exmh.README.html

Contents

• Version
• New EXMH Installers
• Required and Optional Packages
• Known Bugs
• Getting Help
• Flashes
• Performance Hints
• Reverse Video
• Colorized Headers
• Mailing Lists
• Acknowledgments
• Features
• Installation
• Tk Send Problem
• Concluding Remarks
• Author

Version

exmh is a TCL/TK based interface to the MH mail system.

Version 2.8 requires Tcl/Tk 8.3 or higher. exmh is known to work with nmh versions 1.3 and higher, which is available at http://www.nongnu.org/nmh

Experienced EXMH installers should check FLASHES below and the exmh.CHANGES file.

New EXMH installers

The exmh documentation is now all in HTML and viewable from within exmh.

Please encourage your exmh users to REGISTER via the Register menu entry under the Help... menu. This lets me track exmh usage and get user feedback. I won't abuse this registration - there is no obligation associated with registration, but I would like all exmh users to do it.

All registration does is send me a mail message. You get to add your comments, pro and con, about exmh. I've learned a lot from the 2000+ registrations I have received so far. Thanks!

Other software you'll need

Known Bugs

Exmh Wiki

Frequently Asked Questions

Flashes

• 2.8.0 A tarball release after many, many years. Lots of good stuff has accumulated in the CVS source base. You'll need to troll through the exmh.CHANGES file for a record. Many thanks to the CVS committers.
• 2.7.2 More bug fixes, plus some performance improvements for the new sequences code added in 2.6. The exmh-strip utility is integrated as "Save/Extract Attachments".
• 2.7.1 (Wasn't officially released in tarball form.)
• 2.7.0 Accumulates over a year of minor fixes in the CVS tree.
• 2.6.3 Fixed awful pauses caused by sequence searching in the front end. Fixed inc-on-startup.
• 2.6.2 Fixed Flist button, some optimizations to sequence handling.
• 2.6.1 Various fixes, but the Flist button is broken.
• 2.6 adds generalized sequence handling and fixes various bugs.
• 2.5 adds color highlighting for in-lined replies. Fixes a bug with "Keep on Send" in 2.4.
• 2.4 accumulates bug fixes and some code cleanup.
• 2.3.1 fixed an installation bug in 2.3 that showed up when you installed without the .exmhinstall cache file.
• 2.3 captures 6 months of feature tweaks and bug fixes by the hard working exmh-workers crew. The CVS sources are now at SourceForge.
• 2.1 and 2.2 were made while Brent was at Scriptics/Ajuba.
• 2.0.3 is done as Brent finally moves the sources into net CVS and asks for help maintaining the code. For more info on CVS, see http://www.scriptics.com/software/netcvs.html
• 2.0.2 is done as Brent leaves Sun for Scriptics Corp, http://www.scriptics.com/. I've tried to shift all email contact to <welch@acm.org>, and am housing exmh at http://www.beedub.com/exmh/.
• 2.0.1 fixes a bug in mime.tcl that prevents temp files from being deleted.
• 2.0 is finally released. This collects a host of minor bug fixes, most notably to ispell and the address book.
• 2.0zeta fixes the exmh-netscape interaction that was added in 2.0epsilon.
• 2.0epsilon features cleanup of the address book, the ispell interface, and the intelligent signature features.
• 2.0delta is a collection of fixes and features.
• 2.0gamma is more bug fixes, especially in the new HTML code. There is also a new Quote package that computes a cleaned up version of the message to which you are replying.
• 2.0beta has many bug fixes for the alpha release. The new line-breaking behavior of the built-in editor has been made optional, with the old line-breaking behavior as the default.
• 2.3.1 fixed an installation bug in 2.3 that showed up when you installed without the .exmhinstall cache file.
• 2.3 captures 6 months of feature tweaks and bug fixes by the hard working exmh-workers crew. The CVS sources are now at SourceForge.
• 2.1 and 2.2 were made while Brent was at Scriptics/Ajuba.
• 2.0.3 is done as Brent finally moves the sources into net CVS and asks for help maintaining the code. For more info on CVS, see http://www.scriptics.com/software/netcvs.html
• 2.0.2 is done as Brent leaves Sun for Scriptics Corp, http://www.scriptics.com/. I've tried to shift all email contact to <welch@acm.org>, and am housing exmh at http://www.beedub.com/exmh/.
• 2.0.1 fixes a bug in mime.tcl that prevents temp files from being deleted.
• 2.0 is finally released. This collects a host of minor bug fixes, most notably to ispell and the address book.
• 2.0zeta fixes the exmh-netscape interaction that was added in 2.0epsilon.
• 2.0epsilon features cleanup of the address book, the ispell interface, and the intelligent signature features.
• 2.0delta is a collection of fixes and features.
• 2.0gamma is more bug fixes, especially in the new HTML code. There is also a new Quote package that computes a cleaned up version of the message to which you are replying.
• 2.0beta has many bug fixes for the alpha release. The new line-breaking behavior of the built-in editor has been made optional, with the old line-breaking behavior as the default.
• 2.0alpha folds in many user contributed features and an HTML viewer for documentation. This version requires Tk 4.1 for socket support and some other features. There is a new Top Ten List in preferences that consolidates the most important preference settings into one place.
• 1.6.9 fixes to font selector and sedit formatting.
• 1.6.8 is more bug fixes. Cut and paste finally fixed? Font selector added.
• 1.6.7 is more bug fixes. Most notable is fixing up of the Paste operation in the editor.
• 1.6.6 is a collection of bug fixes and minor improvements. The next big release will be a 1.7/or/2.0alpha that rips out support for Tk 3.6 and folds in various contributions. There may still also be a 1.6.7 to fix bugs in 1.6.6
• 1.6.5 includes an overhaul of the Flist module that highlights folders with unseen messages, and counts unseen messages in total. This also detects 8-bit characters in all cases within Sedit. CLIPBOARD support for OpenWindows users (Tk 4.* only) TMPDIR and EXMHTMPDIR environment variables honored to map /tmp
• 1.6.4 has fixes for the bugs in 1.6.3
• 1.6.3 collects many minor enhancements, plus integrated ispell support for Sedit, and new faces code from John LoVerso. Check out the new "Faces Row" option to display all matching faces.
• 1.6.2 collects several minor enhancements
• 1.6.1 fixes two minor bugs and adds support for Sun Attachments.
• 1.6 released as Brent moves from PARC to Sun Labs. Exmh lives. This release is stable with Tk 3.6 and Tk 4.0b3. The FTP site and WWW Page will migrate to Sun shortly, although parcftp will continue to host exmh for a while. Update your bug mail address ("maintainer") to Welch@acm.org

Multidrop+Inc style inc has been added. Set up your .xmhcheck file to use the MyIncTmp folder. Any messages in that folder get sorted by slocal.

The man page has been chopped into 4 documents:
exmh.l - a tutorial
exmh-use.l - a more comprehensive user guide
exmh-custom.l - a guide to exmh customization
exmh-ref.l - a terse description of all buttons and menu entries.

Performance Hints

Squeeze the last drop out of message display by disabling the separator bars in message display. (Show Graphic Part Separator under MIME)

Really large folders make exmh run slowly. Take this as a hint to reorganize things into sub-folders if you have more than 500 or so messages in a folder.

Bound the unseen folder search by defining the .mh_profile

	Folder-Unseen: pattern pattern pattern

Reverse Video

! For widgets
*Background: black
*Foreground: white
! For highlights
*c_background: black
*c_foreground: whi