[Info-vax] How to Avoid Old Software, Old Bugs?

[Roy Omond]

On 15/11/2019 15:31, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <qqmdbk$vo$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>> <VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>>> In article <qqkj75$1lei$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
>>>>
>>>> No.  Functionality.  Consider the command
>>>> DIR/SIN=<date>/BEF=<date>/FROM=<sender>/SUB=<subject> to select such
>>>> messages.  Can Thunderbird do that?
>>>
>>> I read most mulipart messages on Linux these days.  Mail comes into my VMS
>>> system and Ihave it setup to allow me to read the mail on VMS, Linux or my
>>> Mac.  However, when I need to search for a message, as you've noted, there
>>> is nothing like the VMS mail interface to do so.
>>
>> MH allows this sort of searching as well, and MH is (or at least once was)
>> available for both Linux and VMS.
>>
>> I am personally not an MH fan but I understand why some people like it.
> 
> Can't tell if I'd be a fan or not.  MH?  Mental Health?  methylhydrazine?
> Metal Hydride or Metal Halide?  MegaHenry? Manufactured Home?  McGraw-Hill?
> 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System

"The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It 
is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead 
of a single program, it is made from several different programs which 
are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on 
Unix-like operating systems. Another difference is that rather than 
storing multiple messages in a single file, messages each have their own 
separate file in a special directory. Taken together, these design 
choices mean that it is very easy and natural to script actions on mail 
messages using the normal shell scripting tools.

A descendant of MH continues to be developed under the name of nmh."