Re: Looking for someone to get MHonArc working...

[Antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Medhamsh,

I run LetterRip Pro on a Mac G5 machine. mhonarc itself is run on a Linux machine (along with the web server).

Out of curiosity, i sit possible to run mhonarc on a Mac OS X server?

Best wishes

Tony


On 14 Nov 2011, at 9:47AM, Medhamsh V wrote:

> Hi Antony,
> 
> 
> 
> On 13 November 2011 15:52,  <Antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I manage the actual mail server on a machine at home (Mac) and messages that
>> go to the forum are sent to e.g. hm0001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (which is the
> 
> Can I just know what mail server you run?
> 
>> 
>> John moved the site  to a new virtual server in November and since then the
>> archives have not worked. I guess the server needs configuration so that
>> mail send to hm0001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx , hm0002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx etc get sent
>> to MHonArc for processing.
> 
> What mailing list manager are you using? This makes me clear about the way
> lists are managed and the way archives can be stored.
> 
>> The server was also set up to only accept emails sent from my machine so
>> that it could not be spammed (not sure if this was done using the IP address
>> of my machine at home?).
> 
> Probably it has been configured as whitelist and blocklists rules.
> 
>> I am looking for the following to be done:
>> 
>> 1) Update MHonArc to current version (2.6.18) and update Perl.
>> 2) Update Perl - I think much of what is done is via Perl scripts
>> (http://www.mhonarc.org/mharc/doc/)
> 
> There is ample documentation for this and I would help you doing this.
> 
>> 3) Get messages to start archiving again (not sure what needs to get set up
>> on the server)
> 
> A cron job with mhonarc can do this. Pretty straight forward way.
> 
>> 4) It would also be useful if the archiving could be set up so that
>> superfluous message headers did not show ie only "To", "Subject", "From" and
>> "Date".
> 
> This can be handled by tweaking things in .mrc file.
> 
>> 5) Instructions on how I can modify appearance of pages.
> 
> I am very poor at this. You probably need a css file and use an index.html
> and internally pull the mail messages.
> 
>> 6) Instructions on how I filter emails according to year ie what I need to
>> do at the start of each year
> 
> This can be achieved.
> 
>> 7) Instructions on how I ensure only emails sent from my machine are
>> archived
> 
> Mails sent to a particular list can be archived. Isnt this what you want?
> 
>> 8) Brief notes to show me how to do the above so that I can maintain going
>> forward
> 
> Sure.
> 
> By the way, Are you running everything on Macintosh operating system?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Medhamsh,
> hacker-@-pascal-labs
> International Institute of Information Technology
> Gachibowli
> Hyderabad
>