After using nmh for over 20 years, I stumbled across the following web site:
https://rand-mh.sourceforge.io/book/ I wouldn't have continued to use nmh all these years if I was constantly skinning my knees on it but sometimes, all you need to do is get out of one's comfort zone to discover how little one really knows and this document should explain enough for me to better figure out how to get best use out of the good tools at hand. Before I retired, our organization went through half a dozen mail systems such as Lotus Notes and Profs with Outlook Exchange being our most recent environment and I always insisted on using nmh. Part of my job dealt with unix automation so I kept nmh along with sendmail on BSD systems or exim4 on Linux boxes as it made automating notifications dirt simple. This also has made it possible to keep archives of messages through all those transitions and the basic ASCII text of nmh messages, even those that are base64 encoded is likely to survive for a long time. I am still working on trying to convince nmh to do what no sane person would be interested in making it do, but I think it is possible. The goal is to have a consistent output that doesn't confuse the program that will grab the nuisance headers and turn them in to more rules for ignores. Thanks for all the help so far and, if there are any more documents like this book, I am all ears. This may take a wile so thanks to all of you who have helped. Martin McCormick -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
