"Brenda J. Butler" <[email protected]> writes: > Ken, David, Norm, > > On 09/20/2013 02:02 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> writes: >>>> I'd like to switch to using nmh for email handling. I've been using >>>> thunderbird for the last few years. >>> >>> Great! Glad to get a new user! If you don't mind me asking ... how >>> come you decided to switch? We get a lot of people going the other way, >>> so I am curious why you decided to go against the tide. Not that I'm >>> complaining! > > I'm a programmer. I work with plain-text files and plain-text editors > on the command line. I used Thunderbird at my new job (four years ago) > because it was most convenient at the time, but now I want a real mail > client : -) Once I'm familiar with nmh, I will probably move to using > it in emacs.
I am so late to the party that the champagne is long gone and the bottles have been recycled and reused several times over. But if you're already a fan of Emacs, you'll find MH-E to your liking. Try M-x mh-rmail. See http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/, and link to The MH-E Manual in particular. Hope you are still using nmh! >>>> I understand the nmh mail format is a little different from mbox format >>>> or maildir format. Is there any conversion utility out there? I've >>>> searched but only found utilities for people going the other way. >>> >>> So, it's not obvious ... but the "inc" utility does that. It will take >>> a mbox file (or, I belive, a Maildir dropbox if you have a new enough >>> version) and incorporate it into a nmh folder. > > Great! > >>>> Alternatively, a pointer to the documentation of what the nmh format >>>> actually is would be helpful. I haven't found a concise description >>>> yet. >>> >>> The man page mh-mail(5) should describe that. Basically, each message >>> is in it's own file, each folder is a directory. Messages have >>> filenames that are all numbers. Each message is pretty much straight >>> RFC 2822 format, except using Unix newline conventions. Although >>> looking at the man page now, I see that it's a bit out of date; for >>> example, messages nowadays are not limited to 7-bit ASCII in the body. > > Similar to maildir, maybe. I'm a bit less familiar with maildir. > > Would I be able to read the Thunderbird files and write them out as nmh > ones? No point keeping the old format around. > >>>> Also, I need nmh to get email by imap. How can I configure that? Or am >>>> I supposed to use fetchmail for that? >>> >>> _If_ your IMAP server also supports POP, inc can incorporate messages >>>from that. Otherwise, fetchmail is probably the best solution. > > Ok, fetchmail it is. > >> For most purposes, especially to get started, you don't need to know most of >> what's in mh-mail(5). >> >> It might be added that if you are using a Unix like system, such as Linux, >> BSD, >> Macintosh, or Cgywin, then you can operate on nmh messages just as though >> they >> are Unix files -- which indeed they are -- and using Unix commands such mv, >> ls >> and cp. And you can inspect and modify them using your favorite text editor. > > Yep, looking forward to it. > > I'm doing this in my spare time (of which I have negative quantities) so > it will take a while. > > Thanks again for your quick, helpful and friendly reponses. -- Bill Wohler <[email protected]> aka <[email protected]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
