The parent's pointer is to "MH-E", the emacs package, which is a great interface to MH for folks who use emacs to read their email. For folks who don't, I want

The parent's pointer is to "MH-E", the emacs package, which is a great interface to MH for folks who use emacs to read their email. For folks who don't, I wanted to clarify that MH also works great outside of emacs. Its command-line tools are composable, so you can do things like reply to the first message about chess sent this week: repl `pick -subject chess -after "19 May 24 0000 PST"` Using them in scripts is especially powerful. The modern implementation is "nmh", "New Message Handler", https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/. MH was the mail system within MIT's Athena computing environment back in the day, so many MIT folks developed a fondness for it and it retains a following. There's even a very comprehensive O'Reilly book, free online: https://rand-mh.sourceforge.io/book/ https://rand-mh.sourceforge.io/book/