This page is maintained by Tobias Nijweide.
I recently started using nmh/exmh, and the most-missed feature was the ability that have separate mh-format files for each folder or set of folders. A diff against nmh cvs sources of 17 october 2000 is available.
There is one controversial change in this patch. When comp is started
with only a folder, and not a message like comp +mh/nmh-workers
, it will now reference a component file as its template, and not
the current message from that folder.
This change could cause some users some pain, but I still think it's better to include it. Without it it is very difficult to have comp find a per-folder components file reliably. I don't know how many people would run comp with a +folder argument, and without a msg argument (this is different from the draftfolder argument!). If the needs of these users override those of this patch, I'll rework it.
I'm currently working on a patch to get true mh-format functionality in comp. The components file is just a set of flat-text headers that is used as a template. I'd like to be able to do standard mh-format things like putting in an automatic Fcc: header. Comp won't be able to get information from an existing mail though, for obvious reasons. The patch is working, it mostly needs documenting.
This patch also adds an -fcc commandline option to comp. The patch is not yet available for download
This will add a -userflag key=value options to comp,
repl, forw and friends. This will set a key that can then be used
in an mh-format file.