Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ENG.UMD.EDU!ziegast From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: FAQ and convertion from unix-mail to mh Message-ID: <9011150438.AA01694@bacchus.eng.umd.edu> Date: 15 Nov 90 04:38:25 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 42 Francois Felix INGRAND writes: > >I have just installed MH but I have not tried it yet. Before I do anything >foolish, I was wondering how difficult it is to convert my 50 unix-mail folder s >to MH format... and how difficult it would be to convert them back (in case I >decide MH is not for me). The command inc(1) will INCorperate your unix-mail in MH folders. If you want, you can even specify different names for each folder: inc +mh-folder1 -file unixmail-folder-1 inc +mh-folder2 -file unixmail-folder-2 I'm not sure what the default for inc is, but to be safe, if you want to keep your unixmail folders to not be deleted when inc reads it, add the option "-notruncate" on the end. If you feel uncomfortable with using MH, try looking at some of the tutorial documents in your mh-6.7/papers directory. As for MH --> unix-mail, there is no standard way to convert them back. But, a few times people responded with some awk scripts that'll convert the messages back to BSD Mail format. I looked through some old print- outs of this newsgroup and couldn't find them. Could someone repost the solution? While you could always mail yourself the message again to recieve it into a unixmail spool folder, I don't see why people really need to convert messages back to unixmail format. I find that once people start using MH, they don't switch back to Mail. (Anyone disagree?) >Is there a list of FAQ about MH somewhere I could consult? Something like this might be worthy of including with the MH distribution in the miscellany directory. Then again, maybe not. This group has been pretty good at answering questions. ________________________________________________________________________ Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@[301.405.3689]