MH (email)

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MH
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developer RAND Corporation
operating system Unix
category Mail user agent
License Public domain
rand-mh.sourceforge.net
nmh
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developer RAND Corporation
Current  version 1.6
(June 15, 2014)
License BSD license
www.nongnu.org/nmh

MH is software for reading and composing e-mails , which consists of several programs for one function each and which manages each e-mail as a separate file .

MH was developed by RAND Corporation in the 1970s . Around 1977 R. Stockton Gaines and Norman Z. Shapiro formulated the main features of the concept. It was realized by Bruce S. Borden at the end of 1978. The software is called MH because Borden couldn't think of any other name than Mail Handler .

The precursor to MH was MS. MS had developed the RAND Corporation for them. However, employees were dissatisfied with this monolithic software because it was slow and difficult to read through.

In 1982, under the direction of Marshall Rose, a five-year metamorphosis of MH began at the University of California, Irvine . The university maintained the software until 2006. The University of California, Berkeley , among others, made major contributions to MH . MH was also ported from Unix to MS-DOS .

MH is now in the public domain and can therefore be incorporated into other software without even being named. A further development takes place under the name nmh , which stands for new MH . Another implementation is in the Mailutils of GNU included, with which, for example MH-E integration into Emacs realized. Sylpheed and Claws Mail use the MH storage format. Mutt supports the MH storage format in addition to mbox and Maildir .

The MH storage format enables subfolders to be nested at any depth and grouping of contained files for structuring.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b rand-mh.sourceforge.net . (accessed on February 6, 2017).
  2. ↑ / nmh / NEWS . Free Software Foundation . Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ Jerry Peek: History of MH . In: MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers . Free Software Foundation. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
  4. ^ Robert H. Anderson, Norman Z. Shapiro, Tora K. Bikson, Phyllis H. Kantar: The Design of the MH Mail System (PDF; 903 kB) RAND Corporation. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
  5. ^ GNU Mailutils . Sergey Poznyakoff. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
  6. ↑ Sylpheed . Hiroyuki Yamamoto. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
  7. ^ Claws Mail . Colin Leroy. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
  8. ↑ The Mutt Email Client . Michael Elkins. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
  9. ↑ mailbox . Python Software Foundation. Retrieved June 7, 2011.