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<H1><a name="intro">Introduction</a></H1>

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<li><a href="#whatis">What is MHonArc?</a>
<li><a href="#whyuse">Why Use MHonArc?</a>
<li><a href="#platforms">Supported Platforms</a>
<li><a href="#availability">Availability</a>
<li><a href="#license">License</a>
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<H2><a name="whatis">What is MHonArc?</a></H2>

<P>MHonArc is a <A HREF="http://perl.com/perl/">Perl</A>
program for converting e-mail messages as specified in RFC 822 and
<A HREF="http://www.pobox.com/~ehood/MIME/MIME.html">the
MIME standard</A> to <A
HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/">HTML</A>.
MHonArc can perform the following tasks: </P>

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<LI>Convert <a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/"><em>MH</em></a>
mail folders or UUCP/Unix style mailboxes into an HTML mail archive.
<LI>Add or remove messages to an existing HTML mail archive generated
by MHonArc.
<LI>Convert a single message to HTML.
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<P>Along with these tasks, MHonArc provides the following:
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<LI>A main customizable index for mail messages archived.
<LI>A customizable thread index listing messages by thread.
<LI>Control over message formatting.
<LI>The ability to hook in your own custom message filters.
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<H2><a name="whyuse">Why Use MHonArc?</a></H2>

<P>Here are some reasons for using MHonArc:
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<LI>You want to keep organized archives
of mail messages and/or news articles for a <A
HREF="http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html">World Wide
Web</A> (WWW) server; complete with live hypertext pointers
to their authors and to any url's mentioned.

<LI>You would like to control the layout of mail/news archives to
keep a consistent style to your WWW pages.

<LI>You have MIME messages that you want to include in your archives.

<LI>You have a WWW client, but no MIME mail reader. MHonArc
will allow you to read MIME messages that includes images, audio,
video, etc via your Web client.

<LI>Multi-platform support: Unix, Windows, MacOS, etc.  Basically,
MHonArc should be usable
on any platform that Perl has been ported to.

<LI>You think the MHonArc logo is really cool, and it deserves
to be used.

<LI>You like Perl, and you want to see what it can do.

<LI>Just cuz.
</UL>

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<H2><a name="platforms">Supported Platforms</a></H2>

<P>MHonArc will run under systems systems with Perl 5 installed.
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<H2><a name="availability">Availability</a></H2>

<P>The latest information on MHonArc, where to get more help,
and its availability, may be obtained at
<A HREF="http://www.mhonarc.org/">&lt;http://www.mhonarc.org/&gt;</A>.
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<h2><a name="license">License</a></H2>

<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the
<a href="COPYING">GNU General Public License</a> as published by
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>;
either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but <b>WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY</b>; without even the implied warranty of
<b>MERCHANTABILITY</b> or <b>FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE</b>.  See the
<a href="COPYING">GNU General Public License</a> for more details.
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$Date: 2001/12/24 14:38:07 $ <br>
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<a href="http://www.mhonarc.org/"
><strong>MHonArc</strong></a><br>
Copyright &#169; 1997-2000, <a href="http://www.mhonarc.org/~ehood/"
>Earl Hood</a>, <a href="mailto:mhonarc@mhonarc.org"
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