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| 19 | <H1><a name="intro">Introduction</a></H1> |
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| 22 | <ul> |
| 23 | <li><a href="#whatis">What is MHonArc?</a> |
| 24 | <li><a href="#whyuse">Why Use MHonArc?</a> |
| 25 | <li><a href="#platforms">Supported Platforms</a> |
| 26 | <li><a href="#availability">Availability</a> |
| 27 | <li><a href="#license">License</a> |
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| 32 | <H2><a name="whatis">What is MHonArc?</a></H2> |
| 33 | |
| 34 | <P>MHonArc is a <A HREF="http://perl.com/perl/">Perl</A> |
| 35 | program for converting e-mail messages as specified in RFC 822 and |
| 36 | <A HREF="http://www.pobox.com/~ehood/MIME/MIME.html">the |
| 37 | MIME standard</A> to <A |
| 38 | HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/">HTML</A>. |
| 39 | MHonArc can perform the following tasks: </P> |
| 40 | |
| 41 | <UL> |
| 42 | <LI>Convert <a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/"><em>MH</em></a> |
| 43 | mail folders or UUCP/Unix style mailboxes into an HTML mail archive. |
| 44 | <LI>Add or remove messages to an existing HTML mail archive generated |
| 45 | by MHonArc. |
| 46 | <LI>Convert a single message to HTML. |
| 47 | </UL> |
| 48 | |
| 49 | <P>Along with these tasks, MHonArc provides the following: |
| 50 | </P> |
| 51 | |
| 52 | <UL> |
| 53 | <LI>A main customizable index for mail messages archived. |
| 54 | <LI>A customizable thread index listing messages by thread. |
| 55 | <LI>Control over message formatting. |
| 56 | <LI>The ability to hook in your own custom message filters. |
| 57 | </UL> |
| 58 | |
| 59 | <hr> |
| 60 | <H2><a name="whyuse">Why Use MHonArc?</a></H2> |
| 61 | |
| 62 | <P>Here are some reasons for using MHonArc: |
| 63 | </P> |
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| 67 | <LI>You want to keep organized archives |
| 68 | of mail messages and/or news articles for a <A |
| 69 | HREF="http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html">World Wide |
| 70 | Web</A> (WWW) server; complete with live hypertext pointers |
| 71 | to their authors and to any url's mentioned. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | <LI>You would like to control the layout of mail/news archives to |
| 74 | keep a consistent style to your WWW pages. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | <LI>You have MIME messages that you want to include in your archives. |
| 77 | |
| 78 | <LI>You have a WWW client, but no MIME mail reader. MHonArc |
| 79 | will allow you to read MIME messages that includes images, audio, |
| 80 | video, etc via your Web client. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | <LI>Multi-platform support: Unix, Windows, MacOS, etc. Basically, |
| 83 | MHonArc should be usable |
| 84 | on any platform that Perl has been ported to. |
| 85 | |
| 86 | <LI>You think the MHonArc logo is really cool, and it deserves |
| 87 | to be used. |
| 88 | |
| 89 | <LI>You like Perl, and you want to see what it can do. |
| 90 | |
| 91 | <LI>Just cuz. |
| 92 | </UL> |
| 93 | |
| 94 | <hr> |
| 95 | <H2><a name="platforms">Supported Platforms</a></H2> |
| 96 | |
| 97 | <P>MHonArc will run under systems systems with Perl 5 installed. |
| 98 | </P> |
| 99 | |
| 100 | <hr> |
| 101 | <H2><a name="availability">Availability</a></H2> |
| 102 | |
| 103 | <P>The latest information on MHonArc, where to get more help, |
| 104 | and its availability, may be obtained at |
| 105 | <A HREF="http://www.mhonarc.org/"><http://www.mhonarc.org/></A>. |
| 106 | </P> |
| 107 | |
| 108 | <hr> |
| 109 | <h2><a name="license">License</a></H2> |
| 110 | |
| 111 | <p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| 112 | it under the terms of the |
| 113 | <a href="COPYING">GNU General Public License</a> as published by |
| 114 | the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>; |
| 115 | either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
| 116 | </p> |
| 117 | <p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| 118 | but <b>WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY</b>; without even the implied warranty of |
| 119 | <b>MERCHANTABILITY</b> or <b>FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE</b>. See the |
| 120 | <a href="COPYING">GNU General Public License</a> for more details. |
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| 133 | $Date: 2001/12/24 14:38:07 $ <br> |
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| 135 | <a href="http://www.mhonarc.org/" |
| 136 | ><strong>MHonArc</strong></a><br> |
| 137 | Copyright © 1997-2000, <a href="http://www.mhonarc.org/~ehood/" |
| 138 | >Earl Hood</a>, <a href="mailto:mhonarc@mhonarc.org" |
| 139 | >mhonarc@mhonarc.org</a><br> |
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