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1.1       root        1: From: Thomas Scott Christiansen <[email protected]>
                      2: 
                      3: I noticed that in the mh.6 tar file on huey, you have some things on using
                      4: MH for netnews.  I thought you would like the whole kit, so here it is:
                      5: 
                      6: ===========================================================================
                      7:                     Using MH on Netnews and System MSGS
                      8: 
                      9: First look at all the directories in /usr/spool/news.  Then, assuming
                     10: that your MH directory is ~/Mail, do something like the following:
                     11: 
                     12:        % ln -s /usr/spool/news/{net,fa,mod} ~/Mail
                     13: 
                     14: You may now reference read-only folders named (for example +net/jokes
                     15: and +mod/unix.   
                     16:        
                     17: Linking /usr/msgs will allow you to read msgs in a similar manner, 
                     18: but that you should have your system administrator make /usr/msgs
                     19: perms 775 and the msgs program setgid the group on the msgs dir.
                     20: Usually the perms are 777, which means this wouldn't be a read-only
                     21: folder.
                     22: 
                     23:                                   WARNINGS
                     24: 
                     25: If your version of MH has a limit on message numbers (as in max 2000
                     26: msgs) then you will not be able to read folders with highest message
                     27: numbers higher than this without modifying the MH source code.
                     28: 
                     29: Refiling causes copies to be made of messages, rather than actually moving
                     30: them, since these are read-only folders.
                     31: 
                     32: 
                     33:                       Doing followups to news articles
                     34: 
                     35: In order to do followups to news articles, you should get your
                     36: local mail administrator to do the following things on your
                     37: system.  It all assumes that you have used /usr/local/lib/mh 
                     38: as your MH lib directory.   
                     39: 
                     40: 
                     41: First create an alias like this:
                     42: 
                     43:        followup:        "|/usr/local/lib/mh/followup"
                     44: 
                     45: This file should look like this and be executable:
                     46: 
                     47:        #!/bin/sh
                     48:        sed -f /usr/local/lib/mh/followup.sed | /usr/lib/news/inews -h
                     49: 
                     50: The sed script should look like this:
                     51: 
                     52:        1,/^$/{
                     53:        /^From /d
                     54:        /^To:/d
                     55:        /^Received:/d
                     56:        /^Message-Id:/d
                     57:        /^Date:/d
                     58:        }
                     59: 
                     60: 
                     61: Then create a link to repl called flup, and add the following line
                     62: to your mh_profile:
                     63: 
                     64:        flup:   -nocc all -form flupcomps
                     65: 
                     66: where flupcomps is the following  file (located in ~/Mail)
                     67: 
                     68:        To: followup
                     69:        Subject: Re: %<{subject}%subject%|Orphaned response%>
                     70:        %<{followup-to}Newsgroups: %followup-to%|%<{newsgroups}Newgroups: %newsgroups%>%>
                     71:        %<{message-id}References: %message-id%<{references} %references%>%>
                     72:        %<{distribution}Distribution: %distribution%>
                     73:        Followup-to:
                     74:        Fcc: +posted
                     75:        --------

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