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Tips

• When using the -add option, there is no need to re-specify the resource file (unless you want to override some settings) since MHonArc will store all resources in the database file (.mhonarc.db) from the last invocation and apply those resource to new messages added to the archive.

• Unless absolutely necessary, avoid changing the original sorting order when adding new messages to an archive. Changing the order cause MHonArc to modify every existing message in the archive to update the Next/Prev links.

• Unless absolutely necessary, avoid changing the title of the index page of an archive when adding new messages. This will cause MHonArc to modify every existing message in the archive to change the Index links to reflect the new name.

• Do not respecify the header and footer files if there is no change in them when adding new messages. Specifying them causes MHonArc to reread them again when it is not necessary.

• MHonArc can be renamed to "mbox2html." If so, the -mbox option is automatically assumed.

• MHonArc can be renamed to "mhf2html." If so, the -mh options is assumed. The renaming is for consistancy since MHonArc, by default, processes MH mail folders.

• If you want to share a specific resource file among different HTML mail archives, leave out elements that (could) qualify a specific archive: eg. HEADER, FOOTER, MBOX, MH.

• MHonArc can be used to process saved messages from newsgroups if the messages are saved in mailbox, or MH mail folder, format; or you save the messages by e-mailing them to yourself.

  NOTE: You can use the -msgsep option, or MSGSEP resource element, to process saved newsgroup messages that use a different message separator than mailbox files.

• If archiving a mass amount of mail messages, it might be useful to hook into the mail archive a search engine. You can utilize the header, or footer, resources (-header, -footer options or HEADER, FOOTER resource file elements) to automatically hook in a form into the index page to allow readers to interface with the search engine.