I have been successful in setting up MHonac to handle all of the lists. Here is a short synopsis of how it worked. File this away for the answer on archiving for the next person!
Perl 5 must be running on the web server that will be hosting the archives. Download the following MHonarc ( www.mhonarc.org ) either winat from the windows NT resource disk or wincron from ( www.wincron.com ) Install both of these according to the instructions here is the short story. 1. Make a user account that will receive all of the messages from the lists. I used [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. add this user to each of the lists created. I added the user using the -listname portion ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] this will place all messages from the equipment list in the mbx file called equipment in the archives user folder under imail. create a list member with the appropriate -heading for each list to be archived. this will leave main.mbx not used for archiving purposes and will create equipment.mbx, agere.mbx, etc. 3. Either use net use command for drive mapping to the imail box, or set up ftp services for the archives folder. (depends on the security levels you have in place) 4. create a site for the web archives to be located, giving specified permissions like archives under inetpub then create sub folders for each of the lists c:\inetpub\archives\equipment c:\inetpub\archives\Agere etc. 5. create a batch file in the c:\inetpub\archives folder to do all of the work. map the drive to the imail box where the mbx files are located. or create the ftp location. 6. copy the appropriate mbx file to the subfolder, equipment goes to \archives\equipment 7. run perl \path\mhonarc.pl -add -outdir c:\inetpub\archives\equipment c:\inetpub\archives\equipment\equipment.mbx mhonarc can read the mbx files directly as Imail creates them, and will make a maillist.html and threads.html for the archives, along with message01, message02, etc for each message converted. 8. each list will be in the appropriate subfolder. create a default.htm or index.htm with links for each list archived, and point them to http://i.p.address.ofserver/equipment/maillist.html or http://archives.domain.com/equipment/maillist.html and they can hit the archives. 9. once the batch file works OK, use winat or wincron to make the batch file execute at a specified time each day or week, and the archives will be updated periodically. For high volume lists, move the mbx files instead of copying them, so they wont go over any quotas. (imail will create the new mbx file when a message is recieved for that user.) Sounds pretty complicated, but it really works simple once I figured out that the mbx files will be read without any conversions or modifications on my part. Hope this answers any questions about archiving lists, more than the usual response of www.mhonarc.org. There are probably better locations to place these files, for security reasons, but with the machine I am setting up, it is not that open for any other usage. contact me off list if you have any questions Mike Mike Delp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
