exmh

exmh is an extensible user interface for the MH email system [1]. The interface is built with Tcl/Tk [2] and the whole thing is specific to Unix systems because MH hasn't been ported to Windows (yet). exmh is distributed with most Linux systems. Here are the main links:

• http://www.beedub.com/exmh for online docs and pointers to the software
• ftp://www.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/exmh for the FTP distributions
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/exmh for the CVS repository
• http://www.exmh.org home page for the sourceforge project, includes links to the mailing lists and mailing list archives
• http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ for the (new) MH mail software
• http://www.tcl.tk for all things Tcl/Tk
• http://www.beedub.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/exmh (this wiki)

Here is a good user quote that describes why folks like it.

"MH and its flexibility are the primary reason I chose exmh, and is the primary reason I remain with exmh. More simply, I started out choosing MH and then went looking a front-end, starting with MH-E, and xmh. Why exmh rather than one of the other front ends? Exmh is as flexible and extensible as MH is, without also carrying or enforcing a particular model or mindset. There was and is no competition. I value flexibility and configurability far more than I do cute graphics or widget sets." J C Lawrence

How To ... ([empty pages] invite your contribution)

• Filter Mail exmh specializes in the ability of keep track of unread mail in lots of different folders.
• Filter out spam A page of spam-specific filtering solutions
• Extend exmh by defining new buttons, menus, and loading your own code
• Integrate exmh with your other applications
• Compose Mail with Emacs from exmh. By using gnuclient you can easily hook exmh to emacs.
• View MS-Word documents in email using wvWare and your browser
• Manage exmh notes about distributions, source forge, etc.
• Codepages and charactersets How to get better display and handling of oddities in national or proprietary codepages.
• Folder ordering How to order the display of folders
• Folder display How to customise the folder table-of-contents listing
• Converting .maildelivery rules to .procmailrc
• Using Gbuffy with exmh Gbuffy is a biff-like tool.
• Indexing Mail keeping your mail indexed and general periodic hygiene
• LDAP and exmh so you can search for mail addresses from sedit.
• Using Sequences to keep track of unread, important, or otherwise notable messages
• Configuring Xauthority so you can use separate background processes, especially on Windows w/ Exceed.
• Configure exmh for Fedora Core