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? 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. Thanks a lot, Wilhelm