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diff --git a/mail/exmh2/pkg-descr b/mail/exmh2/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..df8a9c548701 --- /dev/null +++ b/mail/exmh2/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +exmh version: 1.6.7 +Brent.Welch@eng.sun.com + +exmh is a TCL/TK based interface to the MH mail system. + +Version 1.6* is compatible with Tk 4.1, Tk4.0, Tk3.6, and Tk3.3 + Some features (e.g., color face icons) only work with Tk 4.0 or greater. +exmh is known to work with MH versions 6.7 and 6.8.* + +************************************************** +VERY IMPORTANT. PLEASE READ. SOURCE OF MANY PROBLEMS. READ THIS HERE :-) + +exmh depends on the TK send facility for its background processing. +With TK 3.3, send now uses xauthority mechanisms by default, unless +you compile TK with -DTK_NO_SECURITY. A manifestation of problems are +that background processing doesn't work: new messages are not scanned +into the current folder, the flag icon doesn't behave, and so on. +Similarly, use of the exmh-async wrapper script also fails. +If you cannot recompile wish, then the trick is to get your X server process +started with the right incantation. + +Generally, this means that you must run xdm to start your Xserver. +************************************************** + +EXMH lives "high in the food chain". You'll need some additional softare: +************************************************** +REQUIRED PACKAGES +Find TCL and TK on + ftp.sunlabs.com:/pub/tcl + ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/tcl + ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:/ucb/tcl +Find MH on + ftp.ics.uci.edu:/pub/mh +Find Metamail (for MIME support, including 8-bit charsets) on + ftp.bellcore.com:/pub/nsb +**************************************************** +OPTIONAL PACKAGES +Find Faces on + cs.indiana.edu:/pub/faces +Expect is available as + pub/expect/expect.tar.Z from ftp.cme.nist.gov +Japanization patch for Tcl and Tk + srawgw.sra.co.jp:/pub/lang/tcl/jp + tcl7.3jp-patch.gz, tcl7.3jp-update1.gz, tcl7.3jp-update2.gz, + tk3.6jp-patch.gz, tk3.6jp-update1.gz, tk3.6jp-update2.gz. + It seems that they will move the archives to ftp.sra.co.jp near future. +Find Glimpse, the full text search engine, at University of Arizona: + http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu:1994/ +**************************************************** + +FEATURES + +As well as providing the usual layer on top of MH commands, exmh +has a number of other features: + + MIME support! Displays richtext and enriched directly. Parses + multipart messages. A popup menu under the right button can invoke + external viewers (metamail) for things not directly supported. + Built-in editor allows simple composition of text/enriched format + and multipart messages (via Insert Part). + + Color feedback in the scan listing so you can easily identify + unseen messages (blue), the current message (red), deleted + messages (gray background), and moved messages (yellow background). + Xresources control these color choices. + + Monochrome displays highlight unseen messages with underline, + current message in reverse video, deleted messages with cross-hatching + background, and moved messages with stippled background. + + A folder display with one label per folder. Color highlights + indicate the current folder (red), folders with unseen messages + in them (blue), and the target folder for moves (yellow background). + Nested folders are highlighted by a shadow box. A cache of + recently visted folder buttons is also maintained. Monochrome + highlights are reverse video for the current folder, bold box + for folders with unseen messages, and stippled box for the + target of move operations. + + Clever scan caching. MH users know that scan is slow, so + exmh tries hard to cache the current state of the folder to + avoid scanning. Moves and deletes within exmh do not + invalidate the cache, and background incs that add new messages + are handled by merging them into the scan listing. The + scan cache is compatible with xmh. + + Facesaver bitmap display. If you have a facesaver database + on your system, exmh displays the bitmap face of the person + that sent the current message (or their organization). + Otherwise, it just displays a boring EXMH logo. + + Background inc. You can set exmh to run inc periodically, + or just to periodically count up the messages in your mail spool file. + (Depends on proper TK send functioning. See notes below.) + + Various inc styles. Exmh knows about three styles of inc usage: + Inc from your spool file to your inbox folder. + Inc from your spool file or POP host to a set of dropboxes as specified + by your ~/.xmhcheck file. + Inc from your spool file directly into folders. Exmh can run the MH + filtering program (slocal) for you, or you can let an external agent + presort mail into folders for you. + + Searching over folder listing and message body. + + A dialog-box interface to MH pick. + + A simple editor with emacs-like bindings is provided by default. + It has an interface that lets you tweak key bindings. + + Editor interface. You can hook up exmh to TCL based-editors + like mxedit quite easily. A script is also provided, exmh-async, + for using terminal based editors like vi. The emacsclient.README + file has hand-wavy instructions for using emacsclient to talk + to an emacs server. + + Glimpse interface. You can index all your mail with glimpse + and search for messages by content. The search works across + all folders and runs quite fast. The indexes are only about 10% + of the space of your mail database. + + User preferences. You can tune exmh through a dialog box. The settings + are saved in an Xresource-style file named .exmh-defaults. You can + also put font and color resource specifications in this file, plus + there are a few random parameters not exposed via preferences. + + User hacking support. A user library of TCL routines is supported. + The main implementation is chopped up into many smallish modules. + So, you can modify a copy of some module to put your favorite mail + reader hack in without affecting others (or convincing me to put + it into the main line). There are also a number of places where + hook procedures are used so you can refine the behavior of things + like composing a reply message. Details in the man page. + |