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- [Image]MHonArc
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- An E-mail-to-HTML converter
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- Contents
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- * What's New
- * What is MHonArc?
- * Why Use MHonArc?
- * Examples
- * Availability
- * More Information
- * Open bugs
- * Extras
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- What's New
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- What's New last Updated: Thu Apr 20 15:59:16 PDT 1995
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- MHonArc 1.1 is now available. New features include:
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- * Run on Unix or MS-DOS platforms
- * Thread index
- * Remove messages from an archive
- * List contents of archive to standard out
- * Restrict size of an archive
- * Detection of already archive messages during add operation
- * More customization features
- * Added more variables for use in user defined mailto URLs
- * Bug fixes
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- What is MHonArc?
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- MHonArc is the successor of mail2html, a Perl mail-to-HTML converter.
- MHonArc works in a very simliar manner as mail2html (HTML mail archiving
- with index, mail thread linking, etc), but with much more capabilities
- including full support for MIME, as defined in RFC 1521, and powerful user
- customization features..
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- Why Use MHonArc?
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- Here are some reasons for using MHonArc:
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- * You want to keep organized archives of mail messages and/or news
- articles for a World Wide Web (WWW) server; complete with live
- hypertext pointers to their authors and to any url's mentioned.
- * You would like to control the layout of mail/news archives to keep a
- consistent style to your WWW pages.
- * 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.
- * Muli-platform support: MS-DOS and Unix.
- * You think the MHonArc logo is really cool, and it deserves to be used.
- * You like Perl, and you want to see what it can do.
- * Just cuz.
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- Examples
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- To see the type of output generated by MHonArc, check out the sample
- archive of some newsgroup posts from comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi.
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- MIME
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- MHonArc can handle MIME encoded messages. See an example MIME message
- processed.
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- Availability
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- Unix
- The latest version of MHonArc is 1.1. You can get MHonArc in
- tar-gzipped file via HTTP or FTP (199889 bytes).
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- MS-DOS
- MHonArc for MS-DOS is available in a ZIP file via HTTP or FTP (244002
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- Special Note for MS-DOS users:
- o IMPORTANT: You must preserve the subdirectory structure of the
- .zip archive when unzipping MHonArc. Use the -d option if you are
- using pkunzip.
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- More Information
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- To get the complete lo-down on MHonArc, read the documentation that is
- included in the distribution.
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- Open Bugs
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- Bug list last updated: Thu Aug 17 13:53:28 PDT 1995
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- List of open bugs for version 1.1:
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- * The month is off by -1 of the real month in the -scan output.
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- * The following example invocations are incorrect in the Synopsis
- section of the Overview:
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- % mhonarc -add [options] < mhfolder ...
- % mhonarc -add -mbox [options] < mailbox
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- The previous will not work, and may cause unexpected results.
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- * Message IDs with single quotes causes the .mhonarc.db to contain
- illegal Perl code, leading to subsequent add operations to fail.
- Basically, the single quotes are not escaped properly for keys of an
- associative array.
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- * Spaces are not escaped properly when custom mailto URL is defined.
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- Extras
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- HtmlMail
- Program to pipe a mail/news message to a WWW client. See comments at
- beginning of source file on how to use it.
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- MosaicMail
- A Perl program to load in a mail message into an existing Mosaic for X
- session. MHonArc is called to do the actual mail-to-HTML conversion.
- MosaicMail can also be used to pipe newsgroup posts into Mosaic from
- your newsreader. Handy for making URLs hyperlinked, or processing MIME
- posts.
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- Earl Hood <ehood@convex.com>
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