In May, 2006, this archive was copied to http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/, reorganized for easier access, and updated to include MH patches from other sources. The copy here at ics.uci.edu is not maintained. Here is an announcement of the new archive.
Welcome to the home page for the MH Message Handler, an electronic mail user agent for the UNIX operating system.
MH was originally developed by Bruce S. Borden at RAND Corporation; development continued at the University of California, Irvine by Marshall T. Rose and John L. Romine. MH is now in the public domain. The last full release was UCI version 6.8.3, but a patch is available to make a maintenance release, version 6.8.4.
MH Resources
RAND Publications
Formatted MH Documentation
Here are formatted versions of the major MH documents (written using the troff "-ms" and "-me" macro packages). Postscript versions and plain text versions (formatted for 66 lines/page, suitable for line printing) are available:
Here are formatted versions of MH papers (written using the TeX typesetting language). Postscript versions and crude text conversions are available:
Year-2000 compliance: As noted above, MH is public domain software; I don't know of anyone willing to certify it as Y2K-compliant.
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