EXMH TOUR(1)                     INTRO TO EXMH                    EXMH TOUR(1)



NAME
       exmh - An introduction to the exmh mail user interface.

INTRODUCTION
       This man page provides a quick tour through some of the basic features
       of exmh version 2.0, which provides a graphical user interface to the
       MH mail system.

       After you read this tutorial you should be able to use exmh for your
       basic daily mail reading needs.  You will learn how to send mail, read
       mail, manage your messages in folders, and adjust some of the exmh
       features by means of its Preferences user interface.

       There is much more documentation available on-line through HTML pages
       that are viewable from within exmh.  In particular.  exmh-use provides
       information about using the more advanced features of exmh.  If you are
       already an experienced email user, you may want to just read the
       GETTING STARTED section here and then skip to the exmh-use man page.
       exmh-custom describes how to customize exmh to suit your needs.  exmh-
       ref lists each button and menu entry in exmh and explains what they do.
       If you are an experienced exmh user, this may be the most useful man
       page for you.

       A cleaned up version of these man pages appear in the 3rd edition of
       the book by Jerry Peek, MH & xmh: email for users and programmers,
       which is published by O'Reilly & Associates.

       Web versions of the documentation can also be found at

       http://www.beedub.com/exmh/

GETTING STARTED
       If you are already an MH or xmh user, you can start with the examples
       given in this tour.  If you are a new user, exmh will set up your basic
       MH environment.  This includes a Mail directory which will have one
       subdirectory for each mail folder, plus several files that MH mail uses
       for its own purposes.  You also get a ~/.mh_profile file that has user
       settings for MH and exmh.

       Exmh uses the regular MH programs to manipulate your mail folders and
       messages.  This means it is compatible with command-line use of MH
       programs, and its actions should be familar if you are an experienced
       MH user.  If you are a new MH user, then the details of running MH
       programs is hidden behind the graphical interface.  The MH programs
       used by exmh are described towards the end of this man page.

       When you run exmh for the first time it checks a few things in your MH
       profile.  In particular, it depends on the Draft-Folder and Unseen-
       Sequence profile components.  If these profile components are not
       present, a dialog appears and exmh can set them up for you.  If you do
       not let exmh create them nor set them up by hand, exmh will not work
       properly.  These profile entries are described in the exmh-ref man
       page.

       Exmh has been designed to be very flexible, although it will work just
       fine "out of the box".  The Preference package used to adjust some of
       the settings in exmh is introduced in this man page, and some of the
       important settings are described here.  A more complete guide to
       customizing exmh is given in the exmh-custom man page.

RUNNING EXMH
       The command to start exmh looks like this: exmh -display hostname:0 &
       If your DISPLAY environment variable is set up properly, then the
       -display argument is not needed, and the command is even simpler.  You
       do not need to specify a -geometry argument, although exmh supports
       one.  Instead, simply position and size the window using your window
       manager.  When exmh quits, it saves the geometry information so you
       don't have to worry about it.  It does this with all its top level
       windows, so you can adjust their position once and then forget about
       it.  There are more command line options described in the exmh-ref man
       page.

       You can add the exmh command to your startup X environment by editting
       your startup file (like .xsession).  You might also want to add it to
       the main menu of your window manager.  The details about this vary from
       X system to X system, so ask your local X guru for help.  Exmh also
       supports the window manager session protocol, which means that session-
       smart window managers will automatically start exmh for you if you quit
       X when exmh is running.

THE EXMH DISPLAY
       This section describes the main parts of the exmh display.  It probably
       makes sense to run exmh at this point so you can follow along.  There
       are three sets of buttons in the interface, and three main subwindows.

       Main Buttons.  Along the top of the window is a set of buttons and
       menus that apply to exmh itself.  Quit, for example, quits exmh.  The
       Help button pops up a menu, and you can select the entries there to get
       more on-line information about exmh.  Use the left mouse button to
       select the buttons and menus.  A button will change its appearence when
       you press it, and it will be invoked when you release the mouse over
       the button.  If you slide the mouse off the button before releasing it,
       nothing happens.

       Folder Display.  Below the main buttons is the folder display
       subwindow.  It has a special button for each of your top-level folders,
       and these are called folder labels.  As a new user you will see two
       folder labels, one for inbox and drafts.  The inbox folder is for your
       new messages, and the drafts folder is for messages you are writing.
       If you have used MH (or xmh) before, then you may have many more
       folders that will appear in this display.  The mouse bindings for
       folder labels are explained in the exmh-use man page.  The Color Legend
       from the Help menu also tells you how the folder labels respond to
       mouse clicks.

       Folder Cache.  A second folder display called the folder cache may
       appear under the main folder display.  This shows the folder labels for
       recently used folders.  If you only have a few folders this wastes
       screen real estate.  The PREFERENCES section near the end of this man
       page explains how to turn this off via the Folder Cache preferences
       setting.  If you are a first-time exmh user, Exmh tries to guess if you
       need this display based on the number of folders and nested folders you
       have.

       Folder Buttons.  The middle set of buttons is for operations that apply
       to folders.  For example, you can create a new folder with the New
       button here.  The More... button displays a popup menu with several
       more operations you can apply to folders.  Some of these buttons will
       be introduced in this man page.  All of these buttons and menus are
       explained in detail in the exmh-ref man page.

       To the left of the folder buttons, summary information about the
       current folder is displayed.

       Table of Contents.  The middle subwindow of the display shows a summary
       of the messages in the folder.  It shows the message number, the date
       of the mesage, the subject of the message, and, space permitting, the
       first few words of the message.  Left click on a line in the table of
       contents to view the corresponding message.  The mouse bindings for the
       table of contents are described in more detail in the exmh-use man
       page.

       MH experts: The display in this window comes from both the MH scan
       program or MH inc programs, so it is affected by the form specification
       used by these programs.

       Color and Monochrome Highlights.  Both the folder display and table of
       contents windows use highlights to give you visual clues about the
       state of messages and folders.  Your unread messages are highlighted in
       the table of contents and the folders that contain unread message are
       highlighted in the folder display.  Pull down the main Help menu and
       select Color Legend to display a key to the highlights for your
       display.  The highlighting is covered in more detail later in the exmh-
       use man page.  The exmh-custom man page tells how you can control the
       highlighting yourself.

       Status Line.  Just below the table of contents is the status line.
       This has two parts.  The left part shows the name of the folder and the
       message number for the current message, if any.  The right part gives
       feedback about what exmh is doing.  After it displays a message, the
       Subject component is displayed there.

       Subwindow Resize Diamond.  The black diamond to the right of the status
       line is used to change the size of the internal windows.  Press the
       first mouse button on this target and a horizontal line appears.  Drag
       it up and down to adjust the window sizes.  Try dragging it all the way
       to the top and bottom of the exmh window to see how the mode changes to
       adjust different windows.

       Message Buttons The bottom row of buttons are for operations that apply
       to the current message.  Several of these operations will be introduced
       in this man page.  The right hand button labeled More... brings up a
       menu with several more advanced message operations.

       Hint: Many of these message operations have keyboard shortcuts that
       make it easy to use exmh with your hands on the keyboard.  Some of the
       short-cuts are introduced in this man page, and all of them are listed
       in the exmh-use man page.

       Message Display.  The bottom subwindow displays the current message, if
       any.  Some of the less interesting mail headers start out scrolled off
       the top of this window.

SENDING MAIL
       A good way to test things out is to send a message to yourself.  Here
       are the steps you take to do that:

       1.  Click the Send button, which is in the Message buttons in the
       bottom group.  A new window will open that contains the template for
       your message.  The built-in editor, which is called sedit, will start
       out with the insert cursor positioned at the end of the first empty
       header line.  Enter your user name after the To: header.  If you want
       to send the message to more than one person, use a comma to separate
       the names.

       2.  Position the insert cursor on the next header line.  You can do
       this a few different ways.  The most direct way is to click the left
       mouse button where you want the cursor to be.  There are keyboard
       shortcuts, too.  If you press <Tab> the editor will take you to the end
       of the next header line.  You can also use the arrow keys or some
       emacs-like bindings to move the cursor.  <Control-n> goes to the next
       line, <Control-f> moves the cursor forward a character.  <Control-p>
       moves up a line, and <Control-b> moves back a character.  The Simple
       Edit menu entry shows you all the keybindings.

       3.  The next header is the Cc: line.  People listed in the Cc: line get
       a "courtesy" (or "carbon") copy of the message.  By convention, the
       message is primarily for the people listed in the To: component, and
       the people in the Cc: component are getting the message "for
       information."  In this case, you can leave the Cc: component empty.

       Move the insert cursor to the Subject: line and enter a Subject.  The
       people that receive your message will get an idea of what the message
       is about from the subject, so take a moment to think of a good one.
       For this test, you can type something like "exmh test message".

       4.  Make sure the headers are OK.  In particular, make sure there are
       no blank lines in the headers.  The mail system treats a blank line as
       meaning "end-of-headers", so you don't want to prematurely end the
       header section.  If you have a blank line, position the insert cursor
       on it and use Backspace to remove the empty line.

       Position the cursor at the start of the message body.  You can use the
       mouse for this, or you can press <Tab> twice quickly and the editor
       will position the cursor correctly.  When using the default MH message
       templates, this will be right after the line of all dashes.

       5.  Type in your message.  When you type in a long message, the lines
       will wrap automatically at word boundaries.  To get a blank line for
       paragraph boundaries, press <Return>.  The built-in editor supports
       several editting commands that are based on the GNU emacs key bindings.
       If you select the Simple Edit menu entry under the main Bindings menu,
       you will bring up a dialog that lets you view and edit the key
       bindings.

       6.  If you are happy with the message, you send it by pressing the Send
       button at the top-right corner of the window.  The Send button will
       turn grey, and the window will disappear once the message has been sent
       succesfully.

       If you do not want to send the message, press the Abort button instead.
       If you want to save the message draft and continue to work on it later,
       press the Save&Quit button.  Working on a saved draft message is
       described in the exmh-use man page.

       Send yourself a few messages, or have a friend send you a few test
       messages.  You will use these test messages to practice moving around
       in a folder and deleting messages.  Make one of the messages pretty
       long so you can practice scrolling through it.

       Finally, try sending mh-mime-sample@online.ora.com a message.  This
       addresses a program that will return a MIME message to you.  Just put
       this address in the To field with anything as the message body and
       subject.  Reading this message will be described below.

MOUSING AROUND
       The selection is dragged out with the left mouse button.  You can
       modify the selection by holding the Shift key while pressing the left
       button.  A double-click begins a word-oriented selection, and a triple-
       click begins a line-oriented selection.  If you drag a selection off
       the bottom or top of a window the text will be scrolled automatically
       and the selection will be extended.

       Paste is done with the middle mouse button.  The current insert point
       is used, not the point at which you middle-click.  If you drag the
       middle mouse button, then the window is scrolled instead as described
       below.  There is also a key-binding for paste, which is <Control-y>.
       Use <Control-w> or the <Delete> key to delete the selection.

       The middle mouse button is used for "drag-scrolling".  To scroll,
       simply press the middle mouse button over the text and drag the text.
       If you press the Shift key, the scrolling is faster.  Drag-scrolling
       works in the text widgets, for vertical scrolling, and the one-line
       entry widgets, for horizontal scrolling.  The text widgets are used to
       display the folder contents and the current message.  The entry widgets
       are used in various dialogs in order to enter values.  You can change
       the scrolling button to the right button or to only work with shift-
       middle.  Set this up in the Simple Edit Bindings... dialog.

       Buttons and menus are also sensitive to which mouse button is pressed.
       Only the left button activates a button, and it is the <ButtonRelease>
       event that is important.  If you accidentally move the mouse off of the
       button as you release it, nothing will happen.  Don't worry, the wrong
       button will not be invoked.

       Press the left button over a menubutton to  pull down a menu.  Most of
       the menus in exmh are distinguished with a "..."  in their label, e.g.
       "More...".  The menu will go away when the button is released.  Release
       the mouse button off the menu if you do not want to invoke any menu
       item.  (In some versions of Tk, the middle button will "tear off" a Tk
       menu.  This is quite handy if you use the menu often.  To get the menu
       to go away, you must click the left button over the menubutton.  This
       will reattach the menu to the menubutton, and another left click will
       make the menu go away.  In the latest versions of Tk, the first menu
       entry is a dashed line that invokes this tear-off operation.)

GETTING NEW MAIL
       By now you should have some new mail waiting.  Press the Inc button
       from the middle set of buttons that do Folder operations.  This will
       transfer messages from your system spool file into your inbox folder.
       You will hear an audible cue if there was new mail, and the table of
       contents will be updated to reflect the new messages in your inbox.
       New messages will be underlined (on a monochrome screen), or blue (on a
       color screen), to indicate that you have not read them yet.

       To view the new message, click on its line in the table of contents, or
       press the Next button in the bottom group of buttons.  The message will
       be displayed in the bottom subwindow, and the line in the table of
       contents will be highlighted to remind you which message is being
       displayed.

       To view the next message, click the Next button.  The keyboard shortcut
       for this is the 'n' key.

       The view the previous message, click the Prev button.  The keyboard
       shortcut for this is the 'p' key.

       Scrolling through messages.  If you get a message that is too long to
       fit into the message window, then the scrollbar will change its
       appearance to indicate how much text is displayed.  The scrollbar is
       Motif-like.  You can click on the arrows at either end to go up and
       down one line.  If you click above or below the elevator box you go up
       and down one page.  You can drag the elevator box to scroll, too.

       You can also scroll text windows in exmh by dragging with the middle
       mouse button.  Press the middle button over the text area, not the
       scrollbar, and hold it down while you move the mouse up or down.  If
       you hold the shift key at the same time, the scrolling is faster.  This
       works in the folder Table of Contents window, too.

       Hint.  The space bar is a keyboard short-cut that does a combination of
       scrolling and advancing to the next message.  If the message is long,
       then space will scroll by one screen.  Once you are at the end of the
       message, space will advance to the next message, just like the 'n' key.
       You can use the BackSpace key to scroll back through a message.

READING MIME MESSAGES
       By now you should have also received the sample MIME message from mh-
       mime-sample@online.ora.com.  The MIME message has three parts to it,
       and these are numbered and labeled in the display.  The first part is a
       multipart/alternative content, which means there are a few different
       ways to view the content.  This is indicated by the message under the
       heading 1. that there are alternative views of the following content.
       Exmh will go ahead and display what it thinks is the best alternative,
       and you see the text/enriched content displayed in part 1.2.  If you
       want to see the other alternatives, then you can press the right button
       over section 1 to get a popup menu with some choices.

       The next two parts are an audio clip and a picture in GIF format.  The
       audio clip is handled directly by exmh, and it displays two active text
       buttons labeled "Play attached audio" and "Save audio file".  Click on
       either of these with the left mouse button.  The part corresponding to
       the image displays a message about what the type is, and suggests that
       you press the right mouse button to display a menu.  You can always
       press the right button to get a MIME menu that has type-specific
       options for parts of your message.  If you press the right button over
       part 2., then the popup menu will offer you these choices: Decode part
       as MIME Save Hello from the author...  View using mailcap rule...  Pass
       an audio fragment to metamail...  The first item is a checkbox menu
       item that lets you view the raw content if you want to.  The Save...
       menu entry displays a file selection box so you can choose a non-
       temporary file to store the content.  This same function is available
       through the text button, but not all MIME parts displays buttons like
       this.  The next two entries should result in the same thing.  They use
       the mailcap specifications to run another program that displays the
       content.  In the first case, View using mailcap rule..., exmh runs the
       program directly.  In the other case, Pass to metamail..., the metamail
       program is run first, and it decodes the mailcap file and runs the
       external program.  Again, the text button labeled "Play attached audio"
       also plays the audio.

REPLYING TO MAIL
       Select one of the messages from your friend that you'd like to answer.
       Press the left button over the Reply... menu button.  A menu with a few
       entries will be displayed.  Select the Reply to sender menu entry by
       dragging the mouse down to that entry and letting up over it.  The menu
       entry has a <Key-r> in it, which means that you could also press the
       'r' key to invoke this function.

       This time the built-in editor will open a window with a message that is
       partly filled in.  All the headers are initialized based on the header
       components from the original message.  The built-in editor will
       automatically position the cursor at the begining of the message body.
       You can enter your reply message like you did with the previous
       messages.  You should also double-check the header components.  In this
       case, add yourself to the Cc: component so you will get a copy of the
       reply message.  When you are done, press the Send button in the editor
       window to send the message.

       There are a number of ways to control the format of your reply
       messages.  The MH repl command has several formatting options, and
       because exmh uses repl to set up the reply message, you can customize
       your reply format.  Exmh lets you define several variations on reply
       and add them to the Reply... menu.  This is described in the exmh-
       custom man page.

       It should not take long for you to get the copy of the reply message.
       Wait a minute or so and press the Inc button.  The keyboard short-cut
       for Inc is the 'i' key.

SELECTING MESSAGES
       Before we go on to more things you can do with messages, we need to
       talk about selecting multiple messages at once.  Several of the message
       operations in exmh can operate on a set of messages.  You can manually
       select multiple messages by using the mouse, or you can select messages
       based on their content.

       Using the Mouse.  To select messages with the mouse, press the left
       button and then drag out a selection.  This will select a contiguous
       range of messages.  If the messages you want to select are not so
       nicely organized, you can make a disjoint selection by holding down the
       Shift key while making your selection.  This adds new messages to the
       selection.  If you shift-click on a message that is already selected,
       then it becomes unselected.  If you need to select a lot of messages,
       simply drag the mouse off the top or bottom of the window.  It will be
       scrolled automatically and the selection will be extended.

SEARCHING
       The Search... menu has several operations for finding messages and
       finding text within a message.  There is also a help entry that
       explains searching in more detail.

       If you select "Find in message body" or "Find in table of contents" a
       small search dialog appears.  Enter the search string and use the Next
       or Prev buttons to find the next match.  When you are searching over
       the table of contents, you can select All to select all matching
       messages.

       The other way to search a folder is with "Pick by attributes".  The MH
       pick program is used to search the current folder for messages that
       match mail headers like From or Subject.  You can build up boolean
       expressions among search criteria.  This is a much more general search
       mechanism than the "Find in table of contents" operation.

       Get started in the Pick dialog by pressing the "Choose pick attribute"
       button.  A menu of attribute types appears, including the Subject,
       From, To, and Cc header components.  You can type a regular expression
       pattern in these entries to search for messages that have a matching
       header component.

       The Before and After attributes are dates.  You can find all messages
       before or after a given date by using these fields.  You can specify
       dates as mm/dd/yy.  Be sure to include the year.  Dates can also be
       keywords like "today", "yesterday", "tomorrow", and any day of the week
       ("Sunday", "Monday", and so on.)

       The Search attribute is used to search for something in the body of a
       message.  This will run little slower because pick must read through
       all of your messages, not just their headers.

       If you select more than one attribute, pick finds messages that match
       all the criteria.  In otherwords, it does the logical and of the search
       criteria.  If you want to search for this or that, then you need to
       press the Or button in the dialog.  This adds another set of fields to
       the dialog, and pick will search for everthing that matches the first
       set or matches the second set.

       The "Add to Sel" checkbutton should be set before you do the search.
       This controls whether or not the selected messages are added to any
       existing selection.

       Finally, use the "Pick" button to do the search.  Once the search has
       completed you can perform a few operations on the selection.  You can
       delete and refile messages as described later.  You can also display a
       new table of contents that only contains the selected messages.  Use
       the "New FTOC" button for this.  You can also clear the unseen state of
       the messages with the "Mark Seen" button.

       The "Clear" button resets the fields.

       The two entries in the dialog are used to control MH sequences.  The
       only sequence exmh really supports well is the "unseen" sequence,
       although you can define up to 10 sequences in each folder.

       If you use New FTOC to get a new scan listing, it would be better if it
       appeared in a new window, but currently it replaces the table of
       contents.  You can move around and manipulate messages in this table of
       contents.  However, if you do another pick, it will only find things in
       this limited table of contents, not the whole folder.  (Yes, this is a
       bug .)  Use the Rescan Folder menu entry in the folder More... menu to
       get a complete folder listing.

FORWARDING MESSAGES
       If you want to send someone a copy of a message or messages that you
       have received, use the Forward message operation.  Select the messages
       as described in the previous section, then press the Forward button.
       The keyboard short-cut for forward is the 'f' key.

       The message template will have a copy of the selected messages.  You
       fill in the headers, and you can also add a short message before the
       start of the forwarded messages.  When you are done, press Send to
       forward the messages.

DELETING MESSAGES
       After you have read a message, you might want to remove it to keep your
       mail folders tidy.  Exmh uses two steps to remove mail.  In the first
       step you mark a message as being deleted.  In the second step you
       commit the operations on all marked messages.  It turns out that delete
       just renames your message files.  They will survive until you get
       another message by the same number and remove it, too.  In addition,
       exmh has a "Purge Folder" operation that removes these renamed files if
       they are more than a week old.

       The Delete operation applies to the current message, or you can also
       select a range of messages by dragging out a selection in the table of
       contents.  You can delete the current message(s) by pressing the Delete
       button.  The keyboard short-cut is the 'd' key.  The deleted message(s)
       will be highlighted after the delete operation so you can easily see
       the state of the message.  On a monochrome screen, a cross hatching
       will be drawn through the table of contents line for the message.  On a
       color screen, the table of contents line will get a dark grey
       background.

       After you mark a message for delete, you are automatically advanced to
       the next message.  This makes it easy to go through your folder and
       clean it up.  Click 'd' to delete, or click 'n' to leave it alone.

       Hint.  If you are really in a hurry, use 'D' and 'N' as your keyboard
       short-cuts.  This prevents the next message from being displayed, which
       can be slow for complex multi-media messages.

       When you are ready to commit the pending delete actions, press the
       Commit button.  The keyboard shortcut for commit is <Control-Return>.

       If you decide you do not want to delete a message you can unmark it.
       Use the Unmark (Undo) menu entry that is under the message More...
       menu.  The unmark operation applies to the current message or messages,
       so you have to select the messages to unmark first.  The keyboard
       short-cut for unmark is 'u'.

       Hint.  The minus, '-', keyboard shortcut takes you to the previous
       message, even if it has been marked for delete.  Ordinarily the Prev
       operation, and the 'p' short-cut for it, will skip over marked
       messages.

LEAVING EXMH
       Press the Quit button to leave exmh.  It will take a few moments to
       close down because it saves some state information before quitting.
       The Quit button will grey out after you click it, and you will see a
       few status messages as it shuts itself down.

PREFERENCES
       Try out the Preferences by turning off the folder cache.  This just
       takes up display space if you don't have many folders.  If you have
       lots of nested folders, though, you might even want to make this
       display bigger!

       Click the Preference button, which brings up a dialog that has buttons
       for several of the modules that make up exmh.  Click on the Folder
       Cache button to bring up the preference items that control the folder
       cache.  In this case there are just two items: the number of lines of
       labels in the cache, and the names of folders that are always in the
       cache.  Click in the first field and backspace over the default value
       of 1.  Type in 0 instead, and press <Return>.  Voila!  The folder cache
       disappears.

       If you like this setting, press Save one the main Preference dialog and
       your changes will be saved to a file named ~/.exmh-defaults.  Press
       Reset if you want to undo your changes.  You should be a little careful
       here, because you are allowed to Dismiss the preference dialog without
       saving.

       Another useful preference item to set is under Background Processing.
       You can arrange for exmh to periodically run inc so your messages are
       automatcially transferred into your inbox.  The advantage of doing this
       is that the folder label highlighting works best this way.
       Unfortunately, exmh does not give you any visual clues when mail is
       only waiting in your system spool file.

       More details about the Preferences dialog are given in the exmh-use man
       page, and an overview of the various preference sections is given in
       the exmh-custom man page..

WHAT IS MH MAIL?
       MH is a collection of UNIX programs that store, manipulate, and display
       your mail. MH originated from RAND, and it is now in the public domain.
       Exmh uses these programs to do all the hard work, while it concentrates
       on the user interface.

       You can use the MH programs to read your mail.  Run them from the UNIX
       command line like you would cd, ls, cc, or make.  They are useful when
       you are connecting over a slow line or cannot run exmh for some other
       reason.  For more details, there are individual man pages for each MH
       program, plus one overview man page called MH.  Below is a short
       summary of the main MH programs used by exmh.

       folder Query or set the current folder.

       inc    Incorporate mail from your system spool file into your folders.

       scan   Display a listing of a mail folder.

       show   Display a mail message.

       next   Display the next mail message.  (Exmh doesn't actually run
              this.)

       prev   Display the previous mail message.  (Exmh doesn't actually run
              this.)

       rmm    Delete a mail message.

       refile Move a message into another mail folder.

       repl   Reply to a mail message

       forw   Forward one or more mail messages.

       comp   Compose a new mail message.

       MH keeps track of the current folder and the current message in between
       uses of these MH programs.  For example: % scan +inbox unseen 1713
       04/14 foote.PARC@xerox.  Have you started blasting cdroms
       yet?<<Probably.  1715  04/14 FlashBack Publish  1232: Tactix Introduces
       Break through in Unix Ad 1716  04/14 FlashBack Publish  1234: CERT
       Advisory - NCSA HTTP Daemon for UNIX< 1717 M04/15 To:welch
       PGP test<<-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2 1718 M04/17
       flash@flashback.c  mime-flashback-w MIME FlashBack April 13th, 1995
       1719 -04/16 Bill Wohler        Notes for MH Chapters 20-22<<Brent, I
       have been 1720+-04/17 "Allen R. Carl"    Re: Tabs<<Brent, where is this
       -tabs resource se % show 1717 (Message 1717 displayed) % next (Message
       1718 displayed) % rmm (Message 1718 deleted) % repl 1717 (Set up
       template for reply to message 1717, invoke editor)

       Each user has a .mh_profile file that stores general MH settings as
       well as per-command settings.  Each line has a key, and a value.  For
       example, your mail directory is set with the Path profile entry: Path:
       Mail

       If your old mail system uses that directory already, just edit your
       .mh_profile to change the name used for your MH mail folders.


MORE ABOUT EXMH
       This man page should get you started with exmh.  If you decide you want
       to know more about it, here are some of the features described in the
       other exmh man pages.

       MIME support.  Exmh can display MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
       Extensions) messages, either directly or with the help of the metamail
       package.  The built-in editor lets you compose enriched text messages
       and insert files as parts of a multipart message.

       Mail Folders.  You can create other mail folders to hold messages about
       certain topics or from certain people.  You can create a hierarchical
       arrangement of folders, just like the hierarchical directory structure
       of the file system.  The folder display supports these nested folders,
       and it allows you to nest folders to any depth.

       Mail Filtering.  Mail filtering lets you sort mail into different
       folders before you read it.  If you get lots of mail, this is a great
       way to avoid plowing through junk mail just to get your important
       messages.  The folder labels are highlighted to indicate which folders
       have unread mail in them.

       Facesaver bitmap display.  If you have a facesaver database on your
       system, exmh displays the bitmap face of the person that sent the
       current message (or their organization).

       Background processing.  You can set exmh to run inc periodically, check
       for new mesages arriving asynchronously in folders, run the MH msgchk
       program, or count up the messages in your mail spool file.

       Editor interface.  You can hook exmh to your favorite editor using the
       exmh-async script.  Or, Tcl-based editors such as mxedit can interact
       with exmh directly.

       Keybinding User Interface.  You can define new key bindings for Tcl
       commands that are part of the implementation.

       Aliases User Interface.  A browser for your MH aliases lets you define
       new aliases and insert aliases into mail messages.

       Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).  If you have PGP, you can use it from exmh
       to digitally sign, encrypt, and decrypt messages.

       User Programming.  If the preference settings are not enough for you,
       you can program exmh more directly.  You can define new buttons and
       menus and add new Tcl code to its implementation.

SEE ALSO
       exmh-use, exmh-ref, exmh-custom, mh

AUTHOR
       Brent Welch, <welch@acm.org>

THANKS
       To Xerox PARC/CSL, for supporting this work initially, to Sun
       Microsystems Laboratories for continuing the support, and to all the
       exmh users that contributed ideas and code.



Exmh 2.0                       December 3, 1996                   EXMH TOUR(1)
