Announce: mhn2mbox - A MhonArc to "mbox" Converter

[anthonyw <anthonyw@albany.net>]

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
------------------------------

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@freesurf.ch> - Tested out the script and suggested a
				    number of changes. 

 Earl Hood  <mhonarc@pobox.com>	  - Author of MHonArc


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Regards,

AnthonyW