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From: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Why was mail_bsd(1) changed?
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Date: 4 Feb 91 00:29:10 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Dan Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU's message of 3 Feb 91 18:58:36 GMT


Control over mail header presentation:		mh/format files

Sort mail on arrival into folders, into		mh/maildelivery
the spool, or into a vacation program:

Select messages by regexp matches in fields:	mh/pick

Sort mail by date or any other field		mh/sortm

Visual presentation:				mh/xmh (X-based)
						mh/mhe (emacs-based)

mh6.7 is available from many ftp sites, e.g. uunet.uu.net,
gatekeeper.dec.com.  xmh is available from these same sites.
mhe, which I strongly prefer over xmh, comes with GNU emacs.

Caveat: mh stores messages the same way most USENET news systems do,
i.e., each folder is a directory containing numbered files, one
message per file, as opposed to a folder or mbox file containing
multiple messages.  Hence, mh is not compatible with mbox-type folders
a la Sun's mailtool, although conversion utilities are available.

Jim Helman
Department of Applied Physics			Durand 012
Stanford University				FAX: (415) 725-3377
(jim@KAOS.stanford.edu) 			Work: (415) 723-9127