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INSTALL-MH(8mh)                                                                   INSTALL-MH(8mh)

NAME
       install-mh - initialize the nmh environment

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lib/mh/install-mh [-help] [-version] [-auto] [-check]

DESCRIPTION
       install-mh  creates  the initial setup for a first-time nmh user.  install-mh is installed
       in two locations for historical reasons.

       The -auto switch does things as  automatically  as  possible  and  makes  install-mh  less
       chatty.

       The  user is prompted for the name of the directory to be designated as the user's nmh di-
       rectory.  If this directory does not exist, the user is asked if  it  should  be  created.
       Normally,  this  directory  should be under the user's home directory, and has the default
       name of `Mail'.  install-mh writes an initial .mh_profile for the user.

       As with all nmh commands, install-mh first checks for the existence of the $MH environment
       variable, since that, if set, gives the profile path.  If it isn't set, the $HOME environ-
       ment variable is consulted to determine the user's home directory.  If $HOME is  not  set,
       then the /etc/passwd file is consulted.

       When  creating the user's .mh_profile, install-mh will check for the existence of a global
       profile at /etc/nmh/mh.profile.  If found,  this  will  be  used  to  initialize  the  new
       .mh_profile.

       The  -check switch checks if nmh is installed.  (This can be used by other programs to de-
       termine if nmh has been installed.)

FILES
       $HOME/.mh_profile   The user's profile.
       /etc/nmh/mh.profile Used to initialize user's profile.

PROFILE COMPONENTS
       Path:               To set the user's nmh directory.

CONTEXT
       With -auto, the current folder is changed to "inbox".

UNDOING THE INSTALLATION
       If you only ran install-mh to try out nmh briefly, you might like to remove the configura-
       tion  files  it  creates.  (This  is not obligatory -- install-mh creates only a few small
       files so simply leaving them in place will not cause problems.)

       Most nmh configuration information lives in the user's nmh directory; you  can  print  its
       name by running

       mhpath +

       Basically all plain files in the nmh directory are configuration files and can be removed.

       Attention:  The  nmh directory holds not just configuration files! Its subdirectories con-
       tain all the emails you have written or received with nmh.  Don't delete the nmh directory
       without carefully checking that there are no mail files that you might want later!

       The only configuration file that lives outside the nmh directory is your profile file. You
       can print its name by running

       echo ${MH:-$HOME/.mh-profile}

       If you aren't using nmh any more you can delete this file, too.

nmh-1.7.1                                   2002-11-18                            INSTALL-MH(8mh)

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