MHonArc FAQ: About the FAQ

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## About the FAQ

- Summary
- Terms and Definitions
- Version
- Location
- Author

| ### Summary

This documents contains answers to some of the frequently asked question on MHonArc. MHonArc is a Perl program for converting e-mail messages as specified in RFC 822 and MIME to HTML. MHonArc has the ability to maintain an archive of converted messages, or it can be used as a basic e-mail->HTML converter.

The FAQ is intended to compliment the documentation provided in the MHonArc distribution. The documentation is still the key source to answers to any question you may have. While reading this FAQ, it may be beneficial to have the documentation easily accessible.

| ### Terms and Definitions

HTML | Hypertext Markup Language.
MH | RAND MH Message Handling System, an MUA.
MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.
MTA | Mail transfer agent: Software for delivering mail.
MUA | Mail user agent: Software responsible for reading and composing mail.
Perl | Practical Extraction and Report Language (or Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister).
sendmail | The MTA used by most Unix systems.
RFC | Request for Comments: Notes about networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts of the Internet.
SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language.
UUCP | UNIX-to-UNIX Communications Package.
Web | World Wide Web.
WWW | World Wide Web.

| ### Version

Since the FAQ has multiple pages, the date that each page is updated is at the bottom of each page.

| ### Location

<http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/faq.html>

| ### Author

Earl Hood, mhonarc@mhonarc.org

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