New in the Third Edition

This third edition has been updated for X Release 6 and MH 6.8.3. Other changes include:

• How to use multimedia email with the MIME standard.
• Three chapters, written by Brent Welch, about exmh. Three chapters, by Bill Wohler, about MH-E. The Reference Guide covers exmh and MH-E.
• To make room for the new material, this edition doesn't include printed manual pages. If you don't have online manpages, there are now directions for obtaining them.
• The shell programming chapter is much less tutorial and more specific to MH. The old chapter describing shell programs is gone; the explanations have moved to the chapters where the program would be most useful, and the programming details are in Appendix D.
• There are even more tips for using MH in real applications.
• There are many new sections:
  • Using MIME,
  • Multiple MH Sessions,
  • Reading MIME Messages,
  • Listing MIME Message Parts,
  • MIME Fields in a Header,
  • Editor-next,
  • mhn Editing and automhnproc (later renamed to Building MIME Drafts),
  • Recovering MIME Drafts,
  • Composing and Sending MIME Messages,
  • Forwarding in MIME Format,
  • Working in an MH Directory,
  • Pack Messages into a File,
  • MIME Configuration,
  • International Character Support,
  • The digestcomps File,
  • Periodic Cleanup, Checking, etc. with cron and at,
  • Make Message Bookmarks with mark,
  • Filter Forwarded MIME Messages: mforw,
  • Show MIME Message Parts with showpart,
  • Get Message Number List: msgnums,
  • Settings from the MH Profile,
  • The Original MH Proposal.
• I've incorporated reader comments and suggestions.

This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. It 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 COPYING.

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