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| 4699.1 | | HYDRA::SMITH | Tom Smith ZKO1-3/H42 +1 603 881-6329 | Thu May 29 1997 14:15 | 4 |
| The University of Washington IMAP4 server handles Berkeley UNIX, MH,
MMDF, TENEX, and other formats. See http://www.washington.edu/imap/ .
-Tom
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| 4699.2 | IMAP and mh folders | NNTPD::"pderr@zk3.dec.com" | Peter Derr | Thu May 29 1997 17:08 | 20 |
| The UW IMAP server will handle mh folders. You need to specify in your client
the "#mh/" prefix for the mail folders. Also, you need to specify the special
keywork "#MHINBOX" to be used as the inbox.
The only client I've found that allows you to specify both of these correctly
is Pine and PC-Pine (also from U. of Washington). I've tried many other
IMAP clients and no others seem to work quite right with mh folders.
Although Pine works fine, it's user interface is poor and it doesn't handle
nested folders.
If you find a better mail client for the PC that works with the mh folders,
please let me know. I've been hoping that the Netscape Communicator would
work better, but I just tried the latest, PR5, and it's still terrible (Can't
specify the INBOX, gets stuck on the first mail message.)
BTW, the Internet AlphaServer System Software (IASS) V3.2 product includes
the UW IMAP server. IASS is distributed with all UNIX server systems.
Peter
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| 4699.3 | | WOTVAX::16.42.4.61::hattos | I'm back - as a matter of fact | Fri May 30 1997 04:12 | 1 |
| Communicator has had that IMAP behaviour since PR2 to my knowledge.
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| 4699.4 | | CAMPY::ADEY | PC Server...now there's an oxymoron! | Fri May 30 1997 14:57 | 3 |
| Uhhh...what's an 'MH' folder?
Ken....
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| 4699.5 | MH explained | NPSS::GLASER | Steve Glaser DTN 226-7212 LKG1-2/W6 (G17) | Fri May 30 1997 16:14 | 17 |
| MH is a mail reader for Unix boxes. It was written in the late
70s/early 80s at Rand under govt contract and is freely available.
It comes as an optional part of Digital Unix for instance.
MH messages are stored in a collection of directories someplace under
your home directory. Each directory is a "folder". Individual mail
messages are stored as plain-text files in the directory. File names
within a folder a small integers, assigned sequentially. Folders can
contain folders. There is a "cursor" in each folder that points to the
current message.
Message reading commands are Unix commands (e.g. inc, post, comp,
refile, rmm). There's also an X-windows reader that uses the same
structure (known as xmh). DEC had a decwindows version of xmh called
dxmail (I think -- it's been a while).
Steveg
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| 4699.6 | | HYDRA::SMITH | Tom Smith ZKO1-3/H42 +1 603 881-6329 | Fri May 30 1997 17:13 | 12 |
| dxmail is based on MH and is Digital's UNIX/DECwindows mail client up
through Digital UNIX V3.2last. As of V4.0, dtmail is added. At some
future time dxmail is supposed to be removed.
The main advantage of the MH mailbox format over the Berkeley UNIX
mailbox format (which is used by /bin/mail, dtmail, Netscape, Eudora,
and many others) is that Berkeley mail folders are easily corrupted.
Each Berkeley folder is a single text file containing all the messages
in the folder, whereas, as Steve described in .5, each MH folder is a
directory containing one file per message.
-Tom
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| 4699.7 | MH is declining in Digital UNIX | PARZVL::ogodhcp-124-40-168.ogo.dec.com::kennedy | nuncam non paratus | Fri May 30 1997 17:37 | 10 |
| > dxmail is based on MH and is Digital's UNIX/DECwindows mail client up
> through Digital UNIX V3.2last. As of V4.0, dtmail is added. At some
> future time dxmail is supposed to be removed.
just for the record, dtmail does not use the MH mail folders, but
reverts (regresses IMHO) to the Berkeley mail folders. As someone
who switches between the X and command shell interfaces, I was very
disappointed in this, since the mailx command line interface is
just a bit too obscure for my tastes - I found the mh commands much
friendlier.
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| 4699.8 | make legacy files (mails) into services via IMAP | TEMPER::"Noriaki.Kobayashi@tko.dec.com" | Noriaki.Kobaykoba@tko.dec.com | Sun Jun 01 1997 07:35 | 14 |
| Re: .1,.2
I can make a service for MH folders via IMAP4
(using WU imap-4.1.BETA.tar.Z) successfully.
Now, I learned that there is mail folder's namespace problem (.2) also.
If I find IMAP client work with namespace like this (not only remote 'INBOX'), I'll post here.
Thank you
_koba
p.s. I wrote a feedback for Netscape Messager PR5 about this.
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| 4699.9 | Mulberry 1.2 | TEMPER::"Noriaki.Kobayashi@tko.dec.com" | Noriaki.Kobayashi@tko.dec.com | Tue Jun 03 1997 22:12 | 11 |
| >If you find a better mail client for the PC that works with the mh folders,
>please let me know.
Mulberry 1.2 for MacOS and W95/WNT
( http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/mulbinfo.html )
works with '#mh/foobarbaz' or '#MHINBOX' folder names.
# 1.2's reliability seems to not so good yet on PC (good on Mac).
# It doesn't support ISO-2022-JP(and eucJP/ShiftJIS) codeset
# which is essential for me...
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