Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jonstewart 562 days ago
Neat. I used and loved “mh” in college, but that was before html email became prevalent. It was beautiful to have different commands and treat emails as individual files. Unfortunately mh was grotty old C code and just couldn’t keep up (IMHO) with how we use email today.

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

2 comments

shameless plug: i wrote emlv[1] (EMaiL Viewer) in the same mindset. it displays raw email files on the terminal.

[1] https://codeberg.org/hband/gemlv#emlv

> I used and loved “mh” in college

Same and also `nmh`. Loved how you could combine the various parts to make your own tools.

me too - nmh and MH-E still learning though