MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers

The book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, written by Jerry Peek, was published by and is copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. In June, 1996, ORA made the book freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License; please read the information about copying and distribution.

This is an online version of the book's third edition. The book has been split into hundreds of (mostly-)small HTML files for fast loading. There are multiple indexes, tables of contents, and lots of links to make the book quick to use. Now that the book is online, it'll be easy to add new sections, more links, and other goodies. If you have suggestions, especially while this online version is new (and probably has bugs), please click on my email address at the end of any page and let me know. Thanks!

The MH Message Handling System is a set of electronic mail programs in the public domain. MH is free, powerful, flexible -- and the basics are easy to learn. This book also covers three popular interfaces to MH: xmh is a way to use MH from the X Window System. mh-e is an interface to MH that runs from the GNU Emacs editor. exmh is a new and popular MH interface, written with Tcl/Tk, that works under the X Window System.

Here's what's new: updates and new features. And some other notes:

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Here are the table of contents and the indexes. (Frames users: you don't need those links. Use the bottom two frames instead.)

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.html.