Editing MH Message Handling System (section)

== History ==

MH was proposed by R. Stockton Gaines and [[Norman Shapiro]] and developed by Bruce S. Borden and others at [[RAND Corporation]].<ref>{{cite web | title=The Design of the MH Mail System |url=https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/notes/2009/N3017.pdf | access-date = 2017-05-09 | date=December 1989 | page=11 note 2 |author=Robert H. Anderson |author2=Norman Z. Shapiro |author3=Tora K. Bikson |author4=Phyllis H. Kantar }}</ref>  The initial version of MH had been created by 1979.  Subsequently development was taken over by [[Marshall Rose|Marshall T. Rose]] and John L. Romine working at University of California, Irvine.  The last release of MH was 6.8.4 which was a maintenance patch for the 6.8.3 release, and it's in the public domain.

'''nmh''' ("new MH")<ref name=nmh>{{cite web |title=nmh - Message Handling System |url=http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ |access-date=20 December 2018}}</ref> is a current active version of MH.  It was [[fork (software)|fork]]ed from version MH 6.8.3 by Richard Coleman while working at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and released under the [[BSD License]],. It incorporates the "LBL changes" made to MH in the late 80s by [[Van Jacobson]], [[Michael J. Karels|Mike Karels]] and Craig Leres.<ref>{{cite web | title=nmh - "LBL" changes | url=http://savannah.nongnu.org/people/resume.php?user_id=20830 | access-date = 2012-03-23 }}</ref>  The most recent release is nmh 1.8, 18 February 2023. .<ref name=nmh/>

'''mmh''' ("meillo's mail handler")<ref name=mmh>{{cite web |title=meillo's mail handler (mmh) |url=http://marmaro.de/prog/mmh/ |access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref> is a fork of nmh, but their user interface are incompatible.