-.TH MH-PROFILE %manext5% "November 6, 2012" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MH-PROFILE %manext5% "April 14, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
.\"
.\" %nmhwarning%
.\"
.SH NAME
mh-profile \- user profile customization for nmh message handler
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.I $HOME/.mh\(ruprofile
.SH DESCRIPTION
Each user of
.B nmh
(profile, default: vi)
.RE
.PP
-.BR automimeproc :
-.RS 5
-If defined and set to 1, then the
-.B whatnow
-program will automatically
-invoke the buildmimeproc (discussed below) to process each message as a MIME
-composition draft before it is sent.
-(profile, no default)
-.RE
-.PP
.BR Msg\-Protect :
600
.RS 5
and
.B repl
to construct your default \*(lqFrom\*(rq header. The text used here will
-be copied exactly to your From: header, so it should already be RFC-822
+be copied exactly to your From: header, so it should already be RFC 822
compliant. If this is set, the
.B Signature
profile entry is NOT used, so it should include a signature as well. (profile,
signature text. The \*(lqLocal\-Mailbox\*(rq profile component
supersedes all of this. (profile, no default)
.RE
+.PP
+.BR credentials :
+\&legacy
+.RS 5
+Indicates how the username and password credentials will be retrieved
+for access to external servers, such as those that provide SMTP or POP
+service. The supported entry values are \*(lqlegacy\*(rq and
+.RI \*(lqfile: netrc \*(rq.
+With \*(lqlegacy\*(rq, or if there is no credentials entry, the
+username is the first of:
+.PP
+.RS 5
+1)
+.B \-user
+switch to
+.BR send ,
+.BR post ,
+.BR whom ,
+.BR inc ,
+or
+.B msgchk
+program
+.br
+2) the login name on the local machine
+.RE
+.PP
+The password for SMTP services is the first of:
+.PP
+.RS 5
+1) password value from matching entry in file named \*(lq.netrc\*(rq
+in the user's home directory
+.br
+2) password obtained by interactively prompting the user
+.RE
+.PP
+The password for POP service when the
+.B \-sasl
+switch is used with one of these programs is the login name on the
+local machine.
+.PP
+With a
+.RI \*(lqfile: netrc \*(rq
+.B credentials
+entry, the username is the first of:
+.PP
+.RS 5
+1)
+.B \-user
+switch to program
+.br
+2) login name from matching entry in
+.I netrc
+file
+.br
+3) value provided by user in response to interactive query
+.RE
+.PP
+Similarly, the password is provided either in the
+.I netrc
+file or interactively.
+.I netrc
+can be any valid filename, either absolute or relative to Path or
+$HOME. The
+.I netrc
+file contains authentication information, for each server,
+using a line of the following form. Replace the words
+.IR myserver ,
+.IR mylogin ,
+and
+.I mypassword
+with your own account information:
+.PP
+.RS 5
+.B machine
+.I myserver
+.B login
+.I mylogin
+.B password
+.I mypassword
+.RE
+.PP
+This
+.I netrc
+file must be owned and readable only by you.
+(profile, default: legacy)
+.RE
.SS "Process Profile Entries"
The following profile elements are used whenever an
.B nmh
none
.RS 5
This is the program used by
-.B rmm
+.BR rmm ,
+.BR refile ,
and
-.B refile
+.B mhfixmsg
to delete a message from a folder.
.RE
.PP
in addition to the mhn.defaults profile.
.RE
.PP
-.B $MM_CHARSET
-.RS 5
-With this environment variable, you can specify
-the native character set you are using. You must be able to display
-this character set on your terminal.
-.PP
-This variable is checked to see if a RFC-2047 header field should be
-decoded (in
-.BR inc ,
-.BR scan ,
-.BR mhl ).
-This variable is
-checked by
-.B show
-to see if the
-.I showproc
-or
-.I showmimeproc
-should
-be called, since showmimeproc will be called if a text message uses
-a character set that doesn't match
-.BR $MM_CHARSET .
-This variable is
-checked by
-.B mhshow
-for matches against the charset parameter
-of text contents to decide it the text content can be displayed
-without modifications to your terminal. This variable is checked by
-.B mhbuild
-to decide what character set to specify in the charset
-parameter of text contents containing 8\-bit characters.
-.PP
-When decoding text in such an alternate character set,
-.B nmh
-must be able to determine which characters are alphabetic, which
-are control characters, etc. For many operating systems, this
-will require enabling the support for locales (such as setting
-the environment variable
-.B $LC_CTYPE
-to iso_8859_1).
-.RE
-.PP
.B $MAILDROP
.RS 5
This variable tells
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