Subject: What's New in the MH FAQ
Supersedes: <mail/mh-faq/contents_827711986@rtfm.mit.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 1996 18:17:04 GMT
Summary: Summary of recent changes, table of contents and instructions for
. obtaining the MH FAQ.

Version: $Revision: 95.11.1.1 $
Posting-Frequency: biweekly

Folks,

  The last time the FAQ was updated was on or around 27 November 1995.
  
  This article is posted bi-weekly and contains a summary of recent
  changes, the table of contents, and instructions for obtaining the
  FAQ.

27 November 1995

  Rather than place the date in square brackets, questions are now
  dated with "Date" fields.  This will allow newsreaders that can sort
  by date (e.g., in nn, ":sort date") to display the newest items
  first.  In previous items where actual dates could not be
  ascertained, the date of the first release, 1 Mar 91, was used.
  
  Because a single question may have several answers, and each answer
  has its own set of headers (Date and From), and because I didn't
  want to replicate the Subject header, the nn newsreader will have
  many empty subject fields in selection mode.  While this works for
  "sort arrival," other sorts will display the articles out of
  context.  Sorting on date also works because I have a convention of
  placing the most recently modified part first so that it contains
  the Subject field.  Your comments are appreciated.

  References to the MH book have been updated for the 3rd Edition.
  References to the Second Edition remain in parenthesis.

  The HTML version of the FAQ has some bogus links.  If you notice
  that both the ftp or http anchor and the file size are both
  highlighted, then you'll have to remove the file size from the URL
  manually.

  The FAQ has now broken the 100k barrier.  Shall I:

.o leave it alone?
.o break it up into 2 pieces?
.o break it up at section boundaries (e.g., Intro, Building,
.  Composing, etc.)?

...    New Questions
  
2.09 How can I build MH on IRIX?
2.10 How can I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?
2.11 How do I build MH on HPUX?
2.12 Can I prevent adding the local hostname to addresses behind firewalls?
3.08 How can I automatically delete MH backup files?
3.09 Fixing "cannot fopen and lock /var/spool/mail/(user)".
3.10 Can I read my mail with a Web browser?
4.05 Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
4.06 How can I remove duplicate messages?
5.12 How can I send multi-media (MIME) attachments?
5.13 What's the best way to send mail to a long list of people?
5.14 What is the Dcc header?
5.15 How can I make sense of the replcomps file?
5.16 How can I convert quoted-printable to 8bit in quoted text in replies?
Appendix: IRIX config file
Appendix: Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)
Appendix: Removing duplicate messages (Perl)

...  Changed Questions
  
Preface Viewing This Article.Discusses new Date field, and use of MHLIB.
1.05 ...other MH software....thumper.bellcore.com now ftp.bellcore.com.
1.08 ...convert ... to MH?.Added info about unrmail.
2.07 ...build MH on Solaris 2?.Don't link with libucb.so, don't ld -s.
2.08 ...build MH on Linux?.Description of files, disappearing files.
3.02 ...reading Usenet with MH?.Updated mail2news gateways.
5.08 ...change my From header?.Use of Alternate-Mailboxes to fix scan.
5.09 ...copy messages I send?.Getting Message-ID in Fcc folders.
5.11 ...secure/encryped mail?.More info for mailcrypt and pgp.el.
7.01 ...mail filters available?.Updated Raphael Manfredi's mailing address.
8.03 ...POP with mh-e?..Added basic RPOP info.
Glossary...Added description of MHLIB.
  
13 May 1995

  The big news is that Jerry's 3rd edition of O'Reilly's "MH & xmh"
  book is finally out.  This edition has new stuff on MIME, exmh, and
  mh-e.  Note that Jerry has not yet updated the cross-references in
  the FAQ to the new edition.

  The mh-e work in the book also encouraged a new release of mh-e
  (V. 5.0) which now includes a Texinfo manual.  It will be included
  with GNU Emacs 19.29 but can be obtained separately. See "What
  references exist for MH?" in the FAQ for more info.

  Hopefully, the URLs to files and the FAQ Web page are now correct.

  Question numbers now have leading zeros so that they sort correctly
  (when the FAQ is broken up in nn, for example).  

  The archive name did not, in fact, change this time around.

...    New Questions
  
4.4  How can you save News articles into an MH folder?
5.11 Can I post secure/encryped mail?
6.8  Fixing "post: unexpected response; [RPLY] 503 Need MAIL before RCPT"
6.9  Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature
     end-of-file on socket"
6.10 Fixing "Sender didn't use the HELO protocol"
6.11 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 553 Local
     configuration error, hostname not recognized as local
8.3  How do I use POP with mh-e?

...  Changed Questions
  
1.4 ...references.....Fixed mhn-tutorial path, updates above.
1.5 other MH software....New version mh-e.
7.2 ...from can't read mbox....Clarification.
1.8 converting to MH?..New script to convert folders en masse.
2.7 ...build MH on Solaris 2?.Cure for slocal seggie?
2.8 ...build MH on Linux?.Updated paths!
5.4 ...include my signature?.Improved mh-e code somewhat.
5.5 call editor with arguments?.exec editor; use "$@" instead of $*.
6.1 Problems... draft removed.ditto
8.1 ...documentation for mh-e?.Yes!
Glossary...Added TIS, PEM, PGP and SMTP.


13 December 1994

  The archive name has been changed yet again.  It was mh-faq, then
  mh-faq/part1, and now it's mail/mh-faq/part1.  The Keywords header is
  now Son-of-1036 compliant.

  Steps have been made to make it palatable by Thomas Fine's WWW FAQ
  converter (see below for the URL although it might take a few days
  to get there) as well as several denizens of the net.  I've placed
  rows of hyphens before each question and added cross references.  In
  addition, I've moved the author of the answer to the From header and
  moved the question number into the Subject header field.  It's a
  small thing, but I've also moved the pluses (+) and bangs (!) in the
  Table of Contents from the beginning of the line to lie *after* the
  question number so that new and changed questions subjects are
  identical in both the Table of Contents and in the text.  This might
  affect software that was trained to look for new or changed
  questions in the Table of Contents.

  If you encounter any difficulties as a result of these changes,
  please let me know.  You can also let me know if you like these
  changes! ;-)
  
...    New Questions
  
3.7 Why do I get "mhn: don't know how to display content"?
mhn.c patch 2 (deal with unknown content types)

...  Changed Questions
  
1.3 Where can I get MH?..Updated list. Nuked UUCP info. FAQ archive name
2.7 ... build MH on Solaris 2?.Added "unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH".
2.8 ... build MH on Linux?.New patch for libc-4.5.
4.1 . append MH msgs to mbox?.packmbox found in /usr/local/lib/mh
7.1 ... mail filters ...?.Full description of mailagent
8.1 ...docs for mh-e?..We're getting close!


7 November 1994

  The mh-faq archive is now a directory that contains part1--the
  FAQ--and contents--this file.  Files that are available via
  anonymous ftp are now listed as URLs.  Fixed Tom Christiansen's
  address.
  
...    New Questions
  
2.7 How can I build MH on Solaris?   Hooray!
2.8 How can I build MH on Linux?
3.6 Can I get show not to run "less" so much on MIME messages?

...  Changed Questions
  
Preface Viewing This Article.Getting IP address by mail
1.3 Where can I get MH?..New address at Irvine
1.4 What references exist...?.FAQ on Web, new FAQ locations, signature FAQ
1.5 What other MH software...?.Added mhunify
3.2 ...reading Usenet with MH?.Added more ways, mail-to-news gateways, mhunify
3.5 ...show all of MIME msg..?.Way to show ISO 8859-1 character set
5.4 ... include my signature?.Reference Signature FAQ
5.6 ... digestify messages...?.Can use forw -mime
6.4 ...no servers available".Workarounds presented
Appendix Glossary..MIME RFC numbers given
Appendix Copyright..Wording fixed

20 August 1994

  This was a fairly major revamp of the format.  It's not HTMLized
  yet, but the first step was taken: it's now broken up into more
  sections which should make it easier to find the answer to your
  question.

  Another new thing is that I'll be posting this list bi-weekly so
  that new and old readers alike will have a Table of Contents readily
  at hand.

  Hope you like it.

...    New questions

3.5  Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?
4.3  Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?"
5.9  How can I save a copy of all messages I send?
5.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified?
6.6  Fixing "post: unexpected response; [BHST] no socket opened"
6.7  How do I fix the "X-Authentication-Warning" header?
7.1  What mail filters are available?
  
...  Changed questions

1.3  Where can I get MH?..Removed IP addr; MH tbl & UUCP info
1.4  What references exist for MH?.Please use ftp.uu.net, not ora.com
1.5  What MH software is available?.Added exmh; new mh-e
2.5  Does MH support IMAP?..Not directly, but this might help
    
  
...  Table of Contents
  
Subject: Table of Contents
From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:43:36 -0800

Legend: + new, - deleted, ! changed
_______________

01. Introduction

 01.01 Why should I use MH?
 01.02 What is the current version/status of MH?
 01.03 Where can I get MH?
 01.04 What references exist for MH?
 01.05 !What other MH software is available?
 01.06 How can I print a MH manual?
 01.07 How should I report bugs?
 01.08 !How can I convert from my mailer to MH?
_______________

02. Building MH

 02.01 What machines does MH run on?
 02.02 How do I build MH?
 02.03 What options should I use?
 02.04 Where can I get POP3?
 02.05 Does MH support IMAP?
 02.06 Why does "mailgroup mail" only affect inc and not slocal?
 02.07 !How can I build MH on Solaris 2?
 02.08 !How can I build MH on Linux?
 02.09 +How can I build MH on IRIX?
 02.10 +How can I get MH to interpret the Content-Length field?
 02.11 +How do I build MH on HPUX?
 02.12 +Can I prevent adding the local hostname to addresses behind firewalls?
______________________

03. Scanning & Reading

 03.01 What do I do if scan shows the wrong date?
 03.02 How would one go about reading Usenet with MH?
 03.03 How can I search through multiple folders?
 03.04 Why don't MH format commands such as %(friendly) work?
 03.05 Why doesn't "show" display all of a MIME message?
 03.06 Can I get show not to run "less" so much on MIME messages?
 03.07 Why do I get "mhn: don't know how to display content"?
 03.08 +How can I automatically delete MH backup files?
 03.09 +Fixing "cannot fopen and lock /var/spool/mail/(user)".
 03.10 +Can I read my mail with a Web browser?
__________

04. Filing

 04.01 Can I append MH messages to a Unix mailbox format file?
 04.02 Can I append MH messages to a GNU Emacs rmail BABYL-format file?
 04.03 Why do I get ".../.mh_sequences is poorly formatted?"
 04.04 How can you save News articles into an MH folder?
 04.05 +Are there any good tools to archive MH messages?
 04.06 +How can I remove duplicate messages?
________________________

05. Composing & Replying

 05.01 Why does repl add a "Re:" to a message that already has one?
 05.02 How do I include messages in repl with or without ">"?
 05.03 How can I eliminate duplicate copies of letters to myself?
 05.04 How can I include my signature?
 05.05 How do I call my editor with arguments?
 05.06 How can I digestify messages in a folder for mail to another user?
 05.07 How can I change my return address?
 05.08 !How can I change my From header?
 05.09 !How can I save a copy of all messages I send?
 05.10 Can the folder in Fcc: be dynamically specified?
 05.11 !Can I post secure/encryped mail?
 05.12 +How can I send multi-media (MIME) attachments?
 05.13 +What's the best way to send mail to a long list of people?
 05.14 +What is the Dcc header?
 05.15 +How can I make sense of the replcomps file?
 05.16 +How can I convert quoted-printable to 8bit in quoted text in replies?
___________

06. Posting

 06.01 What to do with "Problems with edit - draft removed".
 06.02 Can I run my message through a program (e.g., ispell) before sending?
 06.03 What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part".
 06.04 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available"
 06.05 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 503 Sender
       already specified"
 06.06 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [BHST] no socket opened"
 06.07 How do I fix the "X-Authentication-Warning" header?
 06.08 Fixing "post: unexpected response; [RPLY] 503 Need MAIL
       before RCPT"
 06.09 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature
       end-of-file on socket"
 06.10 Fixing "Sender didn't use the HELO protocol"
 06.11 Fixing "post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 553 Local 
       configuration error, hostname not recognized as local
________________

07. Mail Filters

 07.01 !What mail filters are available?
 07.02 Why slocal writes messages to system mailbox that from(1) can't read.
 07.03 Where can I read about slocal and the format of .maildelivery?
 07.04 How do I debug my .maildelivery file?
 07.05 Why isn't slocal working?
________

08. mh-e

 08.01 Is there documentation for mh-e?
 08.02 How can mail aliases can be expanded in mh-e?
 08.03 !How do I use POP with mh-e?
_______

09. Xmh

 09.01 How can I get xmh to use Emacs as the editor?
 09.02 Does xmh support subfolders?
 09.03 How do I precede included messages with ">" when replying in xmh?
________

Appendix

 Glossary & Acknowledgments
 Switching xmh's editor
 babyl2mh.pl
 inco
 srvrsmtp.c patch
 mhn.c patch 1
 mhn.c patch 2
 +IRIX config file
 +Removing duplicate messages (Bourne)
 +Removing duplicate messages (Perl)

------------------------------
  
...  Obtaining the FAQ
  
via WWW:
  http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mh-faq/part1/faq.html

via anonymous ftp:
  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/mh-faq/part1
  ftp://ftp.uu.net/archive/usenet/news.answers/mail/mh-faq/part1.Z
  ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/mail/mh-faq/part1

via mail:
  Each of the following addresses is following by commands which
  should be included as the body of the message.

  mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
    send /usenet/news.answers/mail/mh-faq/part1

  mail-server@cs.ruu.nl
    send /pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/mail/mh-faq/part1

Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>..Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and 
President, Newt Software..news.software.nn FAQs.
Unix, Motif, networking consulting.Say it with MIME.
