MHonArc -- Introduction

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# Introduction

MHonArc is a Perl program for converting e-mail messages as specified in RFC 822 and the MIME standard to HTML. MHonArc can perform the following tasks:

- Convert MH mail folders or UUCP/Unix style mailboxes into an HTML mail archive.
- Add or remove messages to an existing HTML mail archive generated by MHonArc.
- Convert a single message to HTML.

Along with these tasks, MHonArc provides the following:

- A main customizable index for mail messages archived.
- A customizable thread index listing messages by thread.
- Control over message formatting.
- The ability to hook in your own custom message filters.

## Why Use MHonArc?

Here are some reasons for using MHonArc:

- 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 MIME messages that you want to include in your archives.
- 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.
- Multi-platform support: Unix, Windows, MacOS, etc. Basically, MHonArc should be usable on any platform that Perl has been ported to.
- 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.
- You need a mail archiving utility that can work under Perl 4 and 5.
- Just cuz.

## Supported Platforms

MHonArc (version 1.1, and later) will run under systems systems with Perl 4 or 5 installed. Perl 5 is recommended, and maybe required for proper execution on some systems.

## Availability

The latest information on MHonArc, where to get more help, and its availability, may be obtained at (http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html).

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