MH.6 available!

[Marshall Rose]

    A new release of the UCI version of the Rand Message Handling (MH)
    system is available for distribution.  This release of MH is called

				  MH 6.1

    There are a lot of changes between MH.5 and MH 6.1; a lot of
    performance enhancements were made, there's also a lot of support
    for distributed mail (personal mail and bulletin bboards).  If you
    have a number of machines at your site running 4.2BSD and connected
    by a high-speed network, you WANT this software.  In addition, mh.6
    has got a number of generalizations and bug fixes.  There's also a
    lot more documentation and an Administrator's Guide!

    Here are the details:

	- MH is in the public-domain
	- MH runs on a number of versions of UNIX (4.[123]BSD, V7, SYS5, and
	  XENIX) [sorry, no support for SYS3.]
	- MH runs on top of a number of mail transport systems
	  (MMDF-{I,II}, SendMail, stand-alone (with UUCP support))

    Although MH is not "supported" per se, it does have a bug-reporting
    address, Bug-MH at UCI.  Bug reports (and fixes) are welcome, by the
    way.  There are also two ARPA Internet discussion groups:
    MH-Users at UCI and MH-Workers at UCI (somewhat analogous in charter to
    Info-UNIX and UNIX-Wizards).

    There are two ways to get a distribution:

    1.  If you can FTP to the ARPA Internet, use anonymous FTP to
    huey.udel.edu [10.2.0.96] and retrieve the file portal/mh.6-tar.
    This is a tar image (approx 3MB).

    2.  You can send $50 to the address below.  This covers the cost of
    a magtape, handling, and shipping.  In addition, you'll get a
    laser-printed hard-copy of the entire MH documentation set.  Be sure
    to include your USPS address with your check.  Checks should be made
    payable to

		Regents of the University of California

    and must be drawn on U.S.  funds.  It's also a good idea (though not
    mandatory) to send a computer mail message to "Bug-MH at UCI" when you
    send your check via USPS to ensure minimal turn-around time.  The
    distribution address is:

	Support Group
	Attn: MH distribution
	Department of Information and Computer Science
	University of California, Irvine
	Irvine, CA  92717

	714/856-7553

    Sadly, if you just want the hard-copies of the documentation, you
    still have to pay the $50.00.  The tar image has the documentation
    source (the manual is in roff format, but the rest are in TeX
    format).

/mtr