Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!tower From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: MH (was X.400 ean mail system) Message-ID: <12788@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 13:50:27 EDT Article-I.D.: bu-cs.12788 Posted: Thu Sep 10 13:50:27 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 09:14:25 EDT References: <8708270054.AA02979@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> <1700@fmsrl7.UUCP> Reply-To: tower@bu-cs.bu.edu Organization: Distributed Systems Group, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA +1 (617) 353-2780 Lines: 90 Summary: Another mail front end (i.e. User interface) Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 In article <1700@fmsrl7.UUCP> wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP (Michael R. Wayne) writes: > In article <8708270054.AA02979@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> > lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes: > > >In fact, there is no real reason either why you can't have the best of all > >worlds. This message is composed in a MH mode in GNU-emacs (with roughly > >the same features as mailtool), > >will be processed by the standard Unix sendmail, > ^^^^^^^ > Right. "Standard" if you have BSD. What about all the poor suckers out > there that have System V (like me)? We end up with a broken mailer that > taunts us with wonderful promises but fails to deliver (pun intended). > Why can't Rand/UCI/someone make MH run without depending on sendmail (on > top of smail, for example)? Trying to run on a SysV box without sendmail > is pure hell. If anything else came close, I would switch immediately > but I'm spoiled by the parts that do work. GNU Emacs has another mail front end: rmail-mode. The *Help* buffer for the mode is appended. rmail-mode is in the babyl family of mailers. It has many user settable variables, understand's /usr/ucb/Mail's ~/.mailrc aliases and it's very customizable (as it's almost entirely coded in GNU Emacs Lisp, and you get full source code). Its can be installed to work on both BSD and SysV systems, and could easily be made to work with other mail delivery and/or operating systems {assuming GNU Emacs is ported already ;-}. To get info on how to obtain GNU Emacs and the GNU Project ask: enjoy -len ====================================================================== RMAIL Mode: Rmail Mode is used by M-x rmail for editing Rmail files. All normal editing commands are turned off. Instead, these commands are available: . Move point to front of this message (same as ESC <). SPC Scroll to next screen of this message. DEL Scroll to previous screen of this message. n Move to Next non-deleted message. p Move to Previous non-deleted message. M-n Move to Next message whether deleted or not. M-p Move to Previous message whether deleted or not. > Move to the last message in Rmail file. j Jump to message specified by numeric position in file. M-s Search for string and show message it is found in. d Delete this message, move to next nondeleted. C-d Delete this message, move to previous nondeleted. u Undelete message. Tries current message, then earlier messages till a deleted message is found. e Expunge deleted messages. s Expunge and save the file. q Quit Rmail: expunge, save, then switch to another buffer. C-x C-s Save without expunging. g Move new mail from system spool directory or mbox into this file. m Mail a message (same as C-x 4 m). c Continue composing outgoing message started before. r Reply to this message. Like m but initializes some fields. f Forward this message to another user. o Output this message to an Rmail file (append it). C-o Output this message to a Unix-format mail file (append it). i Input Rmail file. Run Rmail on that file. a Add label to message. It will be displayed in the mode line. k Kill label. Remove a label from current message. C-M-n Move to Next message with specified label (label defaults to last one specified). Standard labels: filed, unseen, answered, forwarded, deleted. Any other label is present only if you add it with `a'. C-M-p Move to Previous message with specified label C-M-h Show headers buffer, with a one line summary of each message. C-M-l Like h only just messages with particular label(s) are summarized. C-M-r Like h only just messages with particular recipient(s) are summarized. t Toggle header, show Rmail header if unformatted or vice versa. w Edit the current message. C-c C-c to return to Rmail. ====================================================================== Mail Mode: Major mode for editing mail to be sent. Like Text Mode but with these additional commands: C-c C-s mail-send (send the message) C-c C-c mail-send-and-exit C-c C-f move to a header field (and create it if there isn't): C-c C-f C-t move to To: C-c C-f C-s move to Subj: C-c C-f C-b move to BCC: C-c C-f C-c move to CC: C-c C-w mail-signature (insert ~/.signature at end). C-c C-y mail-yank-original (insert current message, in Rmail). C-c C-q mail-fill-yanked-message (fill what was yanked). -- Len Tower, Distributed Systems Group, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA +1 (617) 353-2780 Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 UUCP: {}!harvard!bu-cs!tower INTERNET: tower@bu-cs.bu.edu