MH 6.8.3 Release Notes
Table of Contents
MH is a command-line oriented
Message Handling package for electronic mail, bulletin
boards, etc.
The authors of this product are: The Rand Coporation and the University of California, Irvine.
MH includes these subsystems:
| fw_mh.sw.mh (default) |
The complete set of executable programs and data files needed to use MH 6.8.3. |
| fw_mh.man.mh (default) |
MH 6.8.3's online manual pages (preformatted). |
| fw_mh.man.relnotes (default) |
MH 6.8.3's online release notes. |
| fw_mh.man.doc |
Preformatted versions of the MH User Guide and the
MH Administrators Guide. |
| fw_mh.src |
The complete MH 6.8.3 software distribution
from which this product was built (including SGI modifications). |
Installation Method
All of the subsystems for MH can be installed using IRIX.
You do not need to use the miniroot.
Refer to the Software Installation Administrator's Guide for
complete installation instructions.
Prerequisites
Your workstation must be running IRIX 5.3 or later in order to use this product.
Configuration Files
The following files are considered private to the target system
and are not overwritten during the installation procedure;
you may want to tailor them to your system's needs.
- /usr/freeware/lib/mh/mtstailor
- The mail transport software configuration definitions.
The default configuration is setup for ``sendmail/smtp'' (use the
sendmail program for mail transport) and should be ok for most
systems.
Consult the MH Administrator's Guide (see below)
if you need to modify this file.
- /usr/freeware/lib/mh/MailAliases
- The system-wide mail aliases recognized by MH programs.
This file typically is not needed; mail aliases can be done
at the transport layer through sendmail(1M).
- /usr/freeware/lib/mh/mhn_defaults
- The default configuration parameters for the mhn program
that is used to handle MIME-encoded mail messages.
Consult mhn(1) for information on the contents of this file.
Preformatted manual pages are installed by default;
consult mh(1) for an introduction.
Preformatted versions of the MH Users Manual and
MH Administrators Guide are located in the directory
/usr/freeware/lib/mh/DOC when the
optional fw_mh.man.doc subsystem is installed.