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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 mail messages as specified in RFC 822 and <A
HREF="http://www.mhonarc.org/~ehood/MIME/">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 mail->HTML converter. </P>
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<li><a name="aboutfaq" href="about.html">About the FAQ</a>
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<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>
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<li><a name="general" href="general.html">General</a>
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<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>
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<li><a name="supenvs" href="envs.html">Supported Environments</a>
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<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="japanese" href="envs.html#japanese">How about Japanese?</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>
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<li><a name="genusage" href="usage.html">General Usage</a>
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<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>
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<li><a name="archives" href="archives.html">Archives</a>
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<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>
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<li><a name="indexpages" href="indexpgs.html">Index Pages</a>
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<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>
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<li><a name="messagepages" href="msgpgs.html">Message Pages</a>
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<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="chngmesgfmt" href="msgpgs.html#chngmesgfmt">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="removingmsgfooters" href="msgpgs.html#removingmsgfooters">Can I have footers removed from messages when archived?</a></li>
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<li><a name="threading" href="threads.html">Threading</a>
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<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>
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<li><a name="mime" href="mime.html">MIME</a>
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<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="excattach" href="mime.html#excattach">How do I exclude attachments from my archives?</a></li>
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<li><a name="security" href="security.html">Security</a>
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<li><a name="contact" href="security.html#contact">Who do I contact if I find a vulnerability with MHonArc?</a></li>
<li><a name="spam" href="security.html#spam">Can I obscure email addresses?</a></li>
<li><a name="mhonarc_db" href="security.html#mhonarc_db">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="htmlexchow" href="security.html#htmlexchow">So how can I exclude HTML mail?</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>
<li><a name="suid" href="security.html#suid">Is it okay to run <tt>mhonarc</tt> setuid?</a></li>
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