NOTE: While MH will continue to work on older existing platforms, it will not be available or supported on the new Fedora Core 3 and Solaris 10 platforms.

The MH mail reader

MH (originally the Rand Message Handling system) is a command-line mail reader for Unix systems. Following the Unix "philosophy", it offers a set of single-purpose programs for sending, reading, saving, and manipulating e-mail. MH understands KPOP, and provides a secure way to authenticate to one's mail server. It is available on every Facilitized Unix/Linux host. See the MH manual for information on using MH.

Configuring MH to use KPOP

To configure MH to use KPOP, place a line like the following in one's .mh_profile (this file should be located in the home directory of the machine you are reading your mail from):

inc: -host name.of.maildrop.host

For example:

inc: -host ux14.sp.cs.cmu.edu