+
+/*
+ * Allocate and return a credentials structure. The credentials structure
+ * is now opaque; you need to use accessors to get inside of it. The
+ * accessors will only prompt the user for missing fields if they are
+ * needed.
+ *
+ * Arguments:
+ *
+ * host - Hostname we're connecting to (used to search credentials file)
+ * user - Username we are logging in as; can be NULL.
+ *
+ * Returns NULL on error, otherwise an allocated nmh_creds structure.
+ */
+nmh_creds_t nmh_get_credentials (const char *host, const char *user);
+
+/*
+ * Retrieve the user from a nmh_creds structure. May prompt the user
+ * if one is not defined.
+ *
+ * Arguments:
+ *
+ * creds - Structure from previous nmh_get_credentials() call
+ *
+ * Returns NULL on error, otherwise a NUL-termined string containing
+ * the username. Points to allocated memory in the credentials structure
+ * that is free()d by nmh_free_credentials().
+ */
+const char *nmh_cred_get_user(nmh_creds_t creds);
+
+/*
+ * Retrieve the password from an nmh_creds structure. Otherwise identical
+ * to nmh_cred_get_user().
+ */
+const char *nmh_cred_get_password(nmh_creds_t creds);
+
+/*
+ * Free an allocated nmh_creds structure.
+ */
+void nmh_credentials_free(nmh_creds_t creds);
+
+/*
+ * program initialization
+ *
+ * argv0 - argv[0], presumably the program name
+ * read_context - 0: don't read context
+ * - 1: read context, check nmh version, and issue warning message
+ * if non-existent or old
+ * - 2: read context, don't check nmh version
+ */
+int nmh_init(const char *argv0, int read_context);
+
+/*
+ * temporary file management
+ */
+int m_unlink(const char *);
+void unregister_for_removal(int remove_files);