Thanks for the help I got. I succeded installing nmh (made an rpm) but in the
process I deleted some of the messages from my inbox including the
replies from this list.
I thought I mention ask the following:
1) I think it would be good to mention in INSTALL (or MACHINES) that
at least on redhat Linux 5.0 one needs to configure as
LIBS=-lgdbm ./configure
2) To be able to use nmh with qmail one needs to do
a) use --with-mts=sendmail
b) After make run the script
(
cd zotnet/mts
sed -e 's}^mmdfldir: /var/spool/mail}mmdfldir:}' \
-e 's}^mmdflfil:}mmdflfil: Mailbox}' mts.conf
> mts.conf.new
mv mts.conf.new mts.conf
)
or set MAILDROP=~/Mailbox
c) put in .mh_profile:
postproc: /usr/local/nmh/lib/spost
3) Though I have a components file in my MhMail directory, it is not
used by Emacs since I put
(setq mh-comp-formfile "/usr/local/nmh/etc/components")
in .emacs as suggested by the FAQ. Of course, I can direct Emacs
to the right components file, but this does not seem to be flexible
approach for a sysadm. So how do I fix mh-e so that it first
searches for components in ~/MhMail *then* in /usr/local/nmh/etc/
without users putting anything in their .emacs.
4) While compiling, I got the message
make[2]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/nmh-0.21/zotnet/tws'
flex -nt ./dtimep.lex | sed -f ./lexedit.sed > dtimep.c
LEX FAILED: using pre-lexed dtimep.c
Though I did after running configure
(
cd zotnet/tws
sed -e 's}^LEX = lex}LEX = flex}' Makefile > Makefile.new
mv Makefile.new Makefile
)
as it was advised somewhere (in configure?).
Does this have serious consequences somewhere?
5) When I did my first inc I got
inc: BUG: calling folder_realloc with lo > mp->lowmsg
but this message never appeared again.
6) I now try to see if nmh works with exmh. Is anything I should set?
7) I am really glad to see somebody is developing/maintaining a mail
system compatible with mh. The mh coming with redhat Linux/GNU has
a serious (and I was told known to the mh team) bug in it: each comp
increases the index of the draft file in the drafts folder. That is:
comp; send -> draft1
comp; send -> draft2
comp; send -> draft3
...
I was up to draft471, and I had no idea what to do!
But with nmh, all is well.
8) In the TODO I read two plans which I would really welcome to be
realized: one is to have Maildir support, the other is to spawn the
editor only for writing the body of the message, but using propmter
to fill out the header.
Thanks again,
Mate
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis