Re: mhn2mbox and v2.5.4

[<anthonyw@albany.net>]

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have successfully used mhn2mbox 
> (http://www.albany.net/~anthonyw/mhonarc/mhn2mbox) with MHonArc v2.4.6 
> to convert archives back to mbox format. Thanks, Anthony, for this 
> program! However, when I had upgraded to MHonArc v2.5.4, I noticed that 
> the message separators in the pseudo mbox didn't include email addresses 
> any longer.
> 
> The reason seems to be that mhn2mbox makes use of the subroutine 
> "mhonarc::extract_email_address()", which in the latest MHonArc version 
> is dependent on the variable $AddrExp (set in mhinit.pl) to work.
> 
> I fixed it by adding
> 
>    mhonarc::get_resources();
> 
> right after "mhonarc::initialize();" in mhn2mbox.
> 
> I call your attention to this, since there might be other, more 
> important, shortcomings when using mhn2mbox with the latest MHonArc version.
> 
> / Gunnar
> 

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have changed the script
accordingly. 


> 
> 

Regards, 

AnthonyW