This appendix covers a few topics that don't fit elsewhere. Here I tell you how to report bugs and how to get on the mh-e mailing list. I also point out some additional sources of information.
The current maintainer of mh-e is Stephen Gildea <gildea@lcs.mit.edu>. Please mail bug reports directly to him, as well as any praise or suggestions. Please include the output of M-x mh-version (see section Miscellaneous Commands) in any bug report you send.
There is a mailing list, mh-e@x.org, for discussion of mh-e and announcements of new versions. Send a "subscribe" message to mh-e-request@x.org to be added. Do not report bugs on this list; mail them directly to the maintainer (see section Bug Reports).
An FAQ appears monthly in the newsgroup `comp.mail.mh'. While very little is there that deals with mh-e specifically, there is an incredible wealth of material about MH itself which you will find useful. The subject of the FAQ is MH Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with Answers.
The FAQ can be also obtained by anonymous ftp or via the
World Wide Web (WWW). It is located at:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/mh-faq/part1 http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mh-faq/part1/faq.html
Otherwise, you can use mail. Send mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu containing the following:
send usenet/news.answers/mail/mh-faq/part1
If you're running a pre-4.0 version of mh-e, please consider upgrading. You can either have your system administrator upgrade your Emacs, or just the files for mh-e.
The MH distribution contains a copy of mh-e in `miscellany/mh-e'. Make sure it is at least Version 4.0.
The latest version of mh-e can be obtained via anonymous ftp from
`ftp.x.org'. The file containing mh-e is currently
`/misc/mh-e/mh-e-5.0.2.tar.Z'
I suggest that you
extract the files from `mh-e-5.0.2.tar.Z' in the
following fashion:
% cd # Start in your home directory % mkdir lib lib/emacs # Create directory for mh-e % cd lib/emacs % zcat path/to/mh-e-5.0.2.tar.Z | tar xvf - # Extract files
To use these new files, add the following to `~/.emacs':
(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/lib/emacs") load-path))
That's it! If you're already running Emacs, please quit that session and start again to load in the new mh-e. Check that you're running the new version with the command M-x mh-version after running any mh-e command. The distribution comes with a file called `MH-E-NEWS' so you can see what's new.