This is the version of MH-E that is scheduled to be in the next major release of GNU Emacs. You can patiently wait until Emacs is released before being able to use modern MH-E... or you can get a taste of the future today. New features include the ability to Do the Right Thing with mime mail, optional threading, and a more polished feel. (New drawbacks include significant re-assignment of key bindings.) To use MH-E 7.82 for reading and sending mail, add the following commands to your ~/.emacs file: ;; use MH-E version 7.82 (instead of the built-in MH-E, version 5.0.2) (add-to-list 'load-path "/afs/sipb.mit.edu/contrib/emacs/packages/mh-e-7.82")) (require 'mh-e-autoloads) (setq mail-user-agent 'mh-e-user-agent) Start MH-E with: M-x mh-rmail (inc your mail and scan unseen messages in your inbox) M-x mh-nmail (don't inc; scan your entire inbox) C-x m compose-mail Many key bindings have changed in the new version. Some useful bindings to know about are: C-h m describe-mode F r mh-rescan-folder F v mh-visit-folder F s mh-search-folder S l mh-list-sequences S n mh-narrow-to-seq S w mh-widen T t mh-toggle-threads Happy mailing, -Jacob Morzinski