The MH Message Handling System is a set of electronic mail programs in the public domain. If your computer runs UNIX, it can probably run MH -- and it's more likely to be able to run nmh, a new and free version that generally builds more easily and has more bugs fixed. MH is free, powerful, flexible -- and the basics are easy to learn. nmh works like MH; in most places, you won't notice any difference -- and, where there are differences, we'll tell you.
This book starts with an introduction to electronic mail; if you've never used email, that's a good place to start. If you'll be using MIME multimedia email, read the introductory MIME chapter. Next is an overview and tour of MH 6.8.4 and nmh-1.0. You can start sending and reading mail with MH right away, by following the examples and step by step instructions in the tour. In just a few pages, you'll have the flavor of the system and a hint of the advanced features. After the tour, a series of chapters give detailed information about using and customizing MH.
This book also covers three popular interfaces, or front ends, to MH. There's a step-by-step tour for each interface that will have you sending and reading mail within a few pages.
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This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This file is freely available; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see the file copying.htm.
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