Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!HPLPM.HPL.HP.COM!marvit From: marvit@HPLPM.HPL.HP.COM (Peter Marvit) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Beginner questions Message-ID: <9106211649.AA00515@hplpm.hpl.hp.com> Date: 21 Jun 91 16:49:32 GMT References: <44917@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 39 > I have a couple questions about mh: > > 1) When starting up mh-e using the command: `emacs -f mh-mail', how can I get > it to rescan the folder automatically so that all my mail is shown and not > just the newly incorporated pieces? Here's a version of what I use in my standard .emacs. Note that I rarely leave the Emacs evironment. Modify as you see fit. (progn (load "mh-e" MISSING-NOT-OK NOMESSAGE) (mh-rmail) ; enter mailer.... (mh-rescan-folder (list "all")) ; show old messages as well... > 2) We have an account which is used for receiving and replying to users' > questions. Is it possible (using my account) to read and reply to the > mail from the other account such that the header information (i.e. From:) > is that of the other account and not mine? Any of the *comps* can be modified by hand and used by the standard MH progs. Copy them from /usr/local/lib/mh (or wherever they reside) to ~/Mail, and edit as you wish. replcomps will be the trickiest, but see the man page for mh-format(5) for help. Simply modify your .mh_profile or use command line options to use the modified *comps*. > 3) I would appreciate any (detailed) examples of .maildelivery, *comps, > .mh_profile, etc. from which I could learn. I'll leave that to others, though I seem to remember JLR's stuff in the source distribution somewhere. BTW, maddog, I'll be on UPenn campus next fall if you need personal assistance. -Peter "HP's MH guy" Marvit : Peter Marvit Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA (415) 857-6646 : : Internet: uucp: {any backbone}!hplabs!marvit :