MhonArc users;
Announce mhn2mbox: A MHonArc to "mbox" Converter
Overview
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mhn2mbox is a Perl script for converting html files generated by MHonArc
back into a pseudo mbox format.
Versions:
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Official version: 0.3
http://www.albany.net/~anthonyw/archivedemo/mhn2mbox
Beta version: 0.35
http://www.albany.net/~anthonyw/archivedemo/mhn2mbox-0.3
Prerequisites
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A program for converting a file to BASE64. The script currently uses the
mmencode program which is available on Linux platforms.
Installation and Configuration
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Copy the script to your computer and change the line which reads
"use lib '......' ; Library where MhonArc libs"
so that it reflects where your installation of MHonArc stores its library
files.
HINT: Look at the second line of the mhonarc command line script.
ChangeLog
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22-Nov-2000
Initial cut of the script. Derived from h2mbox.pl and mhmsgfile.pl
29-Nov-2000
Changed script to write to a named ouput file rather than to STDOUT
Use "strict".
Known Bugs
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- Nested messages within a MHonArc file are left as flat messages in the
converted mbox file.
- Script uses up lots of memory when working on large numbers of messages
or very large messages.
- The new mbox file is seen as one large file by Pine.
Other Notes
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If you are working with messages which have 8 bit information in the body
of the messages, you will want to modify the script to detect this
and for those messages print out the following MIME header:
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
... rather than the default headers that the script prints.
Acknowledgments
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Erik Rossen <rossen(_at_)freesurf(_dot_)ch> - Tested out the script and
suggested a
number of changes.
Earl Hood <mhonarc(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> - Author of MHonArc
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Regards,
AnthonyW
