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Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature |
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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:51:17 -0400 |
ken wrote:
> >I don't remember all the places I looked and things I tried, nor do I
> >remember the order in which I did them. But here are some of the things I
> >tried:
> >
> > man attach
> > man -k attach
> > man whatnow (It told me the feature existed, but not much more)
> > man nmh (to see if there was a relevant man page)
> > man send (lots of hits for "attach" but nothing about the attach
> > command)
>
> So I guess this is partially the fault of the way nmh works; whatnow does
> some things (and implements the "attach" command) but the real mechanics
> are handled by "send". Sure, once you KNOW that what attach does is add
> a special header, the information in the send man page makes more sense.
>
> >In my humble (but correct :-) opinion there should be an attach
> >man page. It would, at the very least give the basic idea, (attach
> >generates certain headers which send understands), the syntax of the
> >command, and pointers to other man pages.
>
> See, I'm not so sure about that. It's not a new command that happens
> at the shell prompt; I think more information about it belongs in the
> whatnow man page. I know there's a man page for "send", but that's because
> it's a command.
>
> But I do appreciate the feedback; let me offer a counter-suggestion. How
> about some expansion of the "attach" command in whatnow(1) and a pointer
> to send(1), and a back-pointer in send(1) to whatnow(1). And maybe
> some clarification in send(1) as well.
attachments probably a mention in nmh.1 as well.
there's probably also room for a paragraph, somewhere, about where
and how MIME is dealt with, and where and how character sets are dealt
with.
either nmh.1 or mh-chart.1 could be expanded to have some notion of
command topics. i just did the following quickly (based on the
contents of nmh.1), and i feel like i've never used half the commands
mentioned, so i'm sure it can be improved. but you get the idea -- i
think something like this could replace the existing bare list in
nmh.1.
[btw, i just noticed that new/fnext/fprev/unseen are missing from
nmh.1. nmh.1 might also make bolder reference to mh-chart.1 -- i only
found mh-chart a few months ago, and now use it all the time as a
quick reference.]
Sending:
The three principle commands for sending mail are:
comp(1) - compose a message
forw(1) - forward messages
repl(1) - reply to a message
whatnow(1) - prompting front-end for send
whatnow is usually not invoked manually. it's invoked for
you by one of the above commands, after you've composed a
message in your editor, and before you've decided to send
it. Here you can add attachments, check the recipient
list, decide to quit and send it later, etc.
Related utilities:
ali(1) - list mail aliases
anno(1) - annotate messages
whom(1) - report to whom a message would go
dist(1) - redistribute a message to additional addresses
Advanced commands:
mhbuild(1) - translate MIME composition draft
send(1) - send a message
sendfiles(1) - send multiple files and directories in MIME message
Receiving:
The primary command for receiving mail:
inc(1) - incorporate new mail
Related utilities:
burst(1) - explode digests into messages
msgchk(1) - check for messages
rcvdist(1) - asynchronously redistribute new mail
rcvpack(1) - append message to file
rcvstore(1) - asynchronously incorporate new mail
slocal(1) - asynchronously filter and deliver new mail
Displaying:
The primary commands for viewing mail are:
next(1) - show the next message
prev(1) - show the previous message
show(1) - show(display) messages
scan(1) - produce a one line per message scan listing
Related utilities, only sometimes invoked directly:
mhl(1) - produce formatted listings of nmh messages
mhlist(1) - list information about content of MIME messages
mhn(1) - display/list/store/cache MIME messages
mhshow(1) - display MIME messages
mhstore(1) - store contents of MIME messages into files
Searching:
Within a folder:
pick(1) - select messages by content
Across folders:
new(1) - report on folders with new messages
flist(1) - list folders with messages in given sequence(s)
flists(1) - list all folders with messages in given sequence(s)
folder(1) - set/list current folder/message
folders(1) - list all folders
For doing full-text indexed searches of a large MH mailstore,
consider the mairix command, which is not part of MH.
Organizing:
mark(1) - mark messages
refile(1) - file messages in other folders
rmf(1) - remove folder
rmm(1) - remove messages
sortm(1) - sort messages
Convenience wrappers:
mhmail(1) - send or read mail
msh(1) - nmh shell(and BBoard reader)
Utility:
mhparam(1) - print nmh profile components
mhpath(1) - print full pathnames of nmh messages and folders
packf(1) - compress a folder into a single file
prompter(1) - prompting editor front end
rcvtty(1) - report new mail
>
> --Ken
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paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 52.0 degrees)
- [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, norm, 2012/09/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, Ken Hornstein, 2012/09/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, Jon Steinhart, 2012/09/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, norm, 2012/09/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, Ken Hornstein, 2012/09/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature,
Paul Fox <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, norm, 2012/09/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, Jon Steinhart, 2012/09/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, norm, 2012/09/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, Jon Steinhart, 2012/09/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, Ken Hornstein, 2012/09/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, Jon Steinhart, 2012/09/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, Ralph Corderoy, 2012/09/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, Ken Hornstein, 2012/09/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, norm, 2012/09/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature, Jon Steinhart, 2012/09/11