mail/nmh-devel 2026.08.23_1 FreeBSD

Cleaned up MH mailer suite

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-10-09
Commit: 8419ded74e
License: BSD3CLAUSE
Categories: mail
Package size: 1277.0 KiB, 6776.1 KiB installed

Description

What is it?

nmh (new MH) is an electronic mail handling system - a MUA (Mail User Agent) package for end-users to handle their e-mail. It was originally based on the package MH-6.8.3, and is intended to be a (mostly) compatible drop-in replacement for MH.

nmh consists of a collection of fairly simple single-purpose programs to send, receive, save, retrieve, and manipulate e-mail messages. Since nmh is not a single comprehensive program, you may freely intersperse nmh commands with other shells commands, or write custom scripts which utilize these commands in flexible ways.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

mail/nmh-devel

2026.08.23_1

DragonFly

mail/nmh-devel

2025.01.08_1

HardenedBSD

mail/nmh-devel

2026.01.20_1

GhostBSD

mail/nmh-devel

2026.01.20_1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install nmh-devel

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/mail/nmh-devel/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	nmh-devel>0:mail/nmh-devel

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository

aarch64

amd64

armv6

armv7

i386

FreeBSD:14:latest

2026.08.23_1

2022.07.04

2025.06.11_1

2026.08.23_1

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

2026.01.20_1

n/a

2025.04.13_1

2026.01.20_1

FreeBSD:15:latest

2026.08.23_1

n/a

2025.06.11_1

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

2026.01.20_1

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

2026.01.20_1

2026.08.23_1

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Library 2

libcurl.so : ftp/curl
liblockfile.so : devel/liblockfile

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 25

Run dependencies 20

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: mail_nmh

Option

Default

Description

DOCS

off

Build and/or install documentation

DOT

off

Dot file locking

ELINKS

off

Install dependencies for www/elinks

FCNTL

off

fcntl() file locking

FLOCK

flock() file locking

HASH_BKP

off

Use hash as backup prefix (default is a comma)

LINKS

off

Install dependencies for www/links

LOCKF

off

lockf file locking

LYNX

off

Install dependencies for www/lynx

REPLYFILTER

off

Install dependencies for contrib/replyfilter

SASL2

off

SASL2 support

SENDMAIL_PIPE

Use local sendmail (connect through pipe)

SENDMAIL_SMTP

off

Use local sendmail (connect through socket)

SMTP

off

Use remote SMTP

TLS

off

Secure network connection support via TLS

W3M

Install dependencies for www/w3m

USES: autoreconf:build cpe gmake iconv ncurses python readline shebangfix
Service scripts: none
Conflicts with: ali ja-mh pixie p5-Dist-Joseki nmh-1.*

Message after installing

Some files you might need to customize include the following:

    mhn.defaults - adjust the programs used to handle various
	MIME content types.

    mts.conf - adjust the "servers" setting if you don't have
	a locally installed sendmail (or other MTA).

You may also find interesting freely avaiable book about nmh:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/

Files

Manual pages 71

MH(7)
ali(1)
anno(1)
ap(8)
burst(1)
comp(1)
dist(1)
dp(8)
flist(1)
flists(1)
fmtdump(8)
fmttest(1)
fnext(1)
folder(1)
folders(1)
forw(1)
fprev(1)
inc(1)
install-mh(1)
mark(1)
mh-alias(5)
mh-chart(7)
mh-draft(5)
mh-folders(5)
mh-format(5)
mh-mail(5)
mh-mime(7)
mh-mkstemp(1)
mh-profile(5)
mh-sequence(5)
mh-tailor(5)
mh_profile(5)
mhbuild(1)
mhfixmsg(1)
mhical(1)
mhl(1)
mhlist(1)
mhlogin(1)
mhmail(1)
mhn(1)
mhparam(1)
mhpath(1)
mhshow(1)
mhstore(1)
msgchk(1)
mts.conf(5)
new(1)
next(1)
nmh(7)
packf(1)
pick(1)
post(8)
prev(1)
prompter(1)
rcvdist(1)
rcvpack(1)
rcvstore(1)
rcvtty(1)
refile(1)
repl(1)
rmf(1)
rmm(1)
scan(1)
send(1)
sendfiles(1)
show(1)
slocal(1)
sortm(1)
unseen(1)
whatnow(1)
whom(1)

pkg-plist 203

bin/ali
bin/anno
bin/burst
bin/comp
bin/dist
bin/flist
bin/flists
bin/fmttest
bin/fnext
bin/folder
bin/folders
bin/forw
bin/fprev
@group mail
@mode 2755
bin/inc
@mode
@group
bin/install-mh
bin/mark
bin/mhbuild
bin/mhfixmsg
bin/mhlist
bin/mhical
bin/mhlogin
bin/mhmail
bin/mhn
bin/mhparam
bin/mhpath
bin/mhshow
bin/mhstore
bin/msgchk
bin/new
bin/next
bin/packf
bin/pick
bin/prev
bin/prompter
bin/refile
bin/repl
bin/rmf
bin/rmm
bin/scan
bin/send
bin/sendfiles
bin/show
bin/sortm
bin/unseen
bin/whatnow
bin/whom
@sample etc/nmh/MailAliases-dist etc/nmh/MailAliases
@sample etc/nmh/bash_completion_nmh-dist etc/nmh/bash_completion_nmh
@sample etc/nmh/mhical.12hour-dist etc/nmh/mhical.12hour
@sample etc/nmh/mhical.24hour-dist etc/nmh/mhical.24hour
@sample etc/nmh/mhl.replywithoutbody-dist etc/nmh/mhl.replywithoutbody
@sample etc/nmh/rmmproc.messageid-dist etc/nmh/rmmproc.messageid
@sample etc/nmh/components-dist etc/nmh/components
@sample etc/nmh/digestcomps-dist etc/nmh/digestcomps
@sample etc/nmh/distcomps-dist etc/nmh/distcomps
@sample etc/nmh/forwcomps-dist etc/nmh/forwcomps
@sample etc/nmh/mhl.body-dist etc/nmh/mhl.body
@sample etc/nmh/mhl.digest-dist etc/nmh/mhl.digest
@sample etc/nmh/mhl.format-dist etc/nmh/mhl.format
@sample etc/nmh/mhl.forward-dist etc/nmh/mhl.forward
@sample etc/nmh/mhl.headers-dist etc/nmh/mhl.headers
@sample etc/nmh/mhl.reply-dist etc/nmh/mhl.reply
@sample etc/nmh/mhn.defaults-dist etc/nmh/mhn.defaults
@sample etc/nmh/mhshow.marker-dist etc/nmh/mhshow.marker
@sample etc/nmh/mts.conf-dist etc/nmh/mts.conf
@sample etc/nmh/rcvdistcomps-dist etc/nmh/rcvdistcomps
@sample etc/nmh/rcvdistcomps.outbox-dist etc/nmh/rcvdistcomps.outbox
@sample etc/nmh/replcomps-dist etc/nmh/replcomps
@sample etc/nmh/replgroupcomps-dist etc/nmh/replgroupcomps
@sample etc/nmh/scan.MMDDYY-dist etc/nmh/scan.MMDDYY
@sample etc/nmh/scan.YYYYMMDD-dist etc/nmh/scan.YYYYMMDD
@sample etc/nmh/scan.curses-dist etc/nmh/scan.curses
@sample etc/nmh/scan.default-dist etc/nmh/scan.default
@sample etc/nmh/scan.highlighted-dist etc/nmh/scan.highlighted
@sample etc/nmh/scan.mailx-dist etc/nmh/scan.mailx
@sample etc/nmh/scan.nomime-dist etc/nmh/scan.nomime
@sample etc/nmh/scan.size-dist etc/nmh/scan.size
@sample etc/nmh/scan.time-dist etc/nmh/scan.time
@sample etc/nmh/scan.timely-dist etc/nmh/scan.timely
@sample etc/nmh/scan.unseen-dist etc/nmh/scan.unseen
libexec/nmh/ap
libexec/nmh/dp
libexec/nmh/fmtdump
libexec/nmh/mhl
libexec/nmh/mkstemp
libexec/nmh/post
libexec/nmh/rcvdist
libexec/nmh/rcvpack
libexec/nmh/rcvstore
libexec/nmh/rcvtty
libexec/nmh/slocal
libexec/nmh/spost
libexec/nmh/viamail
share/man/man1/ali.1.gz
share/man/man1/anno.1.gz
share/man/man1/burst.1.gz

The first 100 are listed.

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Commit history 5

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-09

8419ded74e

Cy Schubert

mail/nmh-devel: Update for real

I had cut and pasted the git hash from my copy of the savannah repo instead of my github copy. Long story short, I should have been paying more attention. Thanks to "Herbert J. Skuhra" <[email protected]> for pointing this out and providing a patch. Fixes: b2eb4db3310a Pointy hat to: cy

2026-10-09

b2eb4db331

Cy Schubert

mail/nmh-devel: Update to latest GH commit

Update to the latest nmh commit on savannah, proxied through my GH account.

2026-09-08

b476fcf6b7

Cy Schubert

mail/nmh-devel: Fix stage-qa

Add USES=python and list python files in docs to satisfy stage-qa. PR: 298190

2026-08-11

d63f7788d8

Cy Schubert

mail/nmh-devel: Remove unneeded WRKSRC assignment

Fixes: 86516d72fab5

2026-08-11

86516d72fa

Cy Schubert

mail/nmh-devel: Switch to my GH repo

Fetching git hashes from savannah no longer works (though fetching versioned snapshots still does). As such we must proxy through my github account.