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authorpeter <peter@FreeBSD.org>1996-10-15 19:27:38 +0800
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Missing $Id$ in Makefile, shorten pkg/DESCR.
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-rw-r--r--mail/exmh2/Makefile3
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diff --git a/mail/exmh2/Makefile b/mail/exmh2/Makefile
index 470d5cea2671..cefe14995603 100644
--- a/mail/exmh2/Makefile
+++ b/mail/exmh2/Makefile
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
# Version required: 1.6.9
# Date released: 10 Oct 96
# Whom: Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>
+#
+# $Id$
+#
DISTNAME= exmh-1.6.9
CATEGORIES+= mail
diff --git a/mail/exmh2/pkg-descr b/mail/exmh2/pkg-descr
index df8a9c548701..120901ba3c46 100644
--- a/mail/exmh2/pkg-descr
+++ b/mail/exmh2/pkg-descr
@@ -1,134 +1,23 @@
-exmh version: 1.6.7
-Brent.Welch@eng.sun.com
-
exmh is a TCL/TK based interface to the MH mail system.
-Version 1.6* is compatible with Tk 4.1, Tk4.0, Tk3.6, and Tk3.3
- Some features (e.g., color face icons) only work with Tk 4.0 or greater.
-exmh is known to work with MH versions 6.7 and 6.8.*
-
-**************************************************
-VERY IMPORTANT. PLEASE READ. SOURCE OF MANY PROBLEMS. READ THIS HERE :-)
-
-exmh depends on the TK send facility for its background processing.
-With TK 3.3, send now uses xauthority mechanisms by default, unless
-you compile TK with -DTK_NO_SECURITY. A manifestation of problems are
-that background processing doesn't work: new messages are not scanned
-into the current folder, the flag icon doesn't behave, and so on.
-Similarly, use of the exmh-async wrapper script also fails.
-If you cannot recompile wish, then the trick is to get your X server process
-started with the right incantation.
-
-Generally, this means that you must run xdm to start your Xserver.
-**************************************************
-
-EXMH lives "high in the food chain". You'll need some additional softare:
-**************************************************
-REQUIRED PACKAGES
-Find TCL and TK on
- ftp.sunlabs.com:/pub/tcl
- ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/tcl
- ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:/ucb/tcl
-Find MH on
- ftp.ics.uci.edu:/pub/mh
-Find Metamail (for MIME support, including 8-bit charsets) on
- ftp.bellcore.com:/pub/nsb
-****************************************************
-OPTIONAL PACKAGES
-Find Faces on
- cs.indiana.edu:/pub/faces
-Expect is available as
- pub/expect/expect.tar.Z from ftp.cme.nist.gov
-Japanization patch for Tcl and Tk
- srawgw.sra.co.jp:/pub/lang/tcl/jp
- tcl7.3jp-patch.gz, tcl7.3jp-update1.gz, tcl7.3jp-update2.gz,
- tk3.6jp-patch.gz, tk3.6jp-update1.gz, tk3.6jp-update2.gz.
- It seems that they will move the archives to ftp.sra.co.jp near future.
-Find Glimpse, the full text search engine, at University of Arizona:
- http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu:1994/
-****************************************************
-
-FEATURES
+IMPORTANT: exmh depends on the TK send facility for its background
+processing. With TK 3.3, send now uses xauthority mechanisms by default,
+unless you compile TK with -DTK_NO_SECURITY. Generally, this means that
+you must run xdm to start your Xserver.
-As well as providing the usual layer on top of MH commands, exmh
+FEATURES: As well as providing the usual layer on top of MH commands, exmh
has a number of other features:
- MIME support! Displays richtext and enriched directly. Parses
- multipart messages. A popup menu under the right button can invoke
- external viewers (metamail) for things not directly supported.
- Built-in editor allows simple composition of text/enriched format
- and multipart messages (via Insert Part).
-
- Color feedback in the scan listing so you can easily identify
- unseen messages (blue), the current message (red), deleted
- messages (gray background), and moved messages (yellow background).
- Xresources control these color choices.
-
- Monochrome displays highlight unseen messages with underline,
- current message in reverse video, deleted messages with cross-hatching
- background, and moved messages with stippled background.
-
- A folder display with one label per folder. Color highlights
- indicate the current folder (red), folders with unseen messages
- in them (blue), and the target folder for moves (yellow background).
- Nested folders are highlighted by a shadow box. A cache of
- recently visted folder buttons is also maintained. Monochrome
- highlights are reverse video for the current folder, bold box
- for folders with unseen messages, and stippled box for the
- target of move operations.
-
- Clever scan caching. MH users know that scan is slow, so
- exmh tries hard to cache the current state of the folder to
- avoid scanning. Moves and deletes within exmh do not
- invalidate the cache, and background incs that add new messages
- are handled by merging them into the scan listing. The
- scan cache is compatible with xmh.
-
- Facesaver bitmap display. If you have a facesaver database
- on your system, exmh displays the bitmap face of the person
- that sent the current message (or their organization).
- Otherwise, it just displays a boring EXMH logo.
-
- Background inc. You can set exmh to run inc periodically,
- or just to periodically count up the messages in your mail spool file.
- (Depends on proper TK send functioning. See notes below.)
-
- Various inc styles. Exmh knows about three styles of inc usage:
- Inc from your spool file to your inbox folder.
- Inc from your spool file or POP host to a set of dropboxes as specified
- by your ~/.xmhcheck file.
- Inc from your spool file directly into folders. Exmh can run the MH
- filtering program (slocal) for you, or you can let an external agent
- presort mail into folders for you.
-
+ MIME support! Displays richtext and enriched directly.
+ Color feedback in the scan listing.
+ A colour coded folder display with one label per folder.
+ Smart scan caching.
+ Facesaver bitmap display.
+ Background inc. You can set exmh to run inc periodically.
Searching over folder listing and message body.
-
A dialog-box interface to MH pick.
-
- A simple editor with emacs-like bindings is provided by default.
- It has an interface that lets you tweak key bindings.
-
- Editor interface. You can hook up exmh to TCL based-editors
- like mxedit quite easily. A script is also provided, exmh-async,
- for using terminal based editors like vi. The emacsclient.README
- file has hand-wavy instructions for using emacsclient to talk
- to an emacs server.
-
+ A editor editor with emacs-like bindings with MIME support.
Glimpse interface. You can index all your mail with glimpse
- and search for messages by content. The search works across
- all folders and runs quite fast. The indexes are only about 10%
- of the space of your mail database.
-
- User preferences. You can tune exmh through a dialog box. The settings
- are saved in an Xresource-style file named .exmh-defaults. You can
- also put font and color resource specifications in this file, plus
- there are a few random parameters not exposed via preferences.
-
+ and search for messages by content.
+ User preferences. You can tune exmh through a dialog box.
User hacking support. A user library of TCL routines is supported.
- The main implementation is chopped up into many smallish modules.
- So, you can modify a copy of some module to put your favorite mail
- reader hack in without affecting others (or convincing me to put
- it into the main line). There are also a number of places where
- hook procedures are used so you can refine the behavior of things
- like composing a reply message. Details in the man page.
-