More Information About MH

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Amazingly, not a lot has been written about MH. This book is the first work of this depth that I know of. Here are some ways to find out more about MH.

Documents Distributed with MH

The MH distribution has a directory called papers with tutorials, detailed descriptions of applications, and related programs. MH also comes with an Administrator's Guide, a good place to learn about installing MH and to discover some of its inner workings.

The MH Source Code

MH is written in the C programming language. One way to find out what it does is in classic UNIX hackers' style: read the code. Most of the code is clean and modular.

World Wide Web Pages

Here are some World Wide Web pages for the software.

MH is at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/.
nmh is at http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/.
exmh is at http://www.beedub.com/exmh/.
MH-E is at http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/.

Usenet Newsgroup

If you read the Usenet "netnews," the comp.mail.mh newsgroup is a good place to read about MH -- and post questions, if you have them. One place to read and post, as of mid-2003, was Google Groups at http://groups.google.com/.

Mailing Lists

The old mh-users and mh-workers mailing lists have been disabled. As of this printing, old mh-users articles since 1986 or so were archived on ftp.ics.uci.edu. They're available from the mh/mh-users directory. If you can't use the link above, see the Sections of this book on FTP and ftpmail.

Here are two of the mailing lists about nmh:

nmh-announce: a read-only list for announcements of new releases, etc.
nmh-workers: a list for discussing the work related to updating, changing, and general hacking on nmh.

Here are three mailing lists for exmh:

exmh-announce@redhat.com receives occasional messages about new releases of exmh.
exmh-users@redhat.com is for general Q&A about exmh. This list gets all the exmh-announce messages too.
exmh-workers@redhat.com is for hacking on the implementation.

To subscribe to a list, send a message to exmh-list-request with a "subscribe" command in the Subject field. For example, to subscribe to exmh-announce:

From: your-address@somewhere.com
To: exmh-announce-request@redhat.com
Subject: subscribe

What's in the body doesn't matter.

To join a mailing list about mh-e, go to http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=13357.

The FAQ

The FAQ or Frequently Asked Questions document that is posted to comp.mail.mh every month is an excellent source of information. There you can read about often encountered problems and their solutions, as well as interesting tricks. A partial list of what's covered includes:

The current version and status of MH.
Additional MH references not listed in this Appendix.
Additional interfaces to MH as well as packages that utilize MH.
Common installation problems.
Common run-time problems.
Information on mh-e and xmh.

You can read the FAQ in the newsgroup, or see the Section FAQ to see how you can get the FAQ by ftp or by mail.

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This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This file is freely available; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see the file copying.htm.

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