MH & xmh: Complete Table of Contents

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FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH THIS BOOK

Home Page for This Book
Road Map (overview with suggested starting points)
What's in This Book (short summary of each chapter)
What's New in the Online Edition
Appendix E: Reference Guide
Indexes
Using This Book (terms for copying, distributing, modifying)
Structure of This Book (organization, files/directories)
Help File for Frames Version
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Examples
List of Example Files
List of Sidebars
List of Sections Useful for xmh Users
List of Sections Useful for mh-e Users
List of Sections Useful for exmh Users
Tables of Contents by Chapter (1, 2, etc.)

Chapter 0: Preface

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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PART I: INTRODUCTION

PART II: USING MH

Chapter 5: Tour Through MH

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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Chapter 6: Reading Your Mail with MH

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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Chapter 7: Sending Mail with MH

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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Chapter 8: Finding and Organizing Mail with MH

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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PART III: CUSTOMIZING MH

Chapter 9: Making MH Work Your Way

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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Chapter 10: New Versions of MH Commands

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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Chapter 11: MH Formatting

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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Chapter 12: Processing New Mail Automatically

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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Chapter 13: Introduction to UNIX Programming with MH

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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PART IV: xmh

Chapter 14: Tour Through xmh

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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Chapter 15: Using xmh

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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Chapter 16: Customizing xmh

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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PART V: mh-e

Chapter 17: Tour Through mh-e

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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Chapter 18: Using mh-e

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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Chapter 19: Customizing mh-e

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 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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PART VI: exmh

Chapter 20: Introducing exmh

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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Chapter 21: Using exmh

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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Chapter 22: Customizing exmh

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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PART VII: APPENDICES

Appendix A: Where Can You Go from Here?

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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Appendix B: History

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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Appendix C: Reference List

C.0 Appendix Introduction
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Appendix D: Example Files and Programs

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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Appendix E: Reference Guide

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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Indexes

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