MH and nmh Section Home Page

This is the home page for the MH and nmh section of the online book MH & nmh: Email for Users & Programmers.

This book covers MH (which isn't being actively developed) as well as nmh, the new and updated MH. It also covers three interfaces to MH and nmh: mh-e, exmh and xmh. One big difference between MH and most other mail user agents is that you can use MH from a UNIX shell prompt (like % or $). Those three interfaces all hide the command line from you. Why would you want to read about plain MH if you can use an interface?

All the features of UNIX shells (pipes, redirection, history, aliases, and so on) work with MH -- you don't have to learn a new interface.
You've got access to all the options and other configuration that's hidden behind a menu, or another command, inside the interfaces.
There are plenty of advantages to using an MH interface. But if you understand what's going on underneath (what MH is doing) you'll be better at using and customizing that interface.

Okay, enough hype. To start reading about MH and nmh, just click on the section table of contents.

[Table of Contents] [Index] [Overall Section Home Page] [exmh Section Home Page] [mh-e Section Home Page] [xmh Section Home Page]

Last change $Date: 2004/03/04 14:07:59 $

This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This file is freely available; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see the file copying.htm.

Suggestions are welcome: Jerry Peek