# Install mhonarc with Homebrew, apt, dnf, Nix

Mail-to-HTML converter. Version 2.6.24 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:mhonarc
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mhonarc
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install mhonarc
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: mhonarc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install mhonarc
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mhonarc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mhonarc
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: mhonarc from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:mhonarc
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mhonarc>
- **Version:** 2.6.24
- **Source summary:** Mail-to-HTML converter
- **Homepage:** <https://www.mhonarc.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/mhonarc>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://www.mhonarc.org/>
- **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later
- **Source archive:** <https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/L/LD/LDIDRY/MHonArc-2.6.24.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-22T14:05:28-07:00
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- mha-dbedit (cli)
- mha-dbrecover (cli)
- mha-decode (cli)
- mhonarc (cli)
- mha-dbedit (alias)
- mha-dbrecover (alias)
- mha-decode (alias)
- mhonarc (alias)

## Dependencies

- perl

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 2.6.24
- Package-manager updated: 2026-06-22
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://www.mhonarc.org/
- info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Project history and usage

MHonArc is Earl Hood's Perl mail-to-HTML converter for turning mail and news messages into web archives. The project's contact page identifies Hood as creator and developer, and an archived W3C announcement for MHonArc 1.1 shows the tool already being distributed in April 1995 as a Perl 4 program for RFC 822 and MIME email conversion.

### Project history

Its historical role is tied to the early web's mailing-list archives. MHonArc generates HTML indexes, message pages, and thread links, with MIME support and extensive resource-file customization. The 1995 announcement already listed features that became central to mailing-list archive maintenance: thread indexes, removing messages, archive size limits, detection of already archived messages, and customization variables.

### How it is used

In practice, administrators run `mhonarc` over mailbox files, MH folders, or incoming mail/news messages to produce static HTML archives; companion tools such as `mha-dbedit`, `mha-dbrecover`, and `mha-decode` support archive database and decoding tasks. Its presence in Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, Nix, and Ubuntu reflects a mature Perl utility niche: less a general email client than a durable static-site generator for list archives and message collections.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mhonarc>
- <https://metacpan.org/dist/MHonArc/view/mhonarc>
- <https://www.mhonarc.org/>
- <https://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/contacts.html>
- <https://www.w3.org/Tools/MHonArc.html>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.mhonarc.mrc
- Windows: <user-home-path>\mhonarc.mrc
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** mhonarc
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 1
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - mhonarc - 2.6.24-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: mhonarc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Mail to HTML converter | https://metacpan.org/dist/MHonArc/view/mhonarc
- Nix - mhonarc: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: mhonarc from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
- Ubuntu apt - mhonarc - 2.6.19-2.2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mhonarc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Mail to HTML converter
- dnf - mhonarc - 2.6.24-17.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mhonarc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Perl mail-to-HTML converter | https://metacpan.org/release/MHonArc


## Related links

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- [Web development packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/web-dev-tools/) - Matched web development metadata.
- [perl](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/perl/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mhonarc.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/mhonarc.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph