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From: jamesp@metolius.wr.tek.COM (James T Perkins)
Subject: [mh] Re: Screen-oriented MH reader
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Archive-name: mail/readers/vmail/1991-03-07
Original-posting-by: jamesp@metolius.wr.tek.COM (James T Perkins)
Original-subject: Re: Screen-oriented MH reader
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There are a few that I know of, and other mh-users will contribute more.
There's:

	vmh	official MH distribution, curses-based, for reading
		packed (non-MH) mail folders.
	vmail	curses-based, vi-like message browser which calls on
		MH programs to manipulate mail.  Very configurable but
		simple.  This was published on the net some years ago;
		since then I've done bugfixing and enhancements (like
		adding dist, sortm, and a rescan-to-match-mh feature).
	vmailtool - If you have a sun workstation, there is a
		sunview/tooltool-based mouse interface which gives you
		glitzy buttons to run vmail.  I wrote this and it is
		quite popular among my coworkers at various levels of
		mail ignorance/wizardry.
	xmh	X11-based mouse-based mh mail browsing tool.  Pretty
		neat and very configurable, has moderate learning curve,
		but demands an emacs-style mail text editing interface.
		This last one is the only killer for me; when I edit, I
		think in vi command language, otherwise, I'd use xmh
		over vmail/vmailtool.

I'd be happy to distribute my enhanced vmail and vmailtool to anyone who
expresses interest.

James

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