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<P>This documents contains answers to some of the frequently
asked question on MHonArc. MHonArc is
a
<A HREF=
"http://language.perl.com/">Perl
</A> program
for converting e-mail messages as specified in RFC
822 and
<A
HREF=
"http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/MIME.html">MIME
</a> to
<A
HREF=
"http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html">HTML
</A>.
MHonArc has the ability to maintain an archive of converted
messages, or it can be used as a basic e-mail-
>HTML converter.
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<H2><a name=
"toc">Table of Contents
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<li><a name=
"aboutfaq" href=
"about.html">About the FAQ
</a>
<li><a name=
"summary" href=
"about.html#summary">Summary
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"defs" href=
"about.html#defs">Terms and Definitions
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"version" href=
"about.html#version">Version
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"location" href=
"about.html#location">Location
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"author" href=
"about.html#author">Author
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"general" href=
"general.html">General
</a>
<li><a name=
"whatis" href=
"general.html#whatis">What is MHonArc?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"mhversion" href=
"general.html#mhversion">What's the latest version of MhonArc?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"get" href=
"general.html#get">Where can I get MHonArc?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"cost" href=
"general.html#cost">What restrictions are there on MHonArc usage?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"help" href=
"general.html#help">Where can I get help on MHonArc?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"compare" href=
"general.html#compare">How does MHonArc compare to other email archivers, like Hypermail?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"vscommercial" href=
"general.html#vscommercial">Why I should use MHonArc over some of the Internet-based mailing list archive services?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"studies" href=
"general.html#studies">Are their
"real-world" examples of MHonArc usage?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"whynonperl" href=
"general.html#whynonperl">Why are list archives about Perl-related topics not maintained with a Perl-based program, like MHonArc?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"y2k" href=
"general.html#y2k">Is MHonArc Y2K (Year
2000) compliant?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"supenvs" href=
"envs.html">Supported Environments
</a>
<li><a name=
"platforms" href=
"envs.html#platforms">What platforms can MHonArc run under?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"mac" href=
"envs.html#mac">What about Mac?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"vms" href=
"envs.html#vms">What about VMS?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"perl" href=
"envs.html#perl">What version of Perl is required to run MHonArc?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"muas" href=
"envs.html#muas">What mail user agents (MUA's) does MHonarc support?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"mdomodigests" href=
"envs.html#mdomodigests">Can MHonArc process Majordomo digests?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"listprocessor" href=
"envs.html#listprocessor">Can MHonArc process Listprocessor archives?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"ezmlm" href=
"envs.html#ezmlm">Can MHonArc process ezmlm archives?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"maildir" href=
"envs.html#maildir">Can MHonArc process qmail's maildir style mail folders?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"netscape" href=
"envs.html#netscape">Can MHonArc process Netscape Messenger folders?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"evolution" href=
"envs.html#evolution">Can MHonArc process Evolution folders?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"compuserve" href=
"envs.html#compuserve">Can MHonArc process Compuserve messages?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"otherformats" href=
"envs.html#otherformats">What about other mailbox/folder formats?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"nonenglish" href=
"envs.html#nonenglish">Can MHonArc create non-English archives?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"bilingual" href=
"envs.html#bilingual">Can I create bilingual archives?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"unicode" href=
"envs.html#unicode">Does MHonArc support Unicode?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"genusage" href=
"usage.html">General Usage
</a>
<li><a name=
"resources" href=
"usage.html#resources">What are
"resources"?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"rfileedit" href=
"usage.html#rfileedit">Is there a resource file editor?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"nilresource" href=
"usage.html#nilresource">How do you set a resource to nil?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"todefaults" href=
"usage.html#todefaults">How do I reset an archive's resources to the default values?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"newgetopt" href=
"usage.html#newgetopt">I get an error that
"newgetopt.pl" cannot be required, where is it?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"searching" href=
"usage.html#searching">Does MHonArc provide searching of archives?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"webui" href=
"usage.html#webui">Is there a Web interface for MHonArc?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"orgmsg" href=
"usage.html#orgmsg">Does MHonArc require that the original message be available when updating an archive?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"respecify" href=
"usage.html#respecify">Do I have to respecify the resource file each time I update an archive?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"sepfiles" href=
"usage.html#sepfiles">Can I have MHonArc process a bunch of separate message files?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"stdin" href=
"usage.html#stdin">Can I tell MHonArc to read a mailbox from standard input?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"parsedate" href=
"usage.html#parsedate">Why am I getting
"Could not parse date for message ..."?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"parsedate" href=
"usage.html#parsedate">Why doesn't MHonArc extract the date from
"From ..." line?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"count" href=
"usage.html#count">Why is the number of messages reported by MHonArc less than what is reported by my MUA?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"archives" href=
"archives.html">Archives
</a>
<li><a name=
"split" href=
"archives.html#split">Why does a message get split into mulitple messages with no headers?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"move" href=
"archives.html#move">Can I move a message from one archive to another?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"reconstruct" href=
"archives.html#reconstruct">Can I reconstruct a database from the HTML messages?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"dynamic" href=
"archives.html#dynamic">Is it safe to add messages to an archive as they are received?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"forward" href=
"archives.html#forward">So it is safe. How do I do it??
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"majordomo" href=
"archives.html#majordomo">How can I do it with Majordomo lists?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"different" href=
"archives.html#different">Can I get MHonArc to filter messages to different archives?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"exclude" href=
"archives.html#exclude">Does MHonArc support the
"no archive" flag in messages?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"addsafe" href=
"archives.html#addsafe">Is it safe to specify
<tt>-add
</tt> when no archive exists?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"jumps" href=
"archives.html#jumps">Why are there
"jumps" in message numbers?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"dups" href=
"archives.html#dups">Why do some messages get re-added each time MHonArc processes a mail folder?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"remove" href=
"archives.html#remove">How do I remove messages from an archive?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"tombox" href=
"archives.html#tombox">Can I convert an archive back to mailbox format?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"indexpages" href=
"indexpgs.html">Index Pages
</a>
<li><a name=
"idxtypes" href=
"indexpgs.html#idxtypes">What are all the different index types?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"additional" href=
"indexpgs.html#additional">Can I have additional indexes beyond the default main and thread index?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"multipage" href=
"indexpgs.html#multipage">Can I have multi-page indexes?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"authorsort" href=
"indexpgs.html#authorsort">Can I sort messages by author?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"otherindexes" href=
"indexpgs.html#otherindexes">How does the OTHERINDEXES resource work?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"attachments" href=
"indexpgs.html#attachments">Can I include links to message attachments on index pages?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"messagepages" href=
"msgpgs.html">Message Pages
</a>
<li><a name=
"msgorder" href=
"msgpgs.html#msgorder">Can I change the order the message resources are printed?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"msghead" href=
"msgpgs.html#msghead">How can I change how message headers gets formatted?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"msgbody" href=
"msgpgs.html#msgbody">How can I change how message body data gets formatted?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"headnbody" href=
"msgpgs.html#headnbody">Can I have the message header come after the body?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"msgbody" href=
"msgpgs.html#msgbody">Can I make changes to message formatting on existing archived messages?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"msgcomms" href=
"msgpgs.html#msgcomms">What are those
"<!--X-... -->"?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"commslegal" href=
"msgpgs.html#commslegal">Are those
"<!--X-... -->" legal comments?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"threading" href=
"threads.html">Threading
</a>
<li><a name=
"howthreads" href=
"threads.html#howthreads">How does threading work?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"whynotthreads" href=
"threads.html#whynotthreads">Why isn't threading working for me?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"refsinmua" href=
"threads.html#refsinmua">How can I get my MUA to define the References or In-Reply-To field?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"mime" href=
"mime.html">MIME
</a>
<li><a name=
"whatismime" href=
"mime.html#whatismime">What is MIME?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"nonascii" href=
"mime.html#nonascii">Does MHonArc support message header extensions for non-ASCII text?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"howtorecog" href=
"mime.html#howtorecog">How can I get MHonArc to recognize content-types it states it does not recognize?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"overridedefs" href=
"mime.html#overridedefs">Can I override the default filters in MHonArc?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"overridemulti" href=
"mime.html#overridemulti">Can I override the multipart/* processing of MHonArc?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"badtype" href=
"mime.html#badtype">Why are attachments saved as a
".bin" files?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"filenames" href=
"mime.html#filenames">Can attachments get saved with the filename specified in the message header?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"removepre" href=
"mime.html#removepre">Can the
<PRE
> tags be removed from converted messages?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"lineclip" href=
"mime.html#lineclip">Can long lines be wrapped in converted messages?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"exclude" href=
"mime.html#exclude">Can I exclude specific media-types?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"alternative" href=
"mime.html#alternative">Can I tell MHonArc to use the text/plain part over a text/html part in a multipart/alternative message?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"security" href=
"security.html">Security
</a>
<li><a name=
"spam" href=
"security.html#spam">Can I obscure email addresses?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"spam" href=
"security.html#spam">How can I prevent web access to
<tt>.mhonarc.db
</tt> files?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"htmldata" href=
"security.html#htmldata">Why are HTML messages a security risk?
</a></li>
<li><a name=
"attachments" href=
"security.html#attachments">Why doesn't MHonArc, by default, use the specified filename when saving attachments?
</a></li>
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$Date:
2002/
07/
20 00:
48:
48 $
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Copyright
© 1997-
1999,
<a href=
"http://www.earlhood.com/"
>Earl Hood
</a>,
<a href=
"mailto:mhonarc@mhonarc.org"
>mhonarc@mhonarc.org
</a><br>