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<!-- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/mh/article.sgml,v 1.4 1999/09/06 06:52:37 peter Exp $ -->
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<!-- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/mh/article.sgml,v 1.5 1999/10/04 21:45:05 jesusr Exp $ -->
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<!-- FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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<!DOCTYPE ARTICLE PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V3.1-Based Extension//EN">
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@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ for that command.</para>
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installed the MH package on your FreeBSD machine. If you installed
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from CDROM you should be able to execute the following to load mh:
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<informalexample>
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<screen># <userinput>pkg_add /cdrom/packages/mh-6.8.3.tgz</></screen>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add /cdrom/packages/mh-6.8.3.tgz</></screen>
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</informalexample>
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You will notice that it created a <filename>/usr/local/lib/mh</>
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directory for you as well as adding several binaries to the
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@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ time you run <command>inc</> it will setup your account to use all
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the MH defaults and ask you about creating a Mail directory. If you
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have mail waiting to be downloaded you will see something that looks
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like:
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen> 29 01/15 Doug White Re: Another Failed to boot problem<<On Mon, 15 J
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30 01/16 "Jordan K. Hubbar Re: FBSD 2.1<<> Do you want a library instead of
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@ -114,6 +115,7 @@ like:
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32 01/16 "Jordan K. Hubbar Re: video is up<<> Anyway, mrouted won't run, ev
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33 01/16 Michael Smith Re: FBSD 2.1<<Nate Williams stands accused of sa</screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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This is the same thing you will see from a <command>scan</> (see
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<xref linkend="scan">). If you just run <command>inc</> with no
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arguments it will look on your computer for email that is supposed to
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@ -122,9 +124,11 @@ be coming to you.</para>
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<para>A lot of people like to use POP for grabbing their email. MH can do
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POP to grab your email. You will need to give <command>inc</> a few command
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line arguments.
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>inc -host mail.pop.org -user <replaceable>username</> -norpop</></screen>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>inc -host mail.pop.org -user <replaceable>username</> -norpop</></screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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That tells <command>inc</> to go to <parameter>mail.pop.org</> to
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download your email, and that your username on their system is
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<replaceable>username</>. The <option>-norpop</option> option tells
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command. If you just type <userinput>show</> and hit <keycap>return</>
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then it displays the current message. You can also give specific
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message numbers to show:
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>show 32 45 56</></screen>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>show 32 45 56</></screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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This would display message numbers 32, 45 and 56 right after each
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other. Unless you change the default behavior <command>show</>
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basically just does a <command>more</> on the email message.</para>
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<para><command>scan</> will display a brief listing of the messages
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in your current folder. This is an example of what the
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<command>scan</> command will give you.
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen> 30+ 01/16 "Jordan K. Hubbar Re: FBSD 2.1<<> Do you want a library instead of
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31 01/16 Bruce Evans Re: location of bad144 table<<>> >It would appea
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32 01/16 "Jordan K. Hubbar Re: video is up<<> Anyway, mrouted won't run, ev
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33 01/16 Michael Smith Re: FBSD 2.1<<Nate Williams stands accused of sa</screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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Like just about everything in MH this display is very configurable.
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This is the typical default display. It gives you the message number,
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the date on the email, the sender, the subject line, and a sentence
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@ -214,19 +222,22 @@ drive so you should be careful when you use this command.</para>
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<para>The first thing that you will want to do is <command>inc</>
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your new mail. So at a shell prompt just type in <command>inc</> and
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hit <keycap>return</>.
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>inc</>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>inc</>
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Incorporating new mail into inbox...
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36+ 01/19 "Stephen L. Lange Request...<<Please remove me as contact for pind
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37 01/19 Matt Thomas Re: kern/950: Two PCI bridge chips fail (multipl
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38 01/19 "Amancio Hasty Jr Re: FreeBSD and VAT<<>>> Bill Fenner said: > In
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tempest%</screen>
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&prompt.user;</screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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This shows you the new email that has been added to your mailbox. So
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the next thing to do is <command>show</> the email and move around.
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>show</>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>show</>
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Received: by sashimi.wwa.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #2)
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id m0tdMZ2-001W2UC; Fri, 19 Jan 96 13:33 CST
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:33:31 -0600 (CST)
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Please remove me as contact for pindat.com
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tempest% <userinput>rmm</>
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tempest% <userinput>next</>
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&prompt.user; <userinput>rmm</>
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&prompt.user; <userinput>next</>
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Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whydos.lkg.dec.com (8.6.11/8
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.6.9) with SMTP id RAA24416; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:56:48 GMT
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Message-Id: <199601191756.RAA24416@whydos.lkg.dec.com>
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This is due to a typo in pcireg.h (to
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which I am probably the guilty party).</screen>
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</informalexample></para>
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</informalexample>
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<para>The <command>rmm</> removed the current message and the
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<command>next</> command moved me on to the next message.
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Now if I wanted to look at ten most recent messages so I could read
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one of them here is what I would do:
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>scan last:10</>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>scan last:10</>
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26 01/16 maddy Re: Testing some stuff<<yeah, well, Trinity has
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27 01/17 Automatic digest NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 16 Jan 1996 to 17 Jan 19
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28 01/17 Evans A Criswell Re: Hey dude<<>From matt@tempest.garply.com Tue
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35 01/19 support@foo.garpl [garply.com #1138] parlor<<Hello. This is the Ne
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37+ 01/19 Matt Thomas Re: kern/950: Two PCI bridge chips fail (multipl
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38 01/19 "Amancio Hasty Jr Re: FreeBSD and VAT<<>>> Bill Fenner said: > In
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tempest%</screen>
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&prompt.user;</screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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Then if I wanted to read message number 27 I would do a
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<userinput>show 27</> and it would be displayed. As you can probably
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tell from this sample session MH is pretty easy to use and looking
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pick</><manvolnum>1</></> man page for a
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more thorough understanding. At its simplest level you can do
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something like
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>pick -search pci</>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pick -search pci</>
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15
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42
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55
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57</screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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This will tell <command>pick</> to look through every single line in
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every message in your current folder and tell you which message
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numbers it found the word <literal>pci</> in. You can then
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<command>rmm</> them. You would have to specify something like
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<command>show 15 42 55-57</> to display them though. A slightly more
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useful thing to do is this:
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>pick -search pci -seq pick</>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pick -search pci -seq pick</>
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5 hits
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tempest% <userinput>show pick</></screen>
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&prompt.user; <userinput>show pick</></screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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This will show you the same messages you just didn't have to work as
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hard to do it. The <option>-seq</option> option is really an
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abbreviation of <option>-sequence</option> and <command>pick</> is
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consuming than just searching for message from someone, or to
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someone. So <command>pick</> allows you to use the following
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predefined search criteria:
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist></para>
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</variablelist>
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<para>This allows you to do things like
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>pick -to freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org -seq hackers</></screen>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pick -to freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org -seq hackers</></screen>
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</informalexample>
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to get a list of all the email send to the FreeBSD hackers mailing
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list. <command>pick</> also allows you to group these criteria in
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different ways using the following options:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>
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These commands allow you to do things like
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>pick -to freebsd-hackers -and -cc freebsd-hackers</></screen>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pick -to freebsd-hackers -and -cc freebsd-hackers</></screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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That will grab all the email in your inbox that was sent to
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freebsd-hackers or cc'd to that list. The brace options allow you to
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group search criteria together. This is sometimes very necessary as
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in the following example
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>pick -lbrace -to freebsd-hackers -and
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pick -lbrace -to freebsd-hackers -and
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-not -cc freebsd-questions -rbrace -and -subject pci</></screen>
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</informalexample></para>
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</informalexample>
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<para>Basically this says <quote>pick (to freebsd-hackers and not cc'd on
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freebsd-questions) and the subject is pci</quote>. It should look through your
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folders is the same one you get when you change to a folder with
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<command>folder +foldername</>. A <command>folders</> command looks
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like this:
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen> Folder # of messages ( range ); cur msg (other files)
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announce has 1 message ( 1- 1).
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TOTAL= 199 messages in 13 folders.
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</screen>
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</informalexample></para>
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</informalexample>
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<para>The <command>refile</> command is what you use to move messages
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between folders. When you do something like <command>refile 23
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-editor /usr/local/bin/pico/</> instead. Once you have run
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<emphasis>comp</emphasis> you are in your editor and you see
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something that looks like this:
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>To:
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cc:
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Subject:
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--------
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</screen>
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</informalexample></para>
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</informalexample>
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<para>You need to put the person you are sending the mail to after the
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<literal>To:</> line. It works the same way for the other headers
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lot of email programs have special requesters that ask you for this
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information but there really isn't any point to that. Plus this
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really gives you excellent flexibility.
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>To:<userinput>freebsd-rave@FreeBSD.org</>
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cc:
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--------
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<userinput>Wow this is an amazing operating system. Thanks!</></screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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You can now save this message and exit your editor. You will see the
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<prompt>What now?</> prompt and you can type in
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<userinput>send</> or <userinput>s</> and hit
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<filename>components</> file and then edits it. You can add any
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kind of valid RFC822 header you want. For instance you could have
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something like this in your <filename>components</> file:
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>To:
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Fcc: out
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-------</screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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MH would then copy this components file and throw you into your
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editor. The <filename>components</> file is fairly simple. If you
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wanted to have a signature on those messages you would just put your
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<para>The <filename>replcomps</> file is a bit more complex. The default
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<filename>replcomps</> looks like this:
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>%(lit)%(formataddr %<{reply-to}%?{from}%?{sender}%?{return-path}%>)\
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%<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr To: )\n%>\
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%{message-id}%>\n%>\
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--------
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</screen>
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</informalexample></para>
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</informalexample>
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<para>It's in the same basic format as the <filename>components</> file but
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it contains quite a few extra formatting codes. The
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address. The next part is <literal>%<</literal> which means if and
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the <literal>{reply-to}</> means the reply-to field in the original
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message. So that might be translated this way:
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>%<<emphasis remap=bf>if</emphasis> {reply-to} <emphasis remap=bf>the original message has a reply-to</emphasis>
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then give that to formataddr, %? <emphasis remap=bf>else</emphasis> {from} <emphasis remap=bf>take the
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from address</emphasis>, %? <emphasis remap=bf>else</emphasis> {sender} <emphasis remap=bf>take the sender address</emphasis>, %?
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<emphasis remap=bf>else</emphasis> {return-path} <emphasis remap=bf>take the return-path from the original
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message</emphasis>, %> <emphasis remap=bf>endif</emphasis>.</screen>
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</informalexample></para>
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</informalexample>
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<para>As you can tell MH formatting can get rather involved. You can
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probably decipher what most of the other functions and variables
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<!-- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/mh/article.sgml,v 1.4 1999/09/06 06:52:37 peter Exp $ -->
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<!-- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/mh/article.sgml,v 1.5 1999/10/04 21:45:05 jesusr Exp $ -->
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<!-- FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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<!DOCTYPE ARTICLE PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V3.1-Based Extension//EN">
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installed the MH package on your FreeBSD machine. If you installed
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from CDROM you should be able to execute the following to load mh:
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<informalexample>
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<screen># <userinput>pkg_add /cdrom/packages/mh-6.8.3.tgz</></screen>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add /cdrom/packages/mh-6.8.3.tgz</></screen>
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</informalexample>
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You will notice that it created a <filename>/usr/local/lib/mh</>
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directory for you as well as adding several binaries to the
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the MH defaults and ask you about creating a Mail directory. If you
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have mail waiting to be downloaded you will see something that looks
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like:
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen> 29 01/15 Doug White Re: Another Failed to boot problem<<On Mon, 15 J
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30 01/16 "Jordan K. Hubbar Re: FBSD 2.1<<> Do you want a library instead of
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32 01/16 "Jordan K. Hubbar Re: video is up<<> Anyway, mrouted won't run, ev
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33 01/16 Michael Smith Re: FBSD 2.1<<Nate Williams stands accused of sa</screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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This is the same thing you will see from a <command>scan</> (see
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<xref linkend="scan">). If you just run <command>inc</> with no
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arguments it will look on your computer for email that is supposed to
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@ -122,9 +124,11 @@ be coming to you.</para>
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<para>A lot of people like to use POP for grabbing their email. MH can do
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POP to grab your email. You will need to give <command>inc</> a few command
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line arguments.
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>inc -host mail.pop.org -user <replaceable>username</> -norpop</></screen>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>inc -host mail.pop.org -user <replaceable>username</> -norpop</></screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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That tells <command>inc</> to go to <parameter>mail.pop.org</> to
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download your email, and that your username on their system is
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<replaceable>username</>. The <option>-norpop</option> option tells
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@ -149,9 +153,11 @@ Like <command>inc</>, <command>show</> is a fairly straightforward
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command. If you just type <userinput>show</> and hit <keycap>return</>
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then it displays the current message. You can also give specific
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message numbers to show:
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>show 32 45 56</></screen>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>show 32 45 56</></screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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This would display message numbers 32, 45 and 56 right after each
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other. Unless you change the default behavior <command>show</>
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basically just does a <command>more</> on the email message.</para>
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@ -169,12 +175,14 @@ message it automatically displays it.</para>
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<para><command>scan</> will display a brief listing of the messages
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in your current folder. This is an example of what the
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<command>scan</> command will give you.
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen> 30+ 01/16 "Jordan K. Hubbar Re: FBSD 2.1<<> Do you want a library instead of
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31 01/16 Bruce Evans Re: location of bad144 table<<>> >It would appea
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32 01/16 "Jordan K. Hubbar Re: video is up<<> Anyway, mrouted won't run, ev
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33 01/16 Michael Smith Re: FBSD 2.1<<Nate Williams stands accused of sa</screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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Like just about everything in MH this display is very configurable.
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This is the typical default display. It gives you the message number,
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the date on the email, the sender, the subject line, and a sentence
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@ -214,19 +222,22 @@ drive so you should be careful when you use this command.</para>
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<para>The first thing that you will want to do is <command>inc</>
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your new mail. So at a shell prompt just type in <command>inc</> and
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hit <keycap>return</>.
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>inc</>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>inc</>
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Incorporating new mail into inbox...
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36+ 01/19 "Stephen L. Lange Request...<<Please remove me as contact for pind
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37 01/19 Matt Thomas Re: kern/950: Two PCI bridge chips fail (multipl
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38 01/19 "Amancio Hasty Jr Re: FreeBSD and VAT<<>>> Bill Fenner said: > In
|
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tempest%</screen>
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&prompt.user;</screen>
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</informalexample>
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<para>
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This shows you the new email that has been added to your mailbox. So
|
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the next thing to do is <command>show</> the email and move around.
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</para>
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<informalexample>
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<screen>tempest% <userinput>show</>
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>show</>
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Received: by sashimi.wwa.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #2)
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id m0tdMZ2-001W2UC; Fri, 19 Jan 96 13:33 CST
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:33:31 -0600 (CST)
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|
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@ -240,8 +251,8 @@ Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
|
|||
|
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Please remove me as contact for pindat.com
|
||||
|
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tempest% <userinput>rmm</>
|
||||
tempest% <userinput>next</>
|
||||
&prompt.user; <userinput>rmm</>
|
||||
&prompt.user; <userinput>next</>
|
||||
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whydos.lkg.dec.com (8.6.11/8
|
||||
.6.9) with SMTP id RAA24416; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:56:48 GMT
|
||||
Message-Id: <199601191756.RAA24416@whydos.lkg.dec.com>
|
||||
|
|
@ -262,14 +273,15 @@ Precedence: bulk
|
|||
|
||||
This is due to a typo in pcireg.h (to
|
||||
which I am probably the guilty party).</screen>
|
||||
</informalexample></para>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The <command>rmm</> removed the current message and the
|
||||
<command>next</> command moved me on to the next message.
|
||||
Now if I wanted to look at ten most recent messages so I could read
|
||||
one of them here is what I would do:
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen>tempest% <userinput>scan last:10</>
|
||||
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>scan last:10</>
|
||||
26 01/16 maddy Re: Testing some stuff<<yeah, well, Trinity has
|
||||
27 01/17 Automatic digest NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 16 Jan 1996 to 17 Jan 19
|
||||
28 01/17 Evans A Criswell Re: Hey dude<<>From matt@tempest.garply.com Tue
|
||||
|
|
@ -280,8 +292,9 @@ one of them here is what I would do:
|
|||
35 01/19 support@foo.garpl [garply.com #1138] parlor<<Hello. This is the Ne
|
||||
37+ 01/19 Matt Thomas Re: kern/950: Two PCI bridge chips fail (multipl
|
||||
38 01/19 "Amancio Hasty Jr Re: FreeBSD and VAT<<>>> Bill Fenner said: > In
|
||||
tempest%</screen>
|
||||
&prompt.user;</screen>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Then if I wanted to read message number 27 I would do a
|
||||
<userinput>show 27</> and it would be displayed. As you can probably
|
||||
tell from this sample session MH is pretty easy to use and looking
|
||||
|
|
@ -343,8 +356,9 @@ system. So you might want to read the
|
|||
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pick</><manvolnum>1</></> man page for a
|
||||
more thorough understanding. At its simplest level you can do
|
||||
something like
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen>tempest% <userinput>pick -search pci</>
|
||||
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pick -search pci</>
|
||||
15
|
||||
42
|
||||
55
|
||||
|
|
@ -352,6 +366,7 @@ something like
|
|||
57</screen>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This will tell <command>pick</> to look through every single line in
|
||||
every message in your current folder and tell you which message
|
||||
numbers it found the word <literal>pci</> in. You can then
|
||||
|
|
@ -359,11 +374,13 @@ numbers it found the word <literal>pci</> in. You can then
|
|||
<command>rmm</> them. You would have to specify something like
|
||||
<command>show 15 42 55-57</> to display them though. A slightly more
|
||||
useful thing to do is this:
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen>tempest% <userinput>pick -search pci -seq pick</>
|
||||
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pick -search pci -seq pick</>
|
||||
5 hits
|
||||
tempest% <userinput>show pick</></screen>
|
||||
&prompt.user; <userinput>show pick</></screen>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This will show you the same messages you just didn't have to work as
|
||||
hard to do it. The <option>-seq</option> option is really an
|
||||
abbreviation of <option>-sequence</option> and <command>pick</> is
|
||||
|
|
@ -377,6 +394,7 @@ will overwrite the old sequence if you use the same name.</para>
|
|||
consuming than just searching for message from someone, or to
|
||||
someone. So <command>pick</> allows you to use the following
|
||||
predefined search criteria:
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<variablelist>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -424,15 +442,16 @@ the header)</para>
|
|||
</listitem>
|
||||
</varlistentry>
|
||||
|
||||
</variablelist></para>
|
||||
</variablelist>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>This allows you to do things like
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen>tempest% <userinput>pick -to freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org -seq hackers</></screen>
|
||||
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pick -to freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org -seq hackers</></screen>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
to get a list of all the email send to the FreeBSD hackers mailing
|
||||
list. <command>pick</> also allows you to group these criteria in
|
||||
different ways using the following options:
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<itemizedlist>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
|
|
@ -452,18 +471,22 @@ different ways using the following options:
|
|||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
</itemizedlist>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
These commands allow you to do things like
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen>tempest% <userinput>pick -to freebsd-hackers -and -cc freebsd-hackers</></screen>
|
||||
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pick -to freebsd-hackers -and -cc freebsd-hackers</></screen>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
That will grab all the email in your inbox that was sent to
|
||||
freebsd-hackers or cc'd to that list. The brace options allow you to
|
||||
group search criteria together. This is sometimes very necessary as
|
||||
in the following example
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen>tempest% <userinput>pick -lbrace -to freebsd-hackers -and
|
||||
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pick -lbrace -to freebsd-hackers -and
|
||||
-not -cc freebsd-questions -rbrace -and -subject pci</></screen>
|
||||
</informalexample></para>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>Basically this says <quote>pick (to freebsd-hackers and not cc'd on
|
||||
freebsd-questions) and the subject is pci</quote>. It should look through your
|
||||
|
|
@ -506,6 +529,7 @@ is in each one and so on. This line of stats it displays for all your
|
|||
folders is the same one you get when you change to a folder with
|
||||
<command>folder +foldername</>. A <command>folders</> command looks
|
||||
like this:
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen> Folder # of messages ( range ); cur msg (other files)
|
||||
announce has 1 message ( 1- 1).
|
||||
|
|
@ -521,7 +545,7 @@ like this:
|
|||
|
||||
TOTAL= 199 messages in 13 folders.
|
||||
</screen>
|
||||
</informalexample></para>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The <command>refile</> command is what you use to move messages
|
||||
between folders. When you do something like <command>refile 23
|
||||
|
|
@ -573,13 +597,14 @@ want to use <command>comp -editor /usr/bin/vi/</> or <command>comp
|
|||
-editor /usr/local/bin/pico/</> instead. Once you have run
|
||||
<emphasis>comp</emphasis> you are in your editor and you see
|
||||
something that looks like this:
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen>To:
|
||||
cc:
|
||||
Subject:
|
||||
--------
|
||||
</screen>
|
||||
</informalexample></para>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>You need to put the person you are sending the mail to after the
|
||||
<literal>To:</> line. It works the same way for the other headers
|
||||
|
|
@ -589,6 +614,7 @@ message after the dashed lines. It may seem a bit simplistic since a
|
|||
lot of email programs have special requesters that ask you for this
|
||||
information but there really isn't any point to that. Plus this
|
||||
really gives you excellent flexibility.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen>To:<userinput>freebsd-rave@FreeBSD.org</>
|
||||
cc:
|
||||
|
|
@ -596,6 +622,7 @@ Subject:<userinput>And on the 8th day God created the FreeBSD core team</>
|
|||
--------
|
||||
<userinput>Wow this is an amazing operating system. Thanks!</></screen>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
You can now save this message and exit your editor. You will see the
|
||||
<prompt>What now?</> prompt and you can type in
|
||||
<userinput>send</> or <userinput>s</> and hit
|
||||
|
|
@ -644,6 +671,7 @@ the top, a dashed line and then nothing. The
|
|||
<filename>components</> file and then edits it. You can add any
|
||||
kind of valid RFC822 header you want. For instance you could have
|
||||
something like this in your <filename>components</> file:
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen>To:
|
||||
Fcc: out
|
||||
|
|
@ -653,6 +681,7 @@ X-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/
|
|||
-------</screen>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
MH would then copy this components file and throw you into your
|
||||
editor. The <filename>components</> file is fairly simple. If you
|
||||
wanted to have a signature on those messages you would just put your
|
||||
|
|
@ -660,6 +689,7 @@ signature in that <filename>components</> file.</para>
|
|||
|
||||
<para>The <filename>replcomps</> file is a bit more complex. The default
|
||||
<filename>replcomps</> looks like this:
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen>%(lit)%(formataddr %<{reply-to}%?{from}%?{sender}%?{return-path}%>)\
|
||||
%<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr To: )\n%>\
|
||||
|
|
@ -672,7 +702,7 @@ signature in that <filename>components</> file.</para>
|
|||
%{message-id}%>\n%>\
|
||||
--------
|
||||
</screen>
|
||||
</informalexample></para>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>It's in the same basic format as the <filename>components</> file but
|
||||
it contains quite a few extra formatting codes. The
|
||||
|
|
@ -681,13 +711,14 @@ it contains quite a few extra formatting codes. The
|
|||
address. The next part is <literal>%<</literal> which means if and
|
||||
the <literal>{reply-to}</> means the reply-to field in the original
|
||||
message. So that might be translated this way:
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
<informalexample>
|
||||
<screen>%<<emphasis remap=bf>if</emphasis> {reply-to} <emphasis remap=bf>the original message has a reply-to</emphasis>
|
||||
then give that to formataddr, %? <emphasis remap=bf>else</emphasis> {from} <emphasis remap=bf>take the
|
||||
from address</emphasis>, %? <emphasis remap=bf>else</emphasis> {sender} <emphasis remap=bf>take the sender address</emphasis>, %?
|
||||
<emphasis remap=bf>else</emphasis> {return-path} <emphasis remap=bf>take the return-path from the original
|
||||
message</emphasis>, %> <emphasis remap=bf>endif</emphasis>.</screen>
|
||||
</informalexample></para>
|
||||
</informalexample>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>As you can tell MH formatting can get rather involved. You can
|
||||
probably decipher what most of the other functions and variables
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
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