Re: .mhonarc.db deleted

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

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