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From: ttl@europa.sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen)
Subject: Re: Frequently asked questions about MIME
Reply-To: ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen)
Organization: Stream Technologies Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 19:21:53 GMT

In article <1glu4rINNe3g@nigel.msen.com> emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:

    [stuff from first draft of c.m.m FAQ removed]

>2.4 MIME-relevant RFCs and other standards
>
>Older pre-MIME efforts at internet multimedia e-mail
>
>1197  Using ODA for translating multimedia information. Sherman, M.  1990 
>      December; 2 p. (Format: TXT=3620 bytes)
>807   Multimedia mail meeting notes. Postel, J.B.  1982 February 9; 6 p. 
>      (Format: TXT=11633 bytes)


767    A Structured Format For Transmission of Multi-Media Documents, 
       Postel, J.B.

Timo

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Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
From: dlacey@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (David L Lacey)
Subject: Re: MIME on NeXT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:18:30 GMT

From article <MS-C.724740009.377401575.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>, by mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin):
> My MailManager application on the NeXT has supported MIME (and IMAP, and
> various mailbox formats) for quite some time.  It's on ftp.cac.washington.edu
> in the mail/ directory.

  I've been working on a MIME object for the NeXT.  My use for it is to
have MIME type files in the NeXT gopher client.  However, I've also used it
to make a MIME file editor and it could be used for a mail app.
My version looks essentially like a NeXTmail body - allows fonts, imbedded
images, etc.  I need to do some more work, but I will be releasing it
in source form, so someone could write a mail app using it.
  I also recently got funding from Apple to port this to the Mac, so I'll
have a Gopher client for the Mac that's capable of reading MIME type files
as well.  The guy helping me write this may do a mail app for the Mac if
he has time.  This probably won't be available in source tho.

 - dave
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From: mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us (Marshall Rose)
Subject: Re: MH 6.8 sendmail/smtp uses "ONEX"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Mime-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Reply-To: mh-users@ics.uci.edu
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:03:14 GMT

Look around in the internet-drafts/ area on nnsc.nsf.net

/mtr
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: Differences invoking sendmail or using socket (localhost,SMTP)
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:24:57 GMT

In article <2B30CAD2.24855@ics.uci.edu> jromine@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu (John Romine) writes:
>mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) writes:
>>I'm reticent to configure N outlying workstations to use SMTP directly
>>to our single mail hub, since I don't want to ...  lose mail if the
>>hub is busy, hung, or dead.
>
>You can give a list of MTAs to contact in the "servers:" line of the
>MH mtstailor file.  For better fault-tolerance, you could list some
>servers which belong to another department or organization.  I have

This [the use of other departments or organizations] doesn't work if
local users send local mail without hostnames on the recipient address.
The address will be interpreted as in the domain of the server contacted
instead of the sending domain.

>>My understanding is that mail can be dropped if the hub is not accepting
>>SMTP for a time, and the system from which mail is being sent cannot
>>maintain the background process (due to crash, reboot, ...
>
>In this case, when you "send", MH will say that no servers are available.

When sendmail is "not accepting connections" due to load average, the
connection is actually made by the daemon but no accept() is executed.
The sender sees this as a connection which is completed but then times
out.  I've seen post sitting in a sleep/retry loop for an extended period
when this happens.  Of course perhaps it was really doing the retry in
an attempt to send a message saying that no server was available :-( .

>If you have a group of diskless workstations and one file server, it's
>pretty obvious that running an MTA only on the file server (and letting
>the clients post mail with SMTP) is the way to go.  The workstations
>won't be doing much if the file server is down; they don't need an MTA.

Except you need sendmail on the clients anyway, since not all mail uses
MH.  I haven't tried the recently announced release yet, but the
pseudo-sendmail in the MH package is useless for this purpose on 6.7.2.
It rejects messages that a normal sendmail would accept.
From: markc@vnet.ibm.com (Mark Connell)
Cc: Tero.Siili@fmi.fi
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: xmh/automatic inc'ing
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 09:03:52 +1000


Add the following to your Xmh resources:

Xmh*CommandButtonCount:                 1
Xmh*commandBox.button1.label:           Inc
Xmh*commandBox.button1.translations:    #override\n\
        <Btn1Down>,<Btn1Up>: XmhOpenFolder(inbox)XmhIncorporateNewMail()unset()

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From: ellozy@farber.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy)
Subject: Some questions on MH, Xmh and X.500
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Date: 16 Dec 92 04:19:38 GMT
X-Phone: 617-732-3034, 617-632-3425
X-Organization: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

A new version of MH, with MIME support, was announced recently.  I
have a couple of questions:

1.  What is the relation between MH and Xmh releases?  Does this mean
that there is a MIME capable Xmh, or that one will soon become
available?  Who "owns" Xmh?

2.  What is the status of X.500 support (ISODE) for MH/Xmh?

My real question is:  Is there a version of Xmh with both MIME and
X.500 support?

Thanks.

Mohamed
From: jromine@binky.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Subject: Re: POP service replication
Summary: check out IMAP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Reply-To: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:49:29 GMT

mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) writes:
>Can one have more than one host in the "localname:" and "pophost:" fields?

No.  "localname" should reflect the name you want to appear in
your "From:" header.  Basically, it overrides the local hostname
value retrieved from the OS (via gethostname() or uname(), etc.).

"pophost" should reflect your POP service host.  Often, you want
to make "localname" the same as "pophost" so that outgoing mail
appears to have originated on the POP service host.  This was more
important in the days before nameservers (and MX RRs) were widely used.

>More generally, has anyone successfully distributed their Electronic
>Post Office for a given group of people?

I have not.  I have only one central mail spool for those users.
POP isn't really well-suited to this problem (it solves a different,
smaller problem).  There are other research efforts in this direction,
however.  Check out the work on IMAP for example.
--
John Romine
From: glass@postgres.berkeley.edu (Adam Glass)
Subject: Re: MH 6.8 sendmail/smtp uses "ONEX"
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
X-Mts: smtp
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:19:56 GMT


Marshall,

Can you point me to a rfc, or draft rfc, or some document which
describes these smtp extensions?

later,
Adam Glass

Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.mail.sendmail
From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
Subject: Re: MH 6.8 sendmail/smtp uses "ONEX" (w. fix for IDA sendmail)
Reply-To: Paul-Pomes@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:36:30 GMT

mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us (Marshall Rose) writes:

>ONEX is a command that sendmail has which, assuming there will be only
>one transaction on this SMTP connection,  allows it to avoid an extra
>fork.

One problem I found during the beta-test period involved mailing to blind
recipients with the IDA sendmail.  An example follows:

uxc-paul home 610$ comp
To: paul@ux1
Cc: 
Bcc: paul@uxh
Fcc: 
Organization: Univ of Illinois, Computing Services Office
Subject: d
--------
^D--------

What now? send -snoop -verbose
<= 220 uxc.cso.uiuc.edu 5.67a8/IDA-1.5 Sendmail is ready at Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:21:28 -0600
=> ONEX
<= 200 Only one transaction
=> MAIL FROM:<paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>		sets sender address
<= 250 <paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>... Sender ok
 -- Address Verification --
  -- Network Recipients --
  paul at ux1: => RCPT TO:<paul@ux1>
<= 250 <paul@ux1>... Recipient ok
address ok
  paul at uxh: => RCPT TO:<paul@uxh>
<= 250 <paul@uxh>... Recipient ok
address ok
 -- Address Verification Successful --
=> RSET
<= 250 Reset state
 -- Posting for Sighted Recipients --
=> MAIL FROM:<paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>		sendmail complains about
						previous MAIL command
<= 250 <paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>... Sender ok
  -- Network Recipients --
  paul at ux1: => RCPT TO:<paul@ux1>
<= 250 <paul@ux1>... Recipient ok
address ok
=> DATA
<= 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
=> .
<= 250 Ok
=> RSET

Because ONEX prevents sendmail from fork()ing, the normal cleanup performed
by a RSET command doesn't occur.  That is, sendmail exits the child and
re-fork()s when it sees a MAIL command.  Some extra code needs to be inserted
in the srvrsmtp.c file to handle RSET when ONEX has been given.  A diff
follows.  The sfgetsinit() call may not be present in the 5.65c release
and my be safely deleted if so.

/pbp
====
*** 5.31.0.2	1992/10/29 00:36:57
--- srvrsmtp.c	1992/12/18 04:32:57
***************
*** 430,435 ****
--- 430,443 ----
  
  		  case CMDRSET:		/* rset -- reset state */
  			message("250", "Reset state");
+ 			if (OneXact)
+ 			{
+ 				hasmail = FALSE;
+ 				dropenvelope(CurEnv);
+ 				CurEnv = newenvelope(CurEnv);
+ 				CurEnv->e_flags = BlankEnvelope.e_flags;
+ 				sfgetsinit();
+ 			}
  			if (InChild)
  				finis();
  			break;
-- 
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	--William Pitt (1783)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.mail.sendmail
From: zchi@athena.mit.edu (Zhihang Chi)
Subject: mtstailor
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:28:25 GMT

Hi,

I wonder if it is possible to direct "post" to read a different
mtstailor file than the system one?  Thanks.

--Zhihang Chi
  zchi@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 1992 09:01:33 +01
From: jhdaa04@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Philippe Geyskens)
Subject: reply format in MH/AIX370
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]



--

L.S.

Wanting to integrate the original message in my reply, I browsed
through the FAQ and basicly found the solution. I copied the
suggested filter format to my own reply.format file and... did
not get the expected result. Only wrapped lines were starting with
a ">", the main body is integrated in the messagege, but without the
requested ">" (I suppose the request comes from 'body:components=">"')
I am running MH on AIX/370. Here is the format.file

  overflowtext="",overflowoffset=0
  date:component="Reply to your message dated",formatfield=\
  "%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(pretty{text})%>"
  body:component=">",overflowtext=">",overflowoffset=0

Any clues on what goes wrong?



Philippe Geyskens

Department of Civil Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
EMail: jhdaa04@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be               TeleFax: +32 16 22 52 31
From: avolio@TIS.COM (Frederick M Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: .maildelivery
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:15:05 GMT
Reply-To: avolio@TIS.COM
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.


Here's a file with comments added by me in this posting (in other
words, they are NOT part of the file).

to compet_news destroy ? -
	anything addressed to compet_news* gets tossed w/o saving
from lenny destroy ? -
	anything from lenny* gets tossed also
to lenny destroy ? -
	ditto for anyting to lenny*  Notice, the ? says "go on if this
	fails, otherwise stop."
to   partners | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +vacation/partners"
to   base_sig | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +vacation/partners"
cc   partners | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +vacation/partners"
cc   base_sig | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +vacation/partners"
	File anyting to or cc partners or base_sig (any hostname) into
	folder  +vacation/partners.  Notice the ? again.  Stop if
	successful. 
from mailer-daemon | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +vacation/daemon"
from postmaster | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +vacation/daemon"
from root | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +vacation/daemon"
default - > ? /usr/spool/mail/avolio


You get the picture.

Fred
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: jrh@jrh.uucp (James R. Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Converting UUCP-style mbox to MH mail folders
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:42:21 GMT
Organization: private system, Toronto, Ontario

In article <1992Dec17.192303.8226@netnews.alf.dec.com> jlf@ryhope.alf.dec.com (Jeff Finkelstein) writes:
>
>Is there a scriptfile around to convert a UUCP-style mbox to the MH
>style folders?

    Use "inc -file mbox +junk" to incorporate all mail from mbox into the MH
    folder +junk.

                      --jrh
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From: jromine@binky.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Subject: comp.mail.mh/mh-users gateway
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 15 Dec 92 21:54:07 GMT

The bi-directional gateway between the USENET group comp.mail.mh
and the MH-Users mailing list has moved from ucbvax.berkeley.edu to
ics.uci.edu.  Please send any problem reports regarding the gateway
to mh-users-request@ics.uci.edu.

Thanks!
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.sys.sgi
From: mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us (Marshall Rose)
Subject: Re: MH 6.8 sendmail/smtp uses "ONEX"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Mime-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Reply-To: mh-users@ics.uci.edu
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:02:55 GMT

ONEX is a command that sendmail has which, assuming there will be only
one transaction on this SMTP connection,  allows it to avoid an extra
fork.  The next release of MH will probably use the mechanisms in the
SMTP extensions to determine whether things like ONEX should be used.

/mtr
From: geirp@bombur.uio.no (Geir Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: xmh: Loosing outgoing mail
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:02:40 GMT
Organization: Center for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo,
	Norway


A large percentage of the messages I am sending out through xmh never
reaches their destination. I am trying to convert to using xmh from
using a diffrent (non mh-based) mail system. To try to track the
problem down I edited the xmh binary to remove the "-push" flag used
by xmh on the send-command. I then get this dialog whenever I send a
message:

post command returned:

post: no addressees
send: message not delivered to anyone

During the tests I have been performing, all the messages have however
been delivered. (All have been for the same address.) Should I ignore
this message? 

Is there a way to make the mh commands log to a (preferably) common
file?

Thanks,

Geir Pedersen.
From: martin@datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: .maildelivery
Date: 18 Dec 92 14:25:55 GMT
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK


I want to thank all who responded.  As it turns out, the solution was very
close to the FAQ example.  The line I ended up using to auto-inc all 
unselected mail into Mail/inbox is:

default  - | ? /usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore +inbox -create

Thanks to vasoll@a.cs.okstate.edu and gary@isis.cgd.ucar.EDU for getting me
on the right track.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ   Stillwater, OK
O.S.U. Computer Center Data Communications Group
From: avolio@TIS.COM (Frederick M Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Converting UUCP-style mbox to MH mail folders
Date: 17 Dec 92 23:09:46 GMT
Reply-To: avolio@TIS.COM
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.


The inc program does exactly that.  By mbox you mean what ucb/mail
creates?  See the inc man page (inc -file mbox).

Fred
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: kbennion@dsd.es.com (Karl Bennion)
Subject: Problem with MH mailing to slocal
Keywords: slocal nis address send alias forward
Reply-To: kbennion@dsd.es.com (Karl Bennion)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 17:08:43 GMT

We have brought several new workstations online with yellow pages and have nfs
mounted the mh directories, all of which are rooted under /usr/local/ on yp_server system.  When we try to mail to a user whose name is aliased to username@yp_server, mh doesn't find the alias and mails it to username on the local machine.  The user's home directory is on the local machine and has a .forward file that forwards the mail to "| /usr/local/bin/slocal -user username".  On the local machine an error is encountered which says you can't mail directly to a prgram.

Mail error was: 554 <"| /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal -user username">...
        Cannot mail directly to programs

When we login to the yp_server that /usr/local is nfs mounted from which is also the master yp server from which the aliases file is distributed, the mail goes through fine.  I looked at the conf/MH file to see if a directory was used that was not in
the /usr/local tree and the only one was the /usr/spool/mail which is also nfs mounted on the local machine.

I can do a ypcat -k aliases | grep username and see the alias so I know that the machine is getting the aliases.  I can also send regular unix mail and that works fine on the local machine.

yp_server is running MH version 6.7
local_machine is running OS version 4.1.3
yp_server is running OS version 4.1.2

Has anyone encountered this problem before that knows what might be causing it?
Even clues as to what to look at would appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
Subject: Re: Problem with MH address parser
             <1992Dec16.071847.3949@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Date: 16 Dec 92 10:11:21 GMT

> I have been having a problem with the MH address parser.
> Specifically, on some addresses, it gives a bad address when trying to
> reply:
>
> repl: bad addresses:
> 	N. R. "Norm" Lunde <norm> -- no at-sign after local-part (Lunde)
>     testformail
>
> As far as I can tell, this is a valid address per 822 (but it seems a
> little vague for this case) and certainly most mailers can deal with
> it.  This is not the only address (or even style of address--with
> quoted nickname) which gives this problem.

This address IS ILLEGAL! According to RFC822, no dots (and most other
other special characters) are allowed in that part of the address,
unless quoted. The following 2 alternatives are legal:

	"N. R. Norm Lunde" <norm>
	norm (N.R. "Norm" Lunde)

Luckily MH does NOT support the wrong addresses, so it can not be blamed
for sending those addresses into the world.

Hope this explains enough.

--
--    Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl>   (UUCP: ...!{uunet,mcsun,sun4nl}!nlbull!jos)
--    Bull Nederland NV, Product Support Unix, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: hchang@zephyr.hc.ti.com (Helen S. Chang)
Subject: Q: how to set printer command in Xmh?
Organization: Texas Instruments, CSC, Dallas
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:53:05 GMT


A popup window
	--------------------------------------------------
	|  "lpr -Pprintname -h" /home/hchang/Mail/inbox/1|
	|  shell command returned:			 |
	|  /bin/sh: lpr -Pprintername -h: not found	 |
	--------------------------------------------------
when I select the print command from menu.

What should I setup to make it work?

Many thanks.

Helen

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Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: seth@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson)
Subject: Re: Problem with MH address parser
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 09:54:22 GMT
X-Posted-From: sirius.ctr.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

The short form is that it is not a valid address.  The long form,
which follows, was sent to me by Owen Rees.

						 Thanks!
						-Seth

======================================================================
From: Owen Rees <rtor@ansa.co.uk>

Seth Robertson <seth@startide.ctr.columbia.edu> writes:
> repl: bad addresses:
> 	N. R. "Norm" Lunde <norm> -- no at-sign after local-part (Lunde)
>     testformail
> 
> As far as I can tell, this is a valid address per 822

It isn't a valid RFC822 address - 
  see 3.3 Lexical Tokens - N. is the 'word' N followed by 'special' .
  see 6.1 [Address] Syntax - the dots make N.R."Norm" a 'local-part'
      which must be followed by an at sign. The error message is
      telling you what if found instead of an at.
  see 3.1.4 Structured Field Bodies - linear white space is permitted
      between lexical tokens, it (including parenthesized comments)
      just gets stripped out when converting to canonical form.

RFC1123 modifies the rules slightly but not so as to affect the above.