STMH v1.2b Beta release 14/1/95 Development by Stephen K Mulrine Additions by Graeme Mullin Bug reports and comments to stmh@moroder.demon.co.uk Based (loosely) on the Rand MH Message Handling System. Requirements ------------ Any Atari ST, TT or Falcon Hard disk with at least .5MB free Demon NOS software Text editor (e.g. Gnome, as supplied with Demon's NOS package) Concepts -------- STMH uses folders, within which messages are stored. Folder names are prefixed by a "+". Each message within a folder has a number. Messages can be moved from folder to folder. And, because folders are independent of one another, two messages in different folders can have the same number. There are three "special" folders. "+inbox" is normally used to hold new (incoming) messages, "+outgoing" holds all your replies until you send them, and "+sent" optionally holds a copy of all the messages you send. When you forward or reply to a message, or compose a new one, you create a new message in the "+outgoing" folder. You don't have to send it straight away - you can have several messages in "+outgoing" at a time, and only send a particular message when you've finished working on it. Just as STMH breaks your mailbox up into separate messages, STMH itself is broken up into several different programs. (Most other mailers consist of one program with all the necessary functions built in.) The idea behind this is that you can intersperse mailer commands with other functions, e.g. edit a program, reply to somebody's mail, compile the program..