New install question

[Peter Kerns <kerns@curis.com>]

I have just begun looking at MHonArc as a possible way to provide a 
'mail server / client / platform' independent way to browse the email 
of departed employees.

As employees leave the company, we currently put their message store on 
one or more CDs.  I would prefer to place an HTML structured / 
browseable copy on the CDs.

I installed mhonarc and am having difficutly getting the marilarchive 
built.  It seems that the program is not parsing the messages properly 
and I'm not sure what I need to do to adjust the program.  I am also 
not sure that I am dealing with nested folders properly.

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The first thing I tried:
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#mhonarc /path/to/users/maildirectory
This is MHonArc v2.6.6, Perl 5.006 darwin
Converting messages to .
Reading /path/to/users/maildirectory .
Warning: Could not parse date for message
         Message-Id: <2300.1060109180.0@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org>
.
Warning: Could not parse date for message
         Message-Id: <2300.1060109180.1@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org>
.
Warning: Could not parse date for message
         Message-Id: <2300.1060109180.2@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org>


Writing mail ...
Writing ./maillist.html ...
Writing ./threads.html ...
Writing database ...
3 new messages
3 total messages

---I think the 3 files that it errored on were the iPlanet indes files.

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The second attempt
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#mhonarc -mhpattern "^[^.]" /path/to/users/maildirectory
This is MHonArc v2.6.6, Perl 5.006 darwin
Converting messages to .
Reading /path/to/users/maildirectory .
Warning: Could not parse date for message
         Message-Id: <2288.1060108585.0@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org>
.
Warning: Could not parse date for message
         Message-Id: <2288.1060108585.1@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org>
.
Warning: Could not parse date for message
         Message-Id: <2288.1060108585.2@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org>
....
Error repeated many times.
It created 22 files, there are 100s.

The message server is iPlanet Message Server 5.0 and the mail is stored 
as individual mail files in a hashed directory structure.  I'll give 
some examples of the data:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is an example of a users directory structure:
------------------------------------------------------------------
drwxrwxrwx   53 kerns  staff    1802 Apr  4  2002 48
drwxrwxrwx  102 kerns  staff    3468 Apr  4  2002 49
drwxrwxrwx   99 kerns  staff    3366 Apr  4  2002 50
drwxrwxrwx    7 kerns  staff     238 Apr  4  2002 =+Folder+One
drwxrwxrwx    5 kerns  staff     170 Apr  4  2002 =+Folder+Two
drwxrwxrwx    5 kerns  staff     170 Apr  4  2002 =+Folder+Three
drwxrwxrwx    5 kerns  staff     170 Apr  4  2002 =+Drafts
drwxrwxrwx    4 kerns  staff     136 Apr  4  2002 =+Sent
drwxrwxrwx    4 kerns  staff     136 Apr  4  2002 =+Trash
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kerns  staff  507044 Mar  7  2002 store.idx
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kerns  staff     418 Jun 28  2001 store.sub
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kerns  staff      44 Aug 30  2001 store.usr

Inside each named folder are more hashed directories like the first 3 
above, and messages inside each.
Messages list like this:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff     2137 Feb 15  2002 5082.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff     2779 Feb 19  2002 5083.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff    14270 Feb 19  2002 5084.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff   557036 Feb 21  2002 5085.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff   844854 Feb 21  2002 5086.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff    14256 Feb 22  2002 5087.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff    12846 Feb 25  2002 5088.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff     2207 Feb 25  2002 5089.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff     2424 Feb 27  2002 5090.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff     2235 Feb 27  2002 5091.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff    10302 Feb 28  2002 5092.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff     5446 Mar  5  2002 5093.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff    77288 Mar  5  2002 5094.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff     2012 Mar  6  2002 5095.msg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kerns  staff     5888 Mar  7  2002 5096.msg
------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is an example of a message header:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Return-path: <D-5-728211-4517605-2-4066-US1-6D17F9A8@domain.com>
Received: from mailhost.domain.com
 (mailhost.domain.com [205.183.255.164])
 by ossipee.curis.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 
14
 2000)) with ESMTP id <0GSL00M09YJLXW@ossipee.curis.com> for 
user@ims-ms-daemon
 (ORCPT user@curis.com); Thu, 07 Mar 2002 09:50:13 -0500 (EST)
Content-return: prohibited
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 09:49:54 -0500
From: Sender Name <sender@domain.com>
Subject: Enter the Grand Giveaway
To: user@curis.com
Message-id: <I-1-728211-4517605-2-4066-US1-D6873BA4@domain.com>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative; 
Boundary=MEboundary-4517605-7-1015512417

--MEboundary-4517605-7-1015512417
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
------------------------------------------------------------------

There is a lot of info in this message.  Sorry.  I was trying to give a 
complete picture.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Peter Kerns
kerns@curis.com

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