I've just started experimenting with MHonArc, and my immediate thought
was to try to build a CGI-based mail client using this. The idea is
that the messages would remain in MH folders, but the CGI script would
call mhonarc to generate HTML on-the-fly for each message. I don't need
a Web-accessible archive, and I don't need to keep the messages stored
in HTML format.
In addition, I'd like to have a browser frame to show the folder list, a
frame to show a message list, an optional frame for a MIME parts list,
etc. In short, this would look like a "real" mail client, except that
it would all be in a browser window.
So, my questions are:
1) Does anyone already have some tools for this? I didn't see anything
in my admittedly brief scan of the documentation.
2) When I convert single messages with:
mhonarc -single `mhpath cur` > $TEMP/mailmsg.html
the non-text MIME parts get put in my current working directly, but
the HTML references them in the $TEMP directory (I'm on Windows XP,
so it's C:\TEMP). This means non of the images, etc. show up in
the messages. Is this a known issue?
3) The process_input function of the API seems not to be geared for
processing single messages. I was not able to get the output to go
anywhere except stdout, even when calling from a Perl script. I
finally had to resort to:
$html = `mhonarc -single $curmsg`;
and then write the output to a file myself. Perhaps I'm
overlooking something, but I didn't see anything in the
documentation about how to direct the output to a file from within
a script.
Sorry for the barrage of questions. I've been using a variety of mail
readers on my MH mail (show, mutt, Sylpheed-Claws, MH-E), but I
haven't been truly satisfied with any of them, so I'd like to build a
replacement. MHonArc seems like a very good tool for the message
display portion of this.
Thank you.
-pd
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