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From: ebersman@uunet.uu.net (Paul Ebersman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Mh-e.el antisocial??
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.153240.23455@uunet.uu.net>
Date: 13 Jun 91 15:32:40 GMT
Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA
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I have been playing a little bit with mh-e.el and it seems rather
unfriendly to configure. While I am not an elisp wizard, I had no
problem getting calendar, vm, gnus and supercite more or less the way I
wanted them. However, I seem to be having lots of problems getting mh-e
to do what I want or expect without spewing files over all my home
directory. Perhaps some mh-e users would be kind enough to point out
where my brain died. (I am using the most recent version of mh-e, the
one that came with emacs 18.57)

1) If I try to start out my mh session by doing mh-visit-folder, it
complains because the mh-temp buffer doesn't already exist. Ugly... I
get around this by doing an mh-list-folders first, but that's a kludge.

2) If mh-e hasn't visited the folder before, it cames it doesn't exist
and asks if I want to create it. The .mh_sequences file is already there
and the folder exists. It shouldn't really object that the folder
doesn't exist.

3) When I do "a" to reply to a message, it complains that $MHHOME/reply
file doesn't exist and then creates a buffer "draft-mhpath: bad message
list drafts". If I do it again, it creates a buffer "draft-draft-..."
and still complains about the reply file. I use a drafts folder, and I
have mh-draft-folder set to "drafts". It does create the reply file and
puts the message in it, but the file contents don't wind up in the
draft-mhpath buffer. Finally, it winds up putting the results of the
edit in $MHHOME/../"mhpath: bad message list drafts" (complete with
spaces in the file name.

4) When you mark things for deletion and then quit without forces the
updates, it doesn't ask if you might want to force the updates.

Thanks for any insights.

-- 
                   Paul A. Ebersman @ UUNET Communications
                   uunet!ebersman or ebersman@uunet.uu.net
       The difference between theory and practice in practice is greater
           than the difference between theory and practice in theory.