MHonArc Frequently Asked Questions

This documents contains answers to some of the frequently asked question on MHonArc. MHonArc is a Perl program for converting e-mail messages as specified in RFC 822 and MIME to HTML. MHonArc has the ability to maintain an archive of converted messages, or it can be used as a basic e-mail->HTML converter.

Table of Contents

• About the FAQ
  • Summary
  • Terms and Definitions
  • Version
  • Location
  • Author

• General
  • What is MHonArc?
  • What's the latest version of MhonArc?
  • Where can I get MHonArc?
  • How much does MHonArc cost?
  • Where can I get help on MHonArc?
  • How does MHonArc compare to other e-mail converters, like Hypermail?
  • Are their "real-world" examples of MHonArc usage?

• Supported Environments
  • What platforms can MHonArc run under?
  • What about Mac?
  • What version of Perl is required to run MHonArc?
  • What mail user agents (MUA's) does MHonarc support?
  • Can MHonArc process Compuserve messages?
  • Can MHonArc create non-English archives?
  • Can I create bilingual archives?

• General Usage
  • What are "resources"?
  • I get an error that "newgetopt.pl" cannot be required, where is it?
  • Does MHonArc provide searching of archives?
  • Is there a Web interface for MHonArc?
  • Does MHonArc require that the original message be available when updating an archive?
  • Do I have to respecify the resource file each time I update an archive?
  • Can I have MHonArc process a bunch of separate message files?
  • Can I tell MHonArc to read a mailbox from standard input?

• Archives
  • Why does a message get split into mulitple messages with no headers?
  • Can I move a message from one archive to another?
  • Can I reconstruct a database from the HTML messages?
  • Is it safe to add messages to an archive as they are received?
  • So it is safe. How do I do it??
  • Can I get MHonArc to filter messages to different archives?
  • Is it safe to specify -add when no archive exists?
  • Why are there "jumps" in message numbers?
  • Why do some messages get re-added each time MHonArc processes a mail folder

• Index Pages
  • What are all the different index types?
  • Can I have additional indexes beyond the default main and thread index?
  • Can I have multi-page indexes?
  • Can I sort messages by author?

• Message Pages
  • Can I change the order the message resources are printed?
  • How can I change how message headers gets formatted?
  • How can I change how message body data gets formatted?
  • Can I have the message header come after the body?
  • Can I make changes to message formatting on existing archived messages?
  • What are those "<!--X-... -->"?

• Threading
  • How does threading work?
  • Why isn't threading working for me?
  • How can I get my MUA to define the References or In-Reply-To field?

• MIME
  • What is MIME?
  • Does MHonArc support message header extensions for non-ASCII text
  • How can I get MHonArc to recognize content-types it states it does not recognize?
  • Can I override the default filters in MHonArc
  • Can I override the multipart/* processing of MHonArc

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Copyright © 1997, Earl Hood, ehood@medusa.acs.uci.edu