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From: mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Xmh not updating .mh_profile???
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.163114.3552@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 16:31:14 GMT
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To my constant annoyance, Xmh doesn't seem to keep .mh_profile
(or "Mail/<folder>/context" or whatever)
current with the state inside Xmh, even after a "commit".
This means that several shell-scripts which I use to do things
like playback voicemail announced by email don't work.
Anyone have any hacks to make Xmh a bit more observant of
the MH protocol??

One of the greatest virtues of MH is that it is NOT a monolithic
program so you can build shell scripts which do useful things
with mail, and while I really like Xmh for many things,
returning to the closed, inaccesible monolithic mail environment
is unacceptable.

Sigh.

	-Mike