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MH-E 7.82 installed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Mon Apr 18 00:30:29 2005
From: Jacob Morzinski <morzinski@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
Cc: cfyi@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:30:03 -0400
Greetings,
This announcement may be interesting to those of you who are
still using MH tools to read your email. (If you don't know
whether you are using MH, you probably aren't using it.)
MH-E is the Emacs interface to the MH mail system. I've
installed the most recent version of MH-E, version 7.82, on
Athena. New features include the ability to Do the Right Thing
with mime mail, optional threading, and a more polished feel.
(New drawbacks include significant re-assignment of key bindings.)
This is the version of MH-E that is scheduled to be in the next
major release of GNU Emacs. You can patiently wait until Emacs
is released before being able to use modern MH-E... or you can
get a taste of the future today.
To use MH-E 7.82 for reading and sending mail, add the following
commands to your ~/.emacs file:
;; use MH-E version 7.82 (instead of the built-in MH-E, version 5.0.2)
(setq load-path
(add-to-list 'load-path
"/afs/sipb.mit.edu/contrib/emacs/packages/mh-e-7.82" 'nil))
(require 'mh-e-autoloads)
(setq mail-user-agent 'mh-e-user-agent)
Start MH-E with:
M-x mh-rmail (inc your mail and scan unseen messages in your inbox)
M-x mh-nmail (don't inc; scan your entire inbox)
C-x m compose-mail
Many key bindings have changed in the new version. Some useful
bindings to know about are:
C-h m describe-mode
F r mh-rescan-folder
F v mh-visit-folder
F s mh-search-folder
S l mh-list-sequences
S n mh-narrow-to-seq
S w mh-widen
T t mh-toggle-threads
Happy mailing,
-Jacob Morzinski
