu for handling viewed message)
- Table 6. Options (Menu that may be longer some day)
- Table 7. Composition window (Buttonbox for handling drafts)
- Table 8. xmh Text Editing Commands (Adapted from xmh(1) manual page)
- E.3 mh-e Reference Guide
- E.4 exmh Reference Guide
- E.4.1 Command-line Options
- E.4.2 Main Buttons and Menus
- E.4.3 Folder Buttons and Menus
- E.4.4 Message Buttons and Menus
- E.4.5 sedit Buttons and Menus
- E.4.6 What Now Buttons and Menus
- E.4.7 External Editor Interface
- E.4.8 Command Keys
- E.4.9 Editing Keys
- E.5 MIME Reference Guide
- E.5.1 Some MIME Content Types and Subtypes
- E.5.2 Syntax of mhn Directives
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Last change $Date: 1996/07/14 22:50:00 $
This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email
for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek.
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