TITLE {Introduction to MH and TkMH } R {

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BI {TkMH } R {is a windowing front-end to the mailing system } BI {MH. } R {What it does is call the appropriate commands from MH whenever the user presses buttons or so. I will discuss MH shortly, with some of the commands and features used.

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B {About } BI {TkMH } R {
TkMh just gives you an interface to a selection of the } I {MH } R {commands, so you won't have to type them every time. It also gives you a nice interface to the folder tree, so most folders are never more than a few button clicks away. Typing errors and retyping are in the past now ;-).

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B {About } BI {MH } R {
MH, the Message Handling system, is a collection of commands written to handle messages you store in folders in your Mail directory (} V {MH MH(Path)} R {). The mail arrives on your system in a file called } I {Maildrop } R {or } I {Mail spool file } R {(} V {MH MH(MailDrop)} R {), and you need to } I {incorporate } R {that new mail in your } I {inbox } R {folder (} V {MH MH(Inbox)} R {) before you can do anything with it. 
Once incorporated, you can do a lot of things with a message. You can read it using } T {show(1mh), } R {reply to it} T {(repl(1mh)), } R {forward it to someone else } T {(forw(1mh)), } R {delete it and copy or move it to another folder.
} BI {MH } R {also allows you the use of } I {aliases, } R {so you don't have to remember all the addresses from people you frequently mail.
If you never used } BI {MH } R { before, you should configure it by selecting } I {Configure->MH } R {in the Control window before you start experimenting. If you already used it before, you don't need to do anything about that.

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B {About Folders } R {
Folders are arranged under a directory that's normally located in your Home directory. You can have subfolders (nested) under each folder. It's not advisable to nest folders too deeply, because you might lose the oversight then. Each folder, also the ones that have subfolders, can contain messages. In } BI {TkMH } R {folder operations } I {(Move To, Copy To, Open Folder, Rename Folder, Remove Folder) } R {are accessible through pull down menus, that contain new menus for each subfolder. 

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B {About Aliases } R {
An Alias is a short name or mnemonic for somebody's email address. They are stored in a file somewhere in the form:
} T {alias1: ab@foo.bar
alias2: alias1
alias3: (John Doe) jd@foo.bar 
alias4: tgtcmv@chem.tue.nl (Martien Verbruggen)

} R {You can set the name of the file with } I {Configure->MH } R {in the Control window. } BI {TkMH } R {reads this file, and extracts all the aliases of this simple form. Aliases that have a more complex form, will not be configurable from the } I {Configuration->Aliases } R {menu, but will be parsed directly by } BI {MH.}