MH & nmh: Complete Table of Contents for Overall Section

FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH THIS BOOK

Home Page for This Book

Road Map (overview with suggested starting points)

What's in This Book (short summary of each chapter)

What's New in the Online Edition

Appendix E: Reference Guide

Using This Book (terms for copying, distributing, modifying)

Structure of This Book (organization, files/directories)

Help File for Frames Version

List of Figures

List of Examples

List of Sidebars

Tables of Contents by Chapter (1, 2, etc.)

Chapter 0: Preface

0.0 Chapter Introduction

0.1 Why Choose MH?

0.2 Why Read This Book?

0.3 What's in This Book

0.4 New in the Third Edition

0.5 What Isn't in This Book

0.6 Conventions Used in This Book

0.7 Request for Comments

0.8 Acknowledgments

0.8.1 Third Print Edition

0.8.2 Online Edition

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PART I: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.0 Chapter Introduction

1.1 What is Email?

1.2 How UNIX Email Works

1.2.1 Email Transfer Agents

1.2.2 Email User Agents

1.3 Introduction to MIME

1.4 Addressing Email

1.5 MH Profile

1.6 What Computers Support MH?

1.7 Obtaining MH, xmh, exmh, and mh-e

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Chapter 2: Key Parts of the UNIX Filesystem

2.0 Chapter Introduction

2.1 UNIX Filesystem Overview

2.2 MH Programs (Binaries) Directory

2.3 Library and Etcetera Directories

2.4 System Mailboxes

2.5 A User's Directories

2.5.1 bin Directory

2.5.2 The MH Directory and Subdirectories

2.6 Special Files for xmh

2.7 Special Files for exmh

2.8 Links

2.8.1 What's a Link?

2.8.2 Technical Stuff About Links

2.9 Caution About MH Files and Newline Characters

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Chapter 3: Introduction to MIME

3.0 Chapter Introduction

Sidebar: ASCII, bits, etc.

3.1 Overview of MIME Messages

3.1.1 Purposes of MIME

3.1.2 MIME Header Fields

3.1.3 MIME Encoding

3.2 Multipart Messages

3.2.1 A Sample Multipart Message

3.2.2 Multipart/alternative Messages

3.2.3 Parts within Parts

3.3 More About MIME

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Chapter 4: Setting Up

4.0 Chapter Introduction

4.1 Getting Mail Ready to Read

4.2 Setting Up MH

4.3 Online Manual Pages

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PART VII: APPENDICES

Appendix B: History

B.0 Appendix Introduction

B.1 History of MH

B.1.1 Overview

B.1.2 From Bruce Borden

B.1.3 From Stockton Gaines

B.1.4 The Original MH Proposal

B.2 History of xmh

B.3 The History of exmh

B.4 Early History of mh-e

B.4.1 From Brian Reid

B.4.2 From Jim Larus

B.4.3 From Stephen Gildea

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Appendix C: Reference List

C.0 Appendix Introduction

Appendix D: Example Files and Programs

D.2 FAQ

D.3 RFCs and Internet Drafts

Appendix E: Reference Guide

E.0 Appendix Introduction

E.5 MIME Reference Guide

E.5.1 Some MIME Content Types and Subtypes

E.5.2 Syntax of mhn Directives

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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.