Last Updated: $Date: 2003/07/16 00:49:58 $ mharc What is mharc? Availability CVS Access Examples Support

 What is mharc?

mharc is part of the MHonArc Project. mharc is a collection of Perl scripts for generating and managing web-based searchable mail archives.

A hurdle in setting up robust mail archives is configuring the various tools (pre-processor, mail converter, search engine, et.al.) to work in tandem, which generally requires programming and system administration skills. mharc eliminates this time consuming and often frustrating task by providing the following features:

• Automatic processing of incoming mail (via Procmail).
• Support for multiple archives for multiple lists.
• Archives organized by monthly or yearly time periods.
• Full-text searching (via Namazu).
• Raw mail archives to complement, and backup, the HTML-based archives.
• Page layout customization (via MHonArc).
• Apache HTTP server configuration files for controling access to your archives.

mharc configuration is driven by simple editable configuration files. No need to become a master with Procmail recipes or learn how to invoke and configure a search engine. The default archive page layout provides improved readability, easy, but powerful, archive navigation, and a stylesheet to control the visual appearance of pages, eliminating the need to define numerous MHonArc resources (but you still can if you really want to).

 Availability

mharc is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

You can download mharc from the following locations:

• <http://www.mhonarc.org/release/mharc/tar/> (USA)
• <http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/mhonarc/> (FSF)

CVS Access

Anonymous CVS access is available at <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/mhonarc/>.

 Examples

• mhonarc.org mail archives:
  <http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/>
• mail.gnu.org archives:
  <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/>
• riverside.org archives:
  <http://www.riverside.org/archive/html/>
• exmh archives:
  <http://mercea.net/~exmh/>

 Support

• Installation Instructions: How to install and configure mharc.
• Mailing Lists & Contacts: Where to send mail, get help, and list archives.
• Tool Docs: Manpages of the scripts and modules comprising mharc.
• Version: mharc version number this documentation is associated with.
• Revision History: Change summaries and release notes of mharc releases.
• TODO List: List of items that would probably be useful to do.