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. We're adding 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 the email address at the end of any page and send us a note. Thanks!

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This book covers MH and several interfaces to MH. The Road Map is a good place to start. Or:

• Overall information for users of MH and all its interfaces. For example, it introduces all four packages and has an overview of MIME.
• MH starts with basic MH usage, then covers customization.
• xmh is a way to use MH from the X Window System.
• mh-e runs from the GNU Emacs editor.
• exmh, written with Tcl/Tk, works under the X Window System.

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.htm.