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From: jromine@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Is mh easy to build and use?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 17:06:23 GMT
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QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Alan Thew) writes:
>I am looking at ... MH.  try ... some 'hard sell' on me.

Hmm.  I'd say if you haven't outgrown a simpler mail user agent like
"mail", stay with it.  After all, your goal is to read your mail, not
become an MH wizard.

If you anticiplate handling a few hundred messages every day, you may
want to use MH.  Right now, the best sales pitch I know of is to get a
copy of Jerry Peek's excellent "MH & xmh" book.  It's 500 pages, and
still doesn't describe everything you can do with MH.

Most of the size of the MH distribution is documentation, contributed
software and MTA interfaces.  The main code (in the uip & sbr
directories) adds up to about 1.5Mb.  Since MH runs on a large number
of systems, and has a lot of configuration choices, there are a lot of
compile-time options.  You can probably just pick a standard example
configuration and go with that.
--
John Romine