MH Reference Guide

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ali: list MH mail aliases

anno: annotate messages

burst: explode digests into messages

comp: compose a message

dist: redistribute a message to more addresses

flist: list folders that contain messages in a given sequence (nmh only)

folder: set/list current folder/message

folders: do folder -all

forw: forward messages

inc: incorporate new mail

mark: handle message sequences

mhbuild: build a draft MIME message (nmh only)

mhl: produce formatted listing of MH messages

mhlist: summarize MIME messages (nmh only)

mhmail: send or read mail

mhn: process MIME mail

mhparam: read context and profile files

mhpath: full pathnames of folder or messages

mhshow: display MIME messages (nmh only)

mhstore: extract MIME message parts (nmh only)

msgchk: check for messages

msh: MH shell

next: show the next message

packf: compress folder (MH version makes only MMDF format)

packmbox: compress folder into mailbox format file (MH only)

pick: select messages by content

prev: show the previous message

prompter: prompting editor front-end

rcvdist: redistribute mail from standard input

rcvpack: store message from standard input to file

rcvstore: store message from standard input to folder

rcvtty: notify user about message from standard input

refile: file messages in other folders

repl: reply to a message

rmf: remove folder

rmm: remove messages

scan: produce a summary of each message

send: send a message

sendfiles: same as viamail (nmh only)

show: show (display) messages

slocal: process .maildelivery on non-MMDF systems

sortm: sort messages

viamail: send files in MIME format, with tar and compress

whatnow: prompting front-end

whom: report to whom a message would go