Top Document: MH Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with Answers Previous Document: 01.00 ***** Introduction ***** Next Document: !01.02 What is the current version/status of MH. See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:03:15 -0800 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. The big difference between MH and most other "mail user agents" is that you can use MH from a Unix shell prompt. In MH, each command is a separate program, and the shell is used as an interpreter. So, all the power of Unix shells (pipes, redirection, history, aliases, and so on) works with MH--you don't have to learn a new interface. Other mail agents have their own command interpreter for their individual mail commands (although the mush mail agent simulates a Unix shell). Because MH commands aren't part of a monolithic mail system, you can use them at any time; you don't have to start or quit the mail agent. Because you use them from a shell prompt, you can use all the power of the shell. If your shell has time-saving aliases or functions (and most do), you'll be able to use them with MH, of course. And because MH isn't a monolithic mail agent, you can use MH commands in Unix shell scripts, or call them from programs in high-level languages like C. Unlike most mail agents, MH keeps each message in a separate file. The filename is the message number. To rearrange the messages, MH just changes the filenames. MH can use standard Unix file system operations such as removing, copying and linking messages. The message files are grouped into one or more folders, which are actually Unix directories. MH is free, powerful, flexible--and the basics are easy to learn. User Contributions:Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: MH Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with Answers Previous Document: 01.00 ***** Introduction ***** Next Document: !01.02 What is the current version/status of MH. Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
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