You can send a mail message in several ways. You can call M-x mh-smail directly, or from the command line like this:
$ emacs -f mh-smail
There are some commands that need to send a mail message, such as
goto-address-at-point. You can configure Emacs to have these
commands use MH-E by setting the option mail-user-agent to
‘Emacs interface to MH’.
From within MH-E’s MH-Folder mode, other methods of sending mail are available as well. These can also be found in the ‘Message’ menu.
Edit a message that was returned by the mail system
(mh-extract-rejected-mail).
Compose a message with the MH mail system in other window.
In addition, several options from the ‘mh-sending-mail’ customization group are useful when sending mail or replying to mail. They are summarized in the following table.
mh-compose-forward-as-mime-flag ¶On means that messages are forwarded as attachments (default: ‘on’).
mh-compose-letter-function ¶Hook run when starting a new draft (default: nil).
mh-compose-prompt-flag ¶On means prompt for header fields when composing a new draft (default: ‘off’).
mh-forward-subject-format ¶Format string for forwarded message subject (default: "%s:
%s").
mh-insert-x-mailer-flag ¶On means append an ‘X-Mailer:’ header field to the header (default: ‘on’).
mh-redist-full-contents-flag ¶On means the dist command needs entire letter for
redistribution (default: ‘off’).
mh-reply-default-reply-to ¶Sets the person or persons to whom a reply will be sent (default: ‘Prompt’).
mh-reply-show-message-flag ¶On means the MH-Show buffer is displayed using r
(mh-reply) (default: ‘on’).
The following hooks are available.
mh-annotate-msg-hook ¶Hook run by mh-annotate-msg after annotation (default:
nil).
mh-forward-hook ¶Hook run by mh-forward on a forwarded letter (default:
nil).
mh-letter-mode-hook ¶Hook run by mh-letter-mode on a new letter (default:
nil).
A hook that is called whenever a message is sent and after the scan
lines and message are annotated is mh-annotate-msg-hook. Hook
functions can access the current folder name with
mh-current-folder and obtain the message numbers of the
annotated messages with mh-annotate-list.
The rest of the functions and options introduced here are explained in more detail in the following sections.