On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 9:59 PM Tim Lee wrote:
> > I assume you want to keep the email from each account separate?
>
> Yes, that is correct.
>
> > I've been an MH user going on 33yrs.
>
> I'm curious: what did people commonly use for reading mail when MH was
> just invented? Was it the Unix
> I assume you want to keep the email from each account separate?
Yes, that is correct.
> I've been an MH user going on 33yrs.
I'm curious: what did people commonly use for reading mail when MH was
just invented? Was it the Unix "mail" program?
> Start with the realization the nmh is *not* a
> The other advice probably covers the simplest routes. It is possible to
> mix and match though: the two points I hacked to get it working are:
>
> - For sending, you just need to create a custom components file
> (template blank email message with an appropriately-set From: and
> (if
> The answer to most "can I do this with nmh?" questions is usually "yes!".
> With the exception of IMAP, sadly. But the flip side is ... you usually
> have to write that bit. And we're not so great on documentation, and the
> book you mention was written quite a while ago when dealing with
>I manage 3 email accounts: my computer's mail inbox (/var/mail/me), a
>work email account (w...@example.org) and a personal email account
>(m...@example.net). Can I use nmh to manage all three accounts?
The answer to most "can I do this with nmh?" questions is usually "yes!".
With the exception
The other advice probably covers the simplest routes. It is possible to
mix and match though: the two points I hacked to get it working are:
- For sending, you just need to create a custom components file
(template blank email message with an appropriately-set From: and
(if you want to
On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 13:04:43 +0800, Tim Lee wrote:
> I manage 3 email accounts: my computer's mail inbox (/var/mail/me), a
> work email account (w...@example.org) and a personal email account
> (m...@example.net). Can I use nmh to manage all three accounts?
Yes.
> I am new to nmh, and I am
Hi Tim,
> I manage 3 email accounts: my computer's mail inbox (/var/mail/me), a
> work email account (w...@example.org) and a personal email account
> (m...@example.net). Can I use nmh to manage all three accounts?
Can you tell us how you'd like to use your three accounts? Sit in a
single
Many years ago (when nmh was mh and back before MIME was a thing and
attachments were rare, so command line stuff was able to do 100% of my
email handling) I simply had two accounts on my UNIX system. One for me and
one for my alternate ID. There was some extra work involved keeping things
I manage 3 email accounts: my computer's mail inbox (/var/mail/me), a
work email account (w...@example.org) and a personal email account
(m...@example.net). Can I use nmh to manage all three accounts?
I am new to nmh, and I am asking this because I noticed that the entire
book "MH & xmh: Email
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