- Here is the explicit order of decreasing precedence when setting
resources/options:
- command-line options (highest precedence)
- resource file
- database file
- environment variables (lowest precedence)
- Mail thread detection is dependent upon the mail messages containing the
message id(s) of referenced messages. Most mailers reply function will
automatically include the message id of the message being replied to.
- All mail message being converted into HTML are stored in memory before
they are written to disk. This can eat up much memory if many mail
messages are being converted. If you are processing multiple
mailboxes/folders and worried about memory, you can call MHonArc on
each one separately using the
-add
option.
- The database file, and the index page, are completely rewritten evertime
new messages are added. This may cause slight slow-downs when
archives become very large.
- In MH mode (the default), mail messages are assumed to have numeric
filenames in the mail folder.
- When sorting by date, MHonArc tries to use the date listed in the first
Received field of the message. If no Received field exists, than the Date field
is used.
- No distinction is made, in the output, on which messages came from
which mail folder/box if multiple mail folders/boxes are processed.
- MHonArc requires the use of
timelocal.pl
and newgetopt.pl
. These
libraries are part of the normal Perl distribution.
- MHonArc can probably be modified to handle other types of mailers
(which has been done since the original version only supported MH mail
folders). The
MSGSEP
resource gives flexibility in processing mailbox style
files.
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