Hi Medhamsh, I run LetterRip Pro on a Mac G5 machine. mhonarc itself is run on a Linux machine (along with the web server).
Out of curiosity, i sit possible to run mhonarc on a Mac OS X server? Best wishes Tony On 14 Nov 2011, at 9:47AM, Medhamsh V wrote: > Hi Antony, > > > > On 13 November 2011 15:52, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I manage the actual mail server on a machine at home (Mac) and messages that >> go to the forum are sent to e.g. [email protected] (which is the > > Can I just know what mail server you run? > >> >> John moved the site to a new virtual server in November and since then the >> archives have not worked. I guess the server needs configuration so that >> mail send to [email protected] , [email protected] etc get sent >> to MHonArc for processing. > > What mailing list manager are you using? This makes me clear about the way > lists are managed and the way archives can be stored. > >> The server was also set up to only accept emails sent from my machine so >> that it could not be spammed (not sure if this was done using the IP address >> of my machine at home?). > > Probably it has been configured as whitelist and blocklists rules. > >> I am looking for the following to be done: >> >> 1) Update MHonArc to current version (2.6.18) and update Perl. >> 2) Update Perl - I think much of what is done is via Perl scripts >> (http://www.mhonarc.org/mharc/doc/) > > There is ample documentation for this and I would help you doing this. > >> 3) Get messages to start archiving again (not sure what needs to get set up >> on the server) > > A cron job with mhonarc can do this. Pretty straight forward way. > >> 4) It would also be useful if the archiving could be set up so that >> superfluous message headers did not show ie only "To", "Subject", "From" and >> "Date". > > This can be handled by tweaking things in .mrc file. > >> 5) Instructions on how I can modify appearance of pages. > > I am very poor at this. You probably need a css file and use an index.html > and internally pull the mail messages. > >> 6) Instructions on how I filter emails according to year ie what I need to >> do at the start of each year > > This can be achieved. > >> 7) Instructions on how I ensure only emails sent from my machine are >> archived > > Mails sent to a particular list can be archived. Isnt this what you want? > >> 8) Brief notes to show me how to do the above so that I can maintain going >> forward > > Sure. > > By the way, Are you running everything on Macintosh operating system? > > Regards, > > -- > Medhamsh, > hacker-@-pascal-labs > International Institute of Information Technology > Gachibowli > Hyderabad >
