Historical Documentation for the RAND MH Email System

These documents are mostly of historical interest. All of them are also available in the Documentation package.

RAND Publications

• The Design of the MH Mail System (paper)
• Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail (paper and HTML)

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:

• UCI MH for Beginners (text version)
• The MH Administrator's Manual - how to configure MH (text version)
• The MH User's Manual (text version)
• Changes from MH 6.6 to MH 6.8 (text version)
• How to generate MH (aka mh-gen(8)) (text version)

MH Papers

Here are formatted versions of MH papers (written using the TeX typesetting language). Postscript versions and crude text conversions are available:

• The MH Tutorial (text conversion)
• MH.5 - How to process 200 messages a day... (text conversion)
• MHN (Multimedia MH) Tutorial
• MH for MM users (text conversion)
• Changes from MH 6.0 to MH 6.5 for 4.3BSD (text conversion)
• MH: A Multifarious User Agent (text conversion)
• MZnet - Mail Service for Personal Micro Computer Systems (text conversion)
• Design of the TTI Prototype Trusted Mail Agent (text conversion)
• The UCI BBoards Facility (text conversion)
• Queue-MH: Work-queue management with MH