mrose%NRTC@USC-ECL.ARPA (Marshall Rose) (11/18/85)
A new release of the UCI version of the Rand Message Handling (MH)
system is available for distribution. This release of MH is called
MH 6.1
There are a lot of changes between MH.5 and MH 6.1; a lot of
performance enhancements were made, there's also a lot of support
for distributed mail (personal mail and bulletin bboards). If you
have a number of machines at your site running 4.2BSD and connected
by a high-speed network, you WANT this software. In addition, mh.6
has got a number of generalizations and bug fixes. There's also a
lot more documentation and an Administrator's Guide!
Here are the details:
- MH is in the public-domain
- MH runs on a number of versions of UNIX (4.[123]BSD, V7, SYS5, and
XENIX) [sorry, no support for SYS3.]
- MH runs on top of a number of mail transport systems
(MMDF-{I,II}, SendMail, stand-alone (with UUCP support))
Although MH is not "supported" per se, it does have a bug-reporting
address, Bug-MH@UCI. Bug reports (and fixes) are welcome, by the
way. There are also two ARPA Internet discussion groups:
MH-Users@UCI and MH-Workers@UCI (somewhat analogous in charter to
Info-UNIX and UNIX-Wizards).
There are two ways to get a distribution:
1. If you can FTP to the ARPA Internet, use anonymous FTP to
huey.udel.edu [10.2.0.96] and retrieve the file portal/mh.6-tar.
This is a tar image (approx 3MB).
2. You can send $50 to the address below. This covers the cost of
a magtape, handling, and shipping. In addition, you'll get a
laser-printed hard-copy of the entire MH documentation set. Be sure
to include your USPS address with your check. Checks should be made
payable to
Regents of the University of California
and must be drawn on U.S. funds. It's also a good idea (though not
mandatory) to send a computer mail message to "Bug-MH@UCI" when you
send your check via USPS to ensure minimal turn-around time. The
distribution address is:
Support Group
Attn: MH distribution
Department of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
714/856-7553
Sadly, if you just want the hard-copies of the documentation, you
still have to pay the $50.00. The tar image has the documentation
source (the manual is in roff format, but the rest are in TeX
format).
/mtr