Provided by: nmh_1.6-8build1_amd64 
NAME
install-mh - initialize the nmh environment
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/mh/install-mh [-auto] [-check] [-version] [-help]
DESCRIPTION
Install-mh is the nmh program to create the initial setup for a first-time nmh user. Install-mh lives in
two places for historical reasons.
The -auto option does things as automatically as possible and makes install-mh less chatty.
The user is asked for the name of the directory that will be designated as the user's nmh directory. If
this directory does not exist, the user is asked if it should be created. Normally, this directory
should be under the user's home directory, and has the default name of ``Mail''. Install-mh writes an
initial .mh_profile for the user.
As with all nmh commands, install-mh first checks for the existence of the $MH environment variable since
that gives the profile path if set. If it isn't set, the $HOME environment variable is consulted to
determine the user's home directory. If $HOME is not set, then the /etc/passwd file is consulted.
When creating the users initial .mh_profile, install-mh will check for the existence of a global profile
/etc/nmh/mh.profile. If found, this will be used to initialize the new .mh_profile.
The -check option can be used to check whether or not nmh has been installed. This can be used by other
programs to determine whether or not nmh has been installed without their having to know the internals of
nmh.
FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user's profile.
/etc/nmh/mh.profile Used to initialize user's profile.
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To set the user's nmh directory.
CONTEXT
With -auto, the current folder is changed to “inbox”.
UNDOING THE INSTALLATION
If you only ran install-mh to try out nmh briefly, you might like to remove the configuration files it
creates. (This is not obligatory -- install-mh creates only a few small files so simply leaving them in
place will not cause problems.)
Most nmh configuration information lives in the user's nmh directory; you can print its name by running
mhpath +
Basically all plain files in the nmh directory are configuration files and can be removed.
Attention: The nmh directory holds not just configuration files! Its subdirectories contain all the
emails you have written or received with nmh. Don't delete the nmh directory without carefully checking
that there are no mail files that you might want later!
The only configuration file that lives outside the nmh directory is your profile file. You can print its
name by running
echo ${MH:-$HOME/.mh-profile}
If you aren't using nmh any more you can delete this file, too.