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            "text": "# nmh (man)\n\n## NAME\n\nnmh - new MH message system\n\n## DESCRIPTION\n\nnmh is the name of a powerful message handling system.  Rather than being a single comprehen‐\nsive program, nmh consists of a collection of fairly simple single-purpose programs to  send,\nretrieve, save, and manipulate messages.\n\n## Sections\n\n- **NAME**\n- **DESCRIPTION**\n- **COMMANDS** (10 subsections)\n- **FILES**\n- **SEE ALSO**\n- **BUGS**\n\nUse structuredContent.sections for detailed options, examples, and full documentation.\n"
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                        "name": "Sending",
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                "content": "nmh - new MH message system\n",
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                "content": "nmh is the name of a powerful message handling system.  Rather than being a single comprehen‐\nsive program, nmh consists of a collection of fairly simple single-purpose programs to  send,\nretrieve, save, and manipulate messages.\n\nUnlike  most  mail  clients in Unix, nmh is not a closed system which must be explicitly run,\nthen exited when you wish to return to the shell.  You may freely  intersperse  nmh  commands\nwith  other shell commands, allowing you to read and answer your mail while you have (for ex‐\nample) a compilation running, or search for a file or run programs as needed to find the  an‐\nswer to someone's question before answering their mail.\n\nThe  rest  of  this  manual entry is a quick tutorial which will teach you the basics of nmh.\nYou should read the manual entries for the individual  programs  for  complete  documentation\n(see the section on COMMANDS below).\n\nTo  get started using nmh, put the directory “/usr/bin/mh” in your $PATH.  Run the install-mh\ncommand.  If you've never used nmh before, it will create the necessary default files and di‐\nrectories after asking you if you wish it to do so.\n\ninc  moves mail from your system mail drop into your nmh “+inbox” folder, breaking it up into\nseparate files and converting it to nmh format.  It prints one line for each message it  pro‐\ncesses,  containing  the  from  field, the subject field and as much of the first line of the\nmessage as will fit.  It leaves the first message  it  processes  as  your  current  message.\nYou'll need to run inc each time you wish to incorporate new mail into your nmh file.\n\nscan prints a list of the messages in your current folder.\n\nThe commands show, next, and prev are used to read specific messages from the current folder.\nshow displays the current message, or a specific message specified by  its  number  which  is\npassed as an argument.  next and prev display, respectively, the message numerically after or\nbefore the current message.  In all cases, the message displayed becomes the current message.\nIf  there  is no current message, show may be called with an argument, or next may be used to\nadvance to the first message.\n\nrmm (remove message) deletes the current message.  It may be  called,  with  message  numbers\npassed as arguments, to delete specific messages.\n\nrepl  is  used  to  respond to the current message (by default).  It places you in the editor\nwith a prototype response form.  While you're in the editor, you may peruse the  item  you're\nresponding  to  by reading the file @.  After completing your response, type “l” to list (re‐\nview) it, or “s” to send it.\n\ncomp allows you to compose a message by putting you in the  editor  on  a  prototype  message\nform,  and  then lets you send it via the whatnow command.  whatnow also supports easy-to-use\nmanagement of MIME attachments via its attach and related responses, as described in its  man\npage.\n\nnmh  command arguments are usually called switches.  Some switches have a corresponding “-no”\nswitch, which negates all previous occurrences of that switch on the command line.  This  al‐\nlows  a  user  to  conveniently  override,  on  the  command line, a switch in their profile.\nSwitches may be abbreviated as long as there is no ambiguity with another switch of the  same\ncommand.   To avoid ambiguity with any switches that may be added in the future, it is recom‐\nmended that full switch names be used in durable code such as shell scripts,  functions,  and\naliases.\n\nEach nmh command may be run with the single switch -help, which causes it to print its avail‐\nable switches, along with any profile components that apply, and then exit.\n\nAll the nmh commands may be run with the single switch -version, which causes them  to  print\nthe version number of the nmh distribution, and then exit.\n\nCommands which take a message number as an argument (scan, show, repl, ...)  also take one of\nthe words “first”, “prev”, “cur”, “next”, or “last” to  indicate  (respectively)  the  first,\nprevious,  current,  next, or last message in the current folder (assuming they are defined).\nAs a shorthand, “.” is equivalent to “cur”.\n\nCommands which take a range of message numbers (rmm, scan, show, ...)  also take any  of  the\nabbreviations:\n\n<num1>-<num2>   Indicates  all  messages in the range <num1> to <num2>, inclusive.  The range\nmust be nonempty.\n\nall             Indicates all messages, i.e., first-last.\n\n<num>:+N\n<num>:-N        Up to N, where N must be a positive number, messages beginning with (or  end‐\ning  with)  message  num.   Num  may be any of the pre-defined symbols first,\nprev, cur, next or last.  The + can be omitted.\n\nfirst:N\nprev:N\nnext:N\nlast:N          As many of the first, previous, next, or last  N  messages  that  exist.   As\nabove,  N can be preceded with - to end the listing at the specified message,\nor with an optional +.\n\nCommands that take a folder name (inc, refile, scan, ...) accept the folder name in two  for‐\nmats:   “+folder”  or  “@folder”.   In both cases, “folder” can be a “/”-separated path, e.g.\n“foo/bar”.  “+folder” specifies a directory path to a folder.  If “folder”  starts  with  “/”\nthen  it's  an  absolute  path from the root directory.  If it is “.” or “..”, or starts with\n“./” or “../”, then it's relative to the current working directory.  Otherwise it's  relative\nto  mh-profile(5)'s “Path”, i.e. as given by `mhpath +`.  “@folder” is a shorthand for “+cur‐\nfolder/folder”; it's a relative path from the current folder.  “curfolder” is given  by  `mh‐‐\npath`.  For example, assuming a Path profile component of Mail,\n\nscan +inbox     scans $HOME/Mail/inbox\nscan +work/todo scans $HOME/Mail/work/todo\nscan @todo      scans $HOME/Mail/work/todo, if current folder is +work\nrefile @../done refiles to $HOME/Mail/work/done, if the current folder is +work/todo\nscan +/tmp      scans /tmp\nscan +.         scans the current directory\nrefile @.       refiles current message to end of current folder.\n\nThere  are  many  other possibilities such as creating multiple folders for different topics,\nand automatically refiling messages according to subject, source,  destination,  or  content.\nThese are beyond the scope of this manual entry.\n",
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            "COMMANDS": {
                "content": "Following is a list of all the nmh commands, grouped loosely according to their role.\n",
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                        "name": "Sending",
                        "content": "comp(1)         compose a message\nforw(1)         forward messages\nrepl(1)         reply to a message\nwhatnow(1)      prompting front-end for send\n\nNote  that although whatnow provides much of the primary nmh user interface for sending mail,\nit is almost never invoked manually, but rather is invoked indirectly by  one  of  the  above\ncommands,  after  you've composed a message in your editor, and before you've decided to send\nit.  Here you can add attachments, check the recipient list,  decide  to  quit  and  send  it\nlater, etc.\n\nRelated utilities:\n\nali(1)          list mail aliases\nanno(1)         annotate messages\nwhom(1)         report to whom a message would go\ndist(1)         redistribute a message to additional addresses\n\nAdvanced commands, only sometimes invoked directly:\n\nmhbuild(1)      translate MIME composition draft\nsend(1)         send a message\nsendfiles(1)    send multiple files in a MIME message\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Incorporating",
                        "content": "inc(1)          incorporate new mail\n\nRelated utilities:\n\nburst(1)        explode digests into messages\nmsgchk(1)       check for messages\nrcvdist(1)      asynchronously redistribute new mail\nrcvpack(1)      append message to file\nrcvstore(1)     asynchronously incorporate new mail\nslocal(1)       asynchronously filter and deliver new mail\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Viewing",
                        "content": "next(1)         show the next message\nprev(1)         show the previous message\nshow(1)         show (display) messages\nscan(1)         produce a one line per message scan listing\nfnext(1)        select the next folder with new messages\nfprev(1)        select the previous folder with new messages\n\nRelated utilities, only sometimes invoked directly:\n\nmhl(1)          produce formatted listings of nmh messages\nmhlist(1)       list information about content of MIME messages\nmhn(1)          display/list/store/cache MIME messages\nmhshow(1)       display MIME messages\nmhstore(1)      store contents of MIME messages into files\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Searching",
                        "content": "Within a folder:\n\npick(1)         select messages by content\n\nAcross folders:\n\nnew(1)          list folders with new messages\nunseen(1)       list new messages in a given set of folders\nflist(1)        list folders with messages in given sequence(s)\nflists(1)       list all folders with messages in given sequence(s)\nfolder(1)       set/list current folder/message\nfolders(1)      list all folders\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Organizing",
                        "content": "mark(1)         mark messages\nrefile(1)       file messages in other folders\nrmf(1)          remove folder\nrmm(1)          remove messages\nsortm(1)        sort messages\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Convenience Wrappers",
                        "content": "mhmail(1)       send or read mail\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Utilities",
                        "content": "mhfixmsg(1)     rewrite MIME messages with various transformations\nmhparam(1)      print nmh profile components\nmhpath(1)       print full pathnames of nmh messages and folders\npackf(1)        compress a folder into a single file\nprompter(1)     prompting editor front end\nrcvtty(1)       report new mail\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Indirectly Invoked Commands",
                        "content": "ap(8)           parse addresses RFC 822-style\ndp(8)           parse dates RFC 822-style\nfmtdump(8)      decode mh-format(5) files\ninstall-mh(8)   initialize the nmh environment\npost(8)         deliver a message\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Files Used by nmh Commands",
                        "content": "mh-alias(5)     alias file for nmh message system\nmh-format(5)    format file for nmh message system\nmh-profile(5)   user customization for nmh message system\nmh-tailor(5)    mail transport customization for nmh message system\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Formats",
                        "content": "mh-draft(5)     draft folder facility\nmh-folders(5)   nmh message storage format specification\nmh-mail(5)      message format for nmh message system\nmh-sequence(5)  sequence specification for nmh message system\n"
                    }
                ]
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            "FILES": {
                "content": "/usr/bin/mh\ncontains nmh commands\n\n/etc/nmh\ncontains nmh format files\n\n/usr/lib/mh\ncontains nmh library commands\n\n$HOME/.mhprofile\nThe user's nmh profile\n",
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            "SEE ALSO": {
                "content": "install-mh(1), mh-profile(5), mh-chart(7), mh-mime(7)\n",
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            "BUGS": {
                "content": "Send  bug reports, questions, suggestions, and patches to nmh-workers@nongnu.org.  That mail‐\ning list is relatively quiet, so user questions are encouraged.  Users are also encouraged to\nsubscribe, and view the archives, at https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers .\n\nIf  problems  are encountered with an nmh program, they should be reported to the local main‐\ntainers of nmh, if any, or to the mailing list noted above.  When doing this, the name of the\nprogram should be reported, along with the version information for the program.\n\nTo find out what version of an nmh program is being run, invoke the program with the -version\nswitch.  This prints the version of nmh, the host it was compiled on, and the date  the  pro‐\ngram was linked.\n\nNew   releases,   and   other   information   of   potential   interest,   are  announced  at\nhttp://www.nongnu.org/nmh/\n\n\n\nnmh-1.7.1                                    2016-09-26                                     NMH(7mh)",
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