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Peter Davis | 22 May 17:20

Some questions ...

I've been dabbling with MH-E for a while, along with several other mail
tools that operate on MH folder (mutt, MH, Sylpheed-Claws, etc.)  I'm
now thinking of trying to use MH-E more, but I have some key questions I
can't seem to find answers to.

1) Is there some currently documentation somewhere?  Everything I've
found (on-line, info files, etc.) seems to be at V5 or 6 level, and I'm
using 7.2.

2) How can I set the "From:" in my outgoing mail?  Right now, it's
coming out with an invalid address (which is why I didn't use it for
this message.)

3) I use a Perl script to fetch my mail and pre-sort it into different
folders.  This uses rcvstore, so the .mh_sequences file in each folders
gets updated correctly.  Is there a way in MH-E to find out which
folders contain new messages?  New messages get put into about 20
folders out of several hundred on my system, so I don't want to have to
check all 20 to figure out which ones have new mail.

Thanks very much!

-pd

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Bill Wohler | 23 May 04:38
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Re: Some questions ...

Peter Davis <pfd <at> pfdstudio.com> wrote:

> 1) Is there some currently documentation somewhere?

I'm working on an update to the manual this summer and hope to have it
finished by the fall. In the meantime, read MH-E-NEWS to see what's new.
Do try "F n" in addition to the speedbar. Do use C-h m to see what's
available in a given mode. Do browse "M-x mh-customize mh RET".

The MH-E elves have answered the rest of your questions.

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Peter S Galbraith | 23 May 02:25
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Re: Some questions ...

I see Satyaki has already answered, but I'll add my 2 cents as well.

Peter Davis <pfd <at> pfdstudio.com> wrote:

> 1) Is there some currently documentation somewhere?  Everything I've
> found (on-line, info files, etc.) seems to be at V5 or 6 level, and I'm
> using 7.2.

The MH-E-NEWS file is a good read to catch up on new features.

> 2) How can I set the "From:" in my outgoing mail?  Right now, it's
> coming out with an invalid address (which is why I didn't use it for
> this message.)

I always setup my Mail Transport Agent (postfix in my case) to do the
From line correctly.  That way I can send mail from any client on the
machine.  So I've never really configured mts.conf to do that.

About multiple personalities, as Satyaki said, customize the variable
mh-identity-list to set them up and a new menu will appear in the
menubar.  If you want to use a certain one as default, customize the
variable mh-identity-default.  If you'd like to use a certain identity
for a certain email addresses you send to (a mailing list perhaps), or add
other custom fields, customize the variable mh-auto-fields-list.

All these are available at a glance with:

M-x customize-group[RET]mh-identity[RET]

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Satyaki Das | 22 May 22:10
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Re: Some questions ...

Peter Davis <pfd <at> pfdstudio.com> writes:

> 1) Is there some currently documentation somewhere?  Everything I've
> found (on-line, info files, etc.) seems to be at V5 or 6 level, and I'm
> using 7.2.

There isn't any just yet. We do try to make the doc strings of the
interactive functions and customization variables informative.

> 2) How can I set the "From:" in my outgoing mail?  Right now, it's
> coming out with an invalid address (which is why I didn't use it for
> this message.)

This is a nmh thing. In your mts.conf you need the following (I am
not sure if you need the localname, but you definitely should have
the masquerade):

   localname: pdfstudio.com
   masquerade: draft_from

Then in your components file you can add a from header,

   From: Peter Davis <pfd <at> pfdstudio.com>

Then check if nmh does the right thing.

> 3) I use a Perl script to fetch my mail and pre-sort it into different
> folders.  This uses rcvstore, so the .mh_sequences file in each folders
> gets updated correctly.  Is there a way in MH-E to find out which
> folders contain new messages?  New messages get put into about 20
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Peter Davis | 22 May 22:25

Re: Some questions ...

On Thu, 22 May 2003 13:10:09 -0700
"Satyaki Das" <satyakid <at> stanford.edu> wrote:

> Peter Davis <pfd <at> pfdstudio.com> writes:
> 
> > 1) Is there some currently documentation somewhere?  Everything I've
> > found (on-line, info files, etc.) seems to be at V5 or 6 level, and
> > I'm using 7.2.
> 
> There isn't any just yet. We do try to make the doc strings of the
> interactive functions and customization variables informative.

Ok, so what's the best place to find out what these functions and
variables are?  ChangeLog?

> > 2) How can I set the "From:" in my outgoing mail?  Right now, it's
> > coming out with an invalid address (which is why I didn't use it for
> > this message.)
> 
> This is a nmh thing. In your mts.conf you need the following (I am
> not sure if you need the localname, but you definitely should have
> the masquerade):
> 
>    localname: pdfstudio.com
>    masquerade: draft_from
> 
> Then in your components file you can add a from header,
> 
>    From: Peter Davis <pfd <at> pfdstudio.com>
>
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Satyaki Das | 22 May 22:34
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Re: Some questions ...

Peter Davis <pfd <at> pfdstudio.com> writes:

> On Thu, 22 May 2003 13:10:09 -0700
> "Satyaki Das" <satyakid <at> stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> > There isn't any just yet. We do try to make the doc strings of the
> > interactive functions and customization variables informative.
> 
> Ok, so what's the best place to find out what these functions and
> variables are?  ChangeLog?

You could get a listing of all interactive functions callable from
a folder buffer by pressing "C-h m" there.

> Ah, yes.  I haven't touched a components file in years.  Sorry, I had
> forgotten.  So I could do multiple "personalities" by using different
> components files for sending?  That would be great.

Well, MH-E has support for multiple identites. Customize
mh-identity-list to create these. Then you can use the menu in
the draft buffer to select the identity. This doesn't use the
components file.

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