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== Design == Designed with the [[Unix philosophy]] in mind,<ref name=indiana>[https://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/mail/mh.html "The MH Mailer -- A brief intro"], Marc VanHeyningen, December 1993.</ref> MH is composed of separate programs such as <code>show</code>, to view a message, <code>scan</code>, to see message titles and <code>rmm</code> to remove messages. By using the <code>pick</code> program, it is possible to select messages, based on sender for example, which the other programs act on. Because the different programs are run separately and at different times, communication between them has to be arranged specially. Information such as the mail which is currently selected is stored in files (in this case by an <code>.mh_sequences</code> file in the user's MH directory tree).
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