Introduction

MHonArc is a tool that converts mail files to html ones.

Although that most mail clients (outlook, thunderbird) allow conversion feature, MHonArc can additionally assemble and link these mails together.

Installation

1) You download the tool from http://hydra.nac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html and specifically from [this address] [cached version].

2) Uncompress the file under any directory.

3) Launch the DOS command line.

1) Check that you have already Perl installed by issuing perl –version

If you find a similar result such as

'perl' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne

ou externe, un programme exécutable ou un fichier de commandes.

This means that you need to install also Perl on your machine available under this [link] [cached version].

2) Make yourself at the directory where you have decompressed MHonArch and launch following commands.

prompt> cd MHonArc-X.X.X

prompt> perl install.me

3) To confirm that MHonArch was correctly installed, launch MHonArc –v from any directory:

Usage

1) Create a directory called “Example”, under which you save the mail files.

2) Make sure that the mail names do not contain neither special characters ([,],{,},#) nor french accents like like é,à, etc.

3) Move your current directory to example

4) Convert the mails by typing

prompt> mhonarc "nom_fichier1.eml" "nom_fichier2.eml"…"nom_fichier_n.eml"

5) To verify the generated output :

maillist.html: The main index file containing links to all mail messages converted. Messages are listed with subjects and who the messages are from. All messages are listed by the date.

threads.html: The file listing messages by threads.

msg*.html: HTML versions of the mail messages, where * represents a message number from 0 to the number of message processed minus 1.

mhonarc.db: This database file contains archive information and resource settings for MHonArc to perform further updates.

Other: If messages contain attachments, other files may be created for images, videos, binaries, etc.

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