This chapter talks about getting mail from your system mailbox into your MH ‘+inbox’ folder. The following command accomplishes that and is found in the ‘Folder’ menu.
mh-inc-folder).The following options in the ‘mh-inc’ customization group are used.
mh-inc-prog"inc").
mh-inc-spool-listnil).The following hook is available.
mh-inc-folder-hookmh-inc-folder after incorporating
mail into a folder (default: nil). If at any time you receive new mail,
incorporate the new mail into your ‘+inbox’ buffer with i
(mh-inc-folder). Note that i will display
the ‘+inbox’
buffer, even if there isn't any new mail. You can incorporate
mail from any file into the current folder by specifying a prefix
argument; you'll be prompted for the name of the file to use as
well as the destination folder (for example, C-u i ~/mbox
<RET> +tmp <RET>).
Emacs can notify you when you have new mail by displaying ‘Mail’ in the mode line. To enable this behavior, and to have a clock in the mode line as well, add the following to ~/.emacs:
(display-time)
The
name of the program that incorporates new mail is stored in
mh-inc-prog; it is "inc" by default.
This program generates a one-line summary for each of the new
messages. Unless it is an absolute pathname, the file is assumed
to be in the mh-progs directory (see Getting Started). You
may also link a file to inc that uses a different format (see
‘mh-profile’(5), and sections Reading
Mail: inc show next prev and MH Format
Strings in the MH book). You'll then need to modify several
variables appropriately (see Scan Line
Formats).
You can use the
mh-inc-spool-list variable to direct MH-E to
retrieve mail from arbitrary spool files other than your system
mailbox, file it in folders other than your
‘+inbox’, and
assign key bindings to incorporate this mail.
Suppose you are subscribed to the mh-e-devel mailing list and you use procmail to filter this mail into ~/mail/mh-e with the following recipe in .procmailrc:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/mh
MAILDIR=$HOME/`mhparam Path`
:0:
* ^From mh-e-devel-admin@stop.mail-abuse.org
mh-e
In order to
incorporate ~/mail/mh-e
into ‘+mh-e’
with an I m (mh-inc-spool-mh-e) command,
customize this option, and click on the ‘INS’ button. Enter a
‘Spool File’
of ‘~/mail/mh-e’, a
‘Folder’ of
‘mh-e’, and a
‘Key Binding’
of ‘m’.
You can use xbuffy to automate the incorporation of this mail using the Emacs 23 command emacsclient as follows:
box ~/mail/mh-e
title mh-e
origMode
polltime 10
headertime 0
command emacsclient --eval '(mh-inc-spool-mh-e)'
In XEmacs, the command gnuclient is used in a similar fashion.
You can set the
hook mh-inc-folder-hook, which is called after new
mail is incorporated by the i
(mh-inc-folder) command. A good use of this hook is
to rescan the whole folder either after running M-x
mh-rmail the first time or when you've changed the message
numbers from outside of MH-E.
(defun my-mh-inc-folder-hook ()
"Hook to rescan folder after incorporating mail."
(if (buffer-modified-p) ; if outstanding refiles and deletes,
(mh-execute-commands)) ; carry them out
(mh-rescan-folder) ; synchronize with +inbox
(mh-show)) ; show the current message
(add-hook 'mh-inc-folder-hook 'my-mh-inc-folder-hook)
Rescan folder after incorporating new mail via mh-inc-folder-hook