If you need to send a copy of a mail message to someone, you can forward it. To forward the current message, just type:
% forw
To forward other messages, use the message
numbers too. For example, to forward messages 3 and 5:
% forw 3 5
To: somebody
cc: somebodyelse
Subject: Messages I got about meeting tomorrow
-------
----- Enter initial text
Dear somebody, here's some mail I got. I think you might
want a copy of these. The second message is the most
important, blah blah blah...
^D
----- Forwarded messages
...Contents of message 3 here...
----- Message 2
...Contents of message 5 here...
----- End of Forwarded Messages
What now? push
%
Before it copies the messages you're forwarding, forw will
prompt you on the screen (this doesn't go into the message) to
enter any text ("initial text") you want to send along. (Note
that, although this is what seems to be happening, there's
more going on "behind the scenes.") You
can type initial text here and then press CTRL-D at the start of a
new line. Or, type CTRL-D right away to go straight to
the What now? prompt, where you'll have the usual
choices.
On the other hand, if you want to add a note after the forwarded messages or edit the forwarded messages themselves, use the edit command to go into the draft message with your favorite editor. You can also configure MH to let you put the note after the forwarded messages without going into an editor by using the prompter -noprepend switch.
The previous example showed a new way to send a message: the push command. The message is sent "in the background." On computers where send is slow, push gives you another prompt right away; you can do something else while MH is sending the message. That has a lot of advantages, but a few disadvantages. The Section push (or p) is worth reading before you use push again.
As most MH commands do, forw has several other features. Like repl, you can annotate the messages you forward (with -annotate. You can also reformat the forwarded messages to delete useless fields in the header or neaten the body.