More About xmh

The Chapter Using xmh goes into detail about xmh features introduced here, as well as other features. It explains more about sequences, which provide a way to organize and keep track of your messages, and also covers other xmh features such as folders. You can change the way that xmh works, too -- the Chapter Customizing xmh explains how.

Here's a list of commonly-used features of xmh -- and a few others that are good to know, anyway.

• Organize messages into folders and subfolders; "link" messages into multiple folders without taking more disk space. (Section Organizing Messages with Folders.)
• If you accidentally remove a message, get it back. (Section Deleting (and Restoring) Messages.)
• Reorder messages in a folder many different ways. (Sections Sorting a Folder and Changing Command Options with edprofile.)
• Print your messages flexibly. (Section Changing the Print Command.)
• Store long mail address(es) in an alias. (Sections Aliases and MH Aliases.)
• Handle many draft messages at a time with the draft folder. (Section Draft Messages and the drafts Folder.)
• Add your standard "signature" text to the ends of messages automatically. (Section Add Text to Drafts: mysend.)
• Customize and change the headers of mail you send. (Section Template Draft Files Set Headers.)
• All about editing. (Section Editing in xmh.)
• Reformat the Table of Contents. (Section Changing Table of Contents.)
• Search for messages, store the lists automatically for reuse any time later. (Section Using Pick.)
• Handle incoming mail automatically. (Section Incorporate New Mail, Chapter Processing New Mail Automatically.)
• Insert original message into your reply with custom formatting. (Section ReplyInsertFilter.)
• Change and add buttons and accelerators. (Section Changing Buttons; Accelerators.)
• Set colors. (Section Adding Color.)

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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