The following mhl.format file works fine for only message 31 and no other messages downloaded. It is located in /home/jude/Mail and was first copied from /etc/nmh in order to have a correct first version. Once done I did two edits on /home/jude/Mail/mhl.format.
; mhl.format ; ; default message filter for `show' ; : overflowtext="***",overflowoffset=5 leftadjust,compwidth=9 Date:formatfield="%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(pretty{text})%>" To: cc: From:decode Subject:decode body:nocomponent,overflowtext=,overflowoffset=0,noleftadjust -- -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers