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<h1>MH & nmh: Road Map</h1>
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Don't be intimidated by the size of this book: You can use
MH, <em>xmh</em>, <em>exmh</em> or MH-E right away by reading the
quick-start tutorials. The rest of the book is here to help you do
much more, but you don't have to read it all!
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<h2>Need to get started in a hurry?</h2>
If you aren't sure which of this book's four email systems you'd
like to start with, read the Section on
<a href="overall/howwor.html#EmaUsAge">Email User Agents</a>. Do
the short <a href="overall/ch-su.html">MH setup</a>. Then choose a
quick-start tutorial:
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<a href="mh/ch-ttm.html">MH</a>
<li>
<a href="xmh/ch-ttx.html"><em>xmh</em></a>
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<a href="exmh/ch-ie.html"><em>exmh</em></a>
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If you find that you need more email basics, refer the book's
<a href="overall/ch-i.html">Introductory Chapter</a>.
<h2>Want more details?</h2>
The book has a system of cross-reference links to help you find
related information quickly. Each tutorial ends with a list of
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<a href="xmh/xmhrg.html"><em>xmh</em></a>,
<a href="overall/mimerg.html">MIME</a>.
<p>
If you'd like to know many or all of the features of a particular
system, read the part of the book that applies; use the table of
contents or the index to find the part you want, and search for
key words or titles with your browser's "search" command. Because
MH-E, <em>xmh</em>, and
<em>exmh</em> are interfaces to MH, you'll get a better
understanding of a system by reading about the parts of MH that
apply to it. Special tables of contents point you to all MH book
sections (not just the main Parts) that apply to
<a href="exmh/ch-ie.html">exmh</a> and
<a href="xmh/ch-ttx.html">xmh</a>.
<p>
Although this book has plenty of information that isn't in your
online MH and <em>xmh</em> manual pages, those manual pages have
some details that we've omitted from the book. The MH system has
some 50 individual manual pages of its own; the <em>mh</em>(1)
manual page summarizes them. The <em>exmh</em> online
documentation is related to its part of this book, though the book
has cross-references and figures that aren't in the documentation.
The <a href="overall/ap-rl.html">Reference List</a> points to
Internet standards and other books that will build a framework to
help you get the most from your email system.
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