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?
  • What restrictions are there on MHonArc usage?
  • Where can I get help on MHonArc?
  • How does MHonArc compare to other email archivers, like Hypermail?
  • Why I should use MHonArc over some of the Internet-based mailing list archive services?
  • Are their "real-world" examples of MHonArc usage?
  • Why are list archives about Perl-related topics not maintained with a Perl-based program, like MHonArc?
  • Is MHonArc Y2K (Year 2000) compliant?

• Supported Environments
  • What platforms can MHonArc run under?
  • What about Mac?
  • What about VMS?
  • What version of Perl is required to run MHonArc?
  • What mail user agents (MUA's) does MHonarc support?
  • Can MHonArc process Majordomo digests?
  • Can MHonArc process Listprocessor archives?
  • Can MHonArc process ezmlm archives?
  • Can MHonArc process qmail's maildir style mail folders?
  • Can MHonArc process Netscape Messenger folders?
  • Can MHonArc process Evolution folders?
  • Can MHonArc process Compuserve messages?
  • What about other mailbox/folder formats?
  • Can MHonArc create non-English archives?
  • Can I create bilingual archives?
  • Does MHonArc support Unicode?

• General Usage
  • What are "resources"?
  • Is there a resource file editor?
  • How do you set a resource to nil?
  • How do I reset an archive's resources to the default values?
  • 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?
  • Why am I getting "Could not parse date for message ..."?
  • Why doesn't MHonArc extract the date from "From ..." line?
  • Why is the number of messages reported by MHonArc less than what is reported by my MUA?

• 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??
  • How can I do it with Majordomo lists?
  • Can I get MHonArc to filter messages to different archives?
  • Does MHonArc support the "no archive" flag in messages?
  • 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?
  • How do I remove messages from an archive?
  • Can I convert an archive back to mailbox format?

• 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?
  • How does the OTHERINDEXES resource work?
  • Can I include links to message attachments on index pages?

• 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-... -->"?
  • Are those "<!--X-... -->" legal comments?

• 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?
  • Why are attachments saved as a ".bin" files?
  • Can attachments get saved with the filename specified in the message header?
  • Can the <PRE> tags be removed from converted messages?
  • Can long lines be wrapped in converted messages?
  • Can I exclude specific media-types?
  • Can I tell MHonArc to use the text/plain part over a text/html part in a multipart/alternative message?

• Security
  • Can I obscure email addresses?
  • How can I prevent web access to .mhonarc.db files?
  • Why are HTML messages a security risk?
  • Why doesn't MHonArc, by default, use the specified filename when saving attachments?

$Date: 2002/07/20 00:48:48 $
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