On May 21, 2002 at 21:51, Greg Matheson wrote: > At the start of May, Earl Hood wrote in reply to me: > > > > I guess I could parse the email messages myself and pass the > > > bodies in as environmental variables to MHonArc. This solution > > > still would have the problem of deciding which email message > > > corresponded with which MHonArc file name. > > > .... I recommended leveraging the annotation feature to get the > > desired effect. I.e. Pre-create an annotation for each message > > including the first few lines of a message and then use the > > $NOTE$ resource variable to include it in the index. > > This turned out cleaner than I expected using the Mail::Box > modules, but I imagine the MIME::* suite allow the same sort of > thing. ...
You may want to look at recent post I did to the list containing the program mha-preview. It is a custom front-end to MHonArc that supports including the initial text of a message body in indexes. The program mainly exists to illustrate the MHonArc callback API. Since others have been asking about including body data within indexes, I decided to make a stab at it myself without relying on some external pre-processing and to see if the callback API I have been adding can actually be used to do something useful. mha-preview will only work with v2.5.4 or later. In the next release, I will include mha-preview in the examples/ directory. I may, in the future, include such functionality within MHonArc itself since it should be easy to conditional the functionality so the overhead in doing it is only done if enabled. NOTE: If the functionality is added to MHonArc, it will probably not be compatible with mha-preview. However, the functionality would be independent, so mha-preview, if used, can still be used with later releases and anything add to MHonArc can be ignored. > I get the body of the message and its id and URL-escape it and > pass it to MHonArc. I use the resource variable, $NOTE$ in my rcfile to > put the annotation in the right URL. The only thing I don't like > is having to URL escape the string myself, but there doesn't seem > to be any MHonArc resource that will do it for me. What is the URL escaping used for? Are you placing the body text within a URL? Wouldn't that make a large URL? You can try "$NOTE:U$ to get MHonArc to URL encode the text for you. The Resource Variables section of the docs list the variable modifiers you can use. > The other thing I don't like is the MIME garbage left in the body > after decoding, but I can't expect MHonArc to do that for me :-) The mha-preview program avoids this problem by extracting the body preview text from the converted HTML and not from the raw mail data. --ewh
