On May 7, 2002 at 11:20, Wilhelm Alm wrote: > I found a old message how a ' in the Subject line > might corrupt the database. > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/mhonarc/1997-04/msg00030.html > We (collectively, not royally :-) ) had this problem on our system > some time back. Turns out there was a message with a ' in the > Subject line, and when MHonArc stored that ' in its dbfile it > mistakenly read it as a string terminator for the value in the > hashtable. As I recall, the solution was to edit the mail file > and escape the offending apostrophe before rebuilding the archive. > > > Does that risk still exist?
No. This was fixed a long time back. v2.5.4 should have no problems with single quotes. > And do I have to add ISO-8859-15 into CHARSETCONVERTERS > to avoid such ' in subject lines? > Will a upgrade to 2.5.4 reduce that? > * Added ISO-8859-15 to default value of CHARSETCONVERTERS. The CHARSETCONVERTERS has no affect on the mechanics of how the .mhonarc.db file is written. --ewh