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1) What is nmh?

    nmh (new MH) is an electronic mail handling system.  It is based on
    version 6.8.3 of the MH message system originally developed by the
    RAND Corporation and the University of California.

2) Is it nmh, Nmh, nMH, NMH?

   It's nmh.  I hate capital letters.

3) Who is developing nmh?

   Richard Coleman
   coleman@math.gatech.edu
   http://www.math.gatech.edu/~coleman

4) Why are you developing nmh?

   For several reasons.
   a) It's an interesting project.
   b) I like using MH/nmh.
   c) I wanted to increase the portability of MH.
   d) I wanted to make MH easier to install (convert to autoconf).
   e) I wanted to remove all the unnecessary junk from the
      MH distribution (pop daemon, bulletin board support, etc...).

5) What is the copyright status of nmh?

   nmh is distributed under a variant of the classical BSD copyright.
   Check the COPYRIGHT file in the nmh distribution for the details.
   There are some specific files which were contributed to the original
   MH package that are copyrighted by their original author.  I have
   retained the copyright notices of these authors in these files.

   Essentially, you can do anything you want with the nmh package as long
   as you don't blame me if it trashes all your mail.

6) What is the difference between nmh and MH?

   Check the file DIFFERENCES in the nmh distribution for a list of
   differences between nmh and MH.

7) Which mail transfer agents (MTA's) are supported?

   Currently only sendmail is supported.  Also there is optional
   client-side support for POP.

8) Where do I get nmh?

    The latest version of nmh is available at
    ftp://ftp.math.gatech.edu/pub/nmh/nmh.tar.gz

9) Where is the nmh web page?

    The nmh home page is located at
    http://www.math.gatech.edu/nmh/

10) Where is the nmh mailing list?

    There is a mailing list for nmh development at:
    nmh-workers@math.gatech.edu

    To subscribe, send e-mail to the administrative address:
    nmh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu

    with the subject "subscribe e-mail-address"
    (without the quotes).

11) Where do I report bugs in nmh?

    Send bug reports and suggestions to
    nmh-workers@math.gatech.edu

12) Why doesn't the (X)Emacs package `mh-e' work with
    nmh?

    In nmh, the MH lib directory has been split into a `etc' directory
    contain configuration files and components, and a `lib' directory
    contain support binaries.  So mh-e has trouble finding the components
    for composing new mail or replies.  Depending on the install location
    of nmh at your site, you will need to add something similar to the
    following to your .emacs file.

    ;; set a few mh-e variables for nmh
    (setq mh-progs "/usr/local/nmh/bin/")
    (setq mh-lib "/usr/local/nmh/lib/")
    (setq mh-comp-formfile "/usr/local/nmh/etc/components")
    (setq mh-repl-formfile "/usr/local/nmh/etc/replcomps")

