<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>MHonArc v2.4 -- Introduction</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY background="ssbg75.jpg" text="#000000" link="#0000ee" vlink="#551a8b" alink="ff0000"> <!--X-NavButtons-Start--> <p align=center> <img src="blank.gif" border=0 alt="[Prev]"><a href="install.html"><img src="next.gif" border=0 alt="[Next]"></a><a href="mhonarc.html"><img src="up.gif" border=0 alt="[TOC]"></a><a href="faq/faq.html"><img src="faq.gif" border=0 alt="[FAQ]"></a><a href="app-bugs.html"><img src="bug.gif" border=0 alt="[Bugs]"></a><a href="http://www.mhonarc.org/"><img src="home.gif" border=0 alt="[Home]"></a> </p> <!--X-NavButtons-End--> <HR> <H1><a name="intro">Introduction</a></H1> <!--X-TOC-Start--> <ul> <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> </ul> <!--X-TOC-End--> <hr> <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> <UL> <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. </UL> <P>Along with these tasks, MHonArc provides the following: </P> <UL> <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. </UL> <hr> <H2><a name="whyuse">Why Use MHonArc?</a></H2> <P>Here are some reasons for using MHonArc: </P> <UL> <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> <hr> <H2><a name="platforms">Supported Platforms</a></H2> <P>MHonArc will run under systems systems with Perl 5 installed. </P> <hr> <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/"><http://www.mhonarc.org/></A>. </P> <HR> <!--X-NavButtons-Start--> <p align=center> <img src="blank.gif" border=0 alt="[Prev]"><a href="install.html"><img src="next.gif" border=0 alt="[Next]"></a><a href="mhonarc.html"><img src="up.gif" border=0 alt="[TOC]"></a><a href="faq/faq.html"><img src="faq.gif" border=0 alt="[FAQ]"></a><a href="app-bugs.html"><img src="bug.gif" border=0 alt="[Bugs]"></a><a href="http://www.mhonarc.org/"><img src="home.gif" border=0 alt="[Home]"></a> </p> <!--X-NavButtons-End--> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <address> 01/06/10 17:47:40<br> <img align="top" src="monicon.gif" alt=""> <a href="http://www.mhonarc.org/" ><strong>MHonArc</strong></a><br> Copyright © 1997-2000, <a href="http://www.mhonarc.org/~ehood/" >Earl Hood</a>, <a href="mailto:mhonarc@mhonarc.org" >mhonarc@mhonarc.org</a><br> </address> </BODY> </HTML>