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6 nmh - new MH message system
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9 any nmh command
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12 nmh is the name of a powerful message handling system. Rather than
13 being a single comprehensive program, nmh consists of a collection of
14 fairly simple single-purpose programs to send, retrieve, save, and
15 manipulate messages.
16 Unlike most mail clients in UNIX, nmh is not a closed system which must
18 be explicitly run, then exited when you wish to return to the shell.
19 You may freely intersperse nmh commands with other shell commands,
20 allowing you to read and answer your mail while you have (for example)
21 a compilation running, or search for a file or run programs as needed
22 to find the answer to someone's question before answering their mail.
23 The rest of this manual entry is a quick tutorial which will teach you
25 the basics of nmh. You should read the manual entries for the individ‐
26 ual programs for complete documentation.
27 To get started using nmh, put the directory /usr/bin on your $PATH.
29 This is best done in one of the files: .profile, .login, .bashrc, or
30 .cshrc in your home directory. (Check the manual entry for the shell
31 you use, in case you don't know how to do this.) Run the install-mh
32 command. If you've never used nmh before, it will create the necessary
33 default files and directories after asking you if you wish it to do so.
34 inc moves mail from your system maildrop into your nmh `+inbox' folder,
36 breaking it up into separate files and converting it to nmh format as
37 it goes. It prints one line for each message it processes, containing
38 the from field, the subject field and as much of the first line of the
39 message as will fit. It leaves the first message it processes as your
40 current message. You'll need to run inc each time you wish to incorpo‐
41 rate new mail into your nmh file.
42 scan prints a list of the messages in your current folder.
44 The commands: show, next, and prev are used to read specific messages
46 from the current folder. show displays the current message, or a spe‐
47 cific message, which may be specified by its number, which you pass as
48 an argument to show. next and prev display, respectively, the message
49 numerically after or before the current message. In all cases, the
50 message displayed becomes the current message. If there is no current
51 message, show may be called with an argument, or next may be used to
52 advance to the first message.
53 rmm (remove message) deletes the current message. It may be called
55 with message numbers passed as arguments, to delete specific messages.
56 repl is used to respond to the current message (by default). It places
58 you in the editor with a prototype response form. While you're in the
59 editor, you may peruse the item you're responding to by reading the
60 file @. After completing your response, type l to list (review) it, or
61 s to send it.
62 comp allows you to compose a message by putting you in the editor on a
64 prototype message form, and then lets you send it.
65 All the nmh commands may be run with the single argument: -help, which
67 causes them to print a list of the arguments they may be invoked with
68 and then exit.
69 All the nmh commands may be run with the single argument: -version,
71 which cause them to print the version number of the nmh distribution,
72 and then exit.
73 Commands which take a message number as an argument ( scan, show, repl,
75 ...) also take one of the words: “first”, “prev”, “cur”, “next”, or
76 “last” to indicate (respectively) the first, previous, current, next,
77 or last message in the current folder (assuming they are defined).
78 Commands which take a range of message numbers ( rmm, scan, show, ...)
80 also take any of the abbreviations:
81 <num1>-<num2> Indicates all messages in the range <num1> to
83 <num2>, inclusive. The range must be nonempty.
84 <num>:+N
86 <num>:-N Up to N messages beginning with (or ending with)
88 message num. Num may be any of the pre-defined
89 symbols: first, prev, cur, next or last.
90 first:N
92 prev:N
94 next:N
96 last:N The first, previous, next or last messages, if they
98 exist.
99 There are many other possibilities such as creating multiple folders
101 for different topics, and automatically refiling messages according to
102 subject, source, destination, or content. These are beyond the scope
103 of this manual entry.
104 Following is a list of all the nmh commands:
106 ali(1) - list mail aliases
108 anno(1) - annotate messages
109 burst(1) - explode digests into messages
110 comp(1) - compose a message
111 dist(1) - redistribute a message to additional addresses
112 flist(1) - list folders with messages in given sequence(s)
113 flists(1) - list all folders with messages in given sequence(s)
114 folder(1) - set/list current folder/message
115 folders(1) - list all folders
116 forw(1) - forward messages
117 inc(1) - incorporate new mail
118 mark(1) - mark messages
119 mhbuild(1) - translate MIME composition draft
120 mhl(1) - produce formatted listings of nmh messages
121 mhlist(1) - list information about content of MIME messages
122 mhmail(1) - send or read mail
123 mhn(1) - display/list/store/cache MIME messages
124 mhparam(1) - print nmh profile components
125 mhpath(1) - print full pathnames of nmh messages and folders
126 mhshow(1) - display MIME messages
127 mhstore(1) - store contents of MIME messages into files
128 msgchk(1) - check for messages
129 msh(1) - nmh shell(and BBoard reader)
130 next(1) - show the next message
131 packf(1) - compress a folder into a single file
132 pick(1) - select messages by content
133 prev(1) - show the previous message
134 prompter(1) - prompting editor front end
135 rcvdist(1) - asynchronously redistribute new mail
136 rcvpack(1) - append message to file
137 rcvstore(1) - asynchronously incorporate new mail
138 rcvtty(1) - report new mail
139 refile(1) - file messages in other folders
140 repl(1) - reply to a message
141 rmf(1) - remove folder
142 rmm(1) - remove messages
143 scan(1) - produce a one line per message scan listing
144 send(1) - send a message
145 sendfiles(1) - send multiple files and directories in MIME message
146 show(1) - show(display) messages
147 slocal(1) - asynchronously filter and deliver new mail
148 sortm(1) - sort messages
149 whatnow(1) - prompting front-end for send
150 whom(1) - report to whom a message would go
151 mh-alias(5) - alias file for nmh message system
153 mh-draft(5) - draft folder facility
154 mh-format(5) - format file for nmh message system
155 mh-mail(5) - message format for nmh message system
156 mh-profile(5) - user customization for nmh message system
157 mh-sequence(5) - sequence specification for nmh message system
158 mh-tailor(5) - mail transport customization for nmh message system
159 ap(8) - parse addresses 822-style
161 conflict(8) - search for alias/password conflicts
162 dp(8) - parse dates 822-style
163 fmtdump(8) - decode nmh format files
164 install-mh(8) - initialize the nmh environment
165 post(8) - deliver a message
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169 /usr/bin contains nmh commands
170 /etc/nmh contains nmh format files
171 /usr/libexec/nmh contains nmh library commands
172 $HOME/.mh_profile The user profile
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176 Path: To determine the user's nmh directory
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180 If problems are encountered with an nmh program, the problems should be
181 reported to the local maintainers of nmh. When doing this, the name of
182 the program should be reported, along with the version information for
183 the program.
184 To find out what version of an nmh program is being run, invoke the
185 program with the -version switch. This information includes the ver‐
186 sion of nmh, the host it was generated on, and the date the program was
187 loaded.
188 Send bug reports and suggestions to nmh-workers@nongnu.org.
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