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Appendix: Bugs
* Reporting Bugs
* Open Bugs
* Fixed Bugs
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Reporting Bugs
To report a bug against MHonArc, send mail to the MHonArc mailing list,
mhonarc@ncsa.uiuc.edu. The list is closed to subscribers, so if you are not
subscribed, you can send mail to mhonarc@mhonarc.org.
Please include the following information in your message:
* Version of Perl (can be retrievied by "perl -v").
* Version of the program (can be retrievied by "mhonarc -v").
* The operating system you are using (on Unix the output of "uname -a" is
useful).
* The exact command-line used to invoke the program.
* Error/diagnostic messages from the program.
* Any other information that might prove useful (eg. input files,
resource files, environment settings, etc).
If possible, avoid sending a huge mail message. Try to make the bug
reproducable with the smallest amount of data that is possible. If this is
difficult, then either provide URLs to any data needed to reproduce the
bug, or state that data can be provided via private mail to any persons
concerned.
Note, some bug reports are not actual bugs, but usage errors. Make sure you
have checked the problem against the documentation and FAQ before sending a
report. Also, check the bug list in the documentation to see if the bug has
already been reported (and maybe fixed). You may need to go the MHonArc
home page to check the bug list in case you are not using the latest
version of MHonArc.
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Open Bugs
The following gives a list of open bugs reported against MHonArc. Each bug
listing shows the version the bug was reported against (the bug may be
applicable to earlier versions), and a description of the problem.
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Version: All (with MULTIPG and TREVERSE support)
Problem: Links to thread index from message page do not link to the
correct thread index page when MULTIPG and TREVERSE is active.
Solution: OPEN: The problem is that a listing for a message in a thread
index is not "fixed" due to how threads are organized.
Non-related messages can move the location of a message listing,
but currently MHonArc is unable to detect this. A possible
solution is to compare old ordinal location with new ordinal
location for each message. If different, see if new position
cause message to move to another index page. If so, mark message
to be edited. This kind of check would cause a performance hit,
but it may be unavoidable inorder to fix the problem.
Fixed: OPEN
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.5.0b2, and earlier
Problem: Non-HTML tag data that matches image/auto-loaded attribute
strings (e.g: src="...") can be modified during CID url
resolution or URL rewriting during base href resolution within
the mhtxthtml.pl filter.
Solution: OPEN: A complete solution would require full HTML parsing, but
this would incur a performance penalty. The current set of
regular expressions are intended to deal with security issues but
minimize any performance penalties. Unclear if existing html
filter should be modified or a separate, more robust filter, can
be created, and allow users to choose which one they want.
Contributors welcome for developing a robust HTML filter.
Fixed: OPEN
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Fixed Bugs
The following gives a list of bugs reported against and fixed in MHonArc.
Each bug listing shows the version the bug was reported against (the bug
may be applicable to earlier versions), a description of the problem, a
summary of the solution, and the version of MHonArc the bug was fixed.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.5.0, 2.5.1
Problem: Messages with the "X-no-archive: yes" message header field are
always excluded from an archive even if the CHECKNOARCHIVE
resource is off.
Solution: Fixed in mhamain.pl.
Fixed: 2.5.2
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Version: 2.5.0
Problem: OTHERINDEXES get regenerated multiple times per MHonArc
invocation. The replication increases over time.
Solution: Fixed in mhopt.pl: Typo in code prevented OTHERINDEXES list to
not remove duplicate entries.
Fixed: 2.5.1
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Version: 2.5.0
Problem: MHonArc aborts with Perl syntax in readmail.pl on a use of substr
and that it only takes three arguments.
Solution: Fixed in readmail.pl: The 4 argument version is only supported in
Perl 5.005 and later. Statement replaced with equivalent code to
be compatible with older Perl releases.
Fixed: 2.5.1
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Version: 2.4.7 - 2.5.0b2
Problem: The background-image style setting for the table wrapping in
mhtxthtml.pl not set properly if original HTML data specifies a
background CID url in the BODY element. Problem probably not
visible in browsers since table's background attribute was still
set properly.
Solution: Fixed in mhtxthtml.pl: Code for setting the background-image
style was not updated during the change of handling of CID urls
in v2.4.7.
Fixed: 2.5.0
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Version: 2.5.0b, 2.5.0b2
Problem: Some messages not updated to show changes in thread slice
listing.
Solution: This is really a limitation on how messages are tagged for update
and problem may occur explicit range parameters are specified for
$TSLICE$ that differ from default values in TSLICE. Work-around
to problem is now documented in the TSLICE resource page.
Fixed: 2.5.0 (documented limitation)
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Version: 2.5.0b, 2.5.0b2
Problem: If CHECKNOARCHIVE is active, messages will still be archived if
checked message header fields occur multiple times and it is not
the first occurance of the field that specifies archive intent.
For example:
X-No-Archive: Wed Oct 3 09:49:46 CDT 2001
X-No-Archive: yes
Solution: Fixed in mhamain.pl: All occurances of message header fields that
denote archive intent or now checked and not just the first
occurance.
Fixed: 2.5.0
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Version: 2.5.0b2, and earlier
Problem: Documentation: Location of TSUBLISTEND in Thread index page
resource layout is incorrect.
Solution: Fixed in doc/layout.html: TSUBLISTEND moved from before
TSUBJECTBEG to after TSUBJECTEND.
Fixed: 2.5.0
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Version: 2.5.0b2 (and maybe earlier)
Problem: Documentation: DOCURL default is "http://www.mhonarc.org/" when
it is actually "http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html".
Solution: Fixed in mhinit.pl: Source changed to match documentation, "http:
//www.mhonarc.org/".
Fixed: 2.5.0
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Version: 2.5.0b
Problem: If TREVERSE is active, the thread next button/link for the second
message in a thread would link to the next thread instead of the
third message in the thread, if present.
Solution: Fixed in compute_msg_pos() in mhrcvars.pl.
Fixed: 2.5.0b2
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Version: 2.5.0b
Problem: Resource variables dependent on current index page number and/or
page size can expand to incorrect values for main index pages.
The current page number and page size would always evaluate to
zero.
Solution: Fixed in mhindex.pl. replace_li_var() still depends on some
variables being defined by the calling context, so local() still
has to be used instead of my() for some variables if
replace_li_var() is to be called.
Fixed: 2.5.0b2
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Version: 2.5.0b
Problem: Use of -quiet does not suppress "This is MHonArc v..." start
message.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.5.0b2
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Version: 2.4.5 - 2.4.9
Problem: Numerous '$' characters are scattered throughout archive pages.
Solution: This problem can occur with a bad VARREGEX resource setting, or
if set to the empty string. mhrcfile.pl updated to only honor a
VARREGEX setting if it is non-blank. It is still up to the user
to be extremely careful when setting this resource. A big warning
has been added to the VARREGEX resource reference page about the
usage of the resource.
Fixed: 2.5.0b
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Version: 2.4.9, and earlier
Problem: Default value of TSLICE resource was "0:0".
Solution: The docs say the default should be "0:4", so code fixed in
mhinit.pl to reflect docs. Note, existing archives that used the
default value will have 0:0 and would require an explicit setting
of TSLICE to correct. Fixed default will only affect new
archives.
Fixed: 2.5.0b
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Version: 2.4.9, and earlier
Problem: M2H_RCFILE envariable setting had no affect.
Solution: Bug introduced when multiple rcfiles could be specified on the
command-line. Fixed in mhinit.pl.
Fixed: 2.5.0b
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Version: 2.4.9
Problem: Image URLs in HTML data are stripped out.
Solution: Fixed in mhtxthtml.pl
Fixed: 2.5.0b
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Version: 2.4.8, and earlier
Problem: Default CHARSETCONVERTERS values for latin[1-6] charsets causing
require error.
Solution: This was supposedly fixed in 2.4.8 in mhinit.pl, but apparently
was not. The def-mime.mrc file in the example directory did have
the correct mappings.
Fixed: 2.4.9
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Version: 2.4.8
Problem: MHonArc aborts with Perl syntax errors if mhnull.pl filter is
loaded.
Solution: Dump typo errors that should have been caught before release.
Syntax errors fixed in mhnull.pl.
Fixed: 2.4.9
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Version: 2.4.7, and earlier
Problem: Message with HTML content can cause perl to crash. Other symptom
would be that a stale .mhonarc.lck directory would exist
preventing further archive updates.
Solution: There appears to be a bug in perl's regex engine. The fix was to
change mhtxthtml.pl comment declaration removal expression into a
simplier one that just munges (removes parts) to avoid crashes.
Fixed: 2.4.8
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Version: 2.4.7, and earlier
Problem: Prefixing second argument to $PGLINKLIST()$ with a 'T' cause no
thread page links to be rendered after current thread index page.
Solution: Fixed in mhrcvars.pl: Make sure to strip 'T' from both arguments
before evaluating numeric values.
Fixed: 2.4.8
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Version: 2.4.7, and earlier
Problem: Default CHARSETCONVERTERS values for latin[1-6] charsets causing
require error.
Solution: Fixed in mhinit.pl (typo in library filename).
Fixed: 2.4.8
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Version: 2.4.6, and earlier
Problem: ADDRESSMODIFYCODE not stored in database.
Solution: Fixed in mhdb.pl (a dumb typo)
Fixed: 2.4.7
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Version: 2.4.6, and earlier
Problem: TPARENT message specifier for applicable resource variables will
cause a resource variable to expand to the empty string if there
is no parent message to the current message.
Solution: If there is no parent message, TPARENT resolves to to the current
message.
Fixed: 2.4.7
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Version: 2.4.5, maybe earlier
Problem: Using message-ids with -rmm does not remove messages.
Solution: Fixed in mhrmm.pl
Fixed: 2.4.6
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Version: 2.4.5
Problem: Japanese text messages not wrapped in PRE element.
Solution: Fixed in mhtxtplain.pl
Fixed: 2.4.6
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Version: 2.4.4
Problem: $PGLINKLIST$ for threads did not work.
Solution: Fixed in mhrcvars.pl.
Fixed: 2.4.5
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Version: 2.4.4, and earlier
Problem: -afs had no effect.
Solution: Fixed in mhopt.pl: Option was not checked.
Fixed: 2.4.5
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Version: 2.4.4, and earlier
Problem: %y print 3 digits in time format strings if year 2000 or later.
Solution: Fixed in mhtime.pl
Fixed: 2.4.5
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Version: 2.4.0-4
Problem: <PRE> tags are printed when decoding ISO-2022-JP encoded header
text.
Solution: Fixed in iso2022jp.pl
Fixed: 2.4.5
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Version: 2.4.3, and earlier
Problem: Text/html filter died with a "Modification of non-creatable
array" error when a relative URL exists in body data, but no base
URL defined for the html data.
Solution: Fixed in mhtxthtml.pl
Fixed: 2.4.4
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Version: 2.4.0 - 2.4.3
Problem: Error "Can't modify keys in scalar assignment" occurs when using
older version of Perl 5.
Solution: Later Perl 5 releases support keys operator as an lvalue to
preallocate a hash. Assignment put in an eval block to avoid
program termination.
Fixed: 2.4.4
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Version: 2.3.0 - 2.4.3
Problem: Setting IDXSIZE < MAXSIZE for a single page index causes the
generation of incorrect list entries and null list entries.
Solution: Fixed in mhindex.pl
Fixed: 2.4.4
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Version: 2.4.3, and earlier
Problem: Using entity references within MONTHS, WEEKDAYS, et al, not
supported and caused names to be incorrect.
Solution: The semi-colon, ';', was treated as an undocumented list
separator in resource files. "Feature" removed.
Fixed: 2.4.4
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Version: 2.4.2
Problem: $*GMTDATE$ and $*LOCALDATE$ expand to the empty string if using
default time format string settings.
Solution: Fixed in mhtime.pl
Fixed: 2.4.3
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Version: 2.4.2, and earlier
Problem: Multipart processing is done inproperly if nested multiparts
exist and "outer" multipart entity has a boundary which is a
substring prefix of an "inner" multipart entity.
Solution: Fixed in readmail.pl
Fixed: 2.4.3
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Version: 2.4.2, and earlier
Problem: Cid URL in multipart/related is not resolved if message part
being referenced is at a higher "level" (due to nested
multiparts) than the referrer.
Solution: Fixed in readmail.pl
Fixed: 2.4.3
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Version: 2.4.2, and earlier
Problem: -tnosort and -tnosubsort should be -notsort and -notsubsort.
Also, bogus -tnoreverse and -notgziplinks options listed in -help
message.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.4.3
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Version: 2.4.2, and earlier
Problem: Charset parameter value not properly extracted when no space
after value and next parameter (Example: charset=us-ascii;name=
"file.txt").
Solution: Fixed in mhtxtplain.pl
Fixed: 2.4.3
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Version: 2.4.1, and earlier
Problem: M2H_URL envariable does not properly affect the URL resource.
M2H_SORT does affect it.
Solution: Fixed (typo).
Fixed: 2.4.2
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Version: 2.4.1, and earlier
Problem: %c does not work in time format resources.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.4.2
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Version: 2.4.1
Problem: When invoking mha-dbrecover, Perl errors occur for mhmsgfile.pl.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.4.2
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Version: 2.4.0, and earlier
Problem: DOC resource setting not stored in database.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.4.1
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Version: 2.4.0
Problem: Default filehandle changed to STDERR after call to get_resources
(). Can cause problems for Perl apps calling MHonArc via API.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.4.1
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Version: 2.4.0
Problem: MHonArc under BSD OS would go into Win/MS-DOS mode.
Solution: Make check for "dos" platform stricter in osinit.pl.
Fixed: 2.4.1
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Version: 2.3.3
Problem: Duplicate message-ids in a message's reference list were not
removed.
Solution: Array changed to my() scope caused remove_dups() to not do
anything (it takes a typeglob). Array changed back to local().
Fixed: 2.4.0
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Version: 2.3.0-3
Problem: TFIRST, TLAST, and PARENT arguments to resource variables always
produced null values.
Solution: Fixed. Note, PARENT is now TPARENT to be consistent with other
thread-related arguments.
Fixed: 2.4.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.3.0-3
Problem: SUBJECTHEADER resource not printed when -savemem is used.
Solution: Problem is due to the new resource variable handling in 2.3. The
solution is to support the editing of SUBJECTHEADER (and
HEADBODYSEP) in existing message pages.
Fixed: 2.4.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.3.3, and earlier versions
Problem: Multipart processing not done properly if boundary parameter not
enclosed in quotes and is terminated by a semi-colon.
Solution: Fixed in readmail.pl.
Fixed: 2.4.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.3.3, and earlier versions
Problem: %h not recognized in time format strings.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.4.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.3.3
Problem: Use of $ICON$ will generate defective tag like `ALT="[text/plain]
">'.
Solution: Fixed typo in join() call in mhrcvars.pl.
Fixed: 2.4.0
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Version: 2.3.3, and earlier versions
Problem: Some messages with specified inline images are not having images
inlined.
Solution: Content-Disposition parsing fixed.
Fixed: 2.4.0
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Version: 2.3.3, and earlier versions
Problem: Clip length not handled properly in resource variables. Ie.
Characters that are translated into entity references are not
handled properly when computing clip adjustment. Incorrect
clipping can occur.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.4.0
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Version: 2.3.3, and some possible earlier versions
Problem: MHonArc checking for writable OUTDIR in SINGLE mode.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.4.0
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Version: 2.3.3, and earlier
Problem: Default resource file not read if located in MHonArc lib
directory.
Solution: Fixed improper assumption of @INC setting.
Fixed: 2.4.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.3.3, and earlier
Problem: TLIEND not generated at proper times when thread level goes
beyond TLEVELS.
Solution: A check is made in thread index printing to generate a TLIEND
properly for TLITXT when deeper than TLEVELS.
Fixed: 2.4.0
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Version: 2.3.0-2.3.2
Problem: -otherindex and -perlinc command-line options do not work. Using
them has no affect.
Solution: Subtle precedence issue in Perl variable operations; problem
fixed.
Fixed: 2.3.3
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Version: 2.3.0-2.3.2
Problem: Resource variable expansion not working properly in MAILTOURL
resource.
Solution: Certain variables in read_mail_header() where put in my()
declarations when they should stay as local()'s. Changed back.
Fixed: 2.3.3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.3.0-2.3.2
Problem: Next/previous message link resource variables are reversed when
REVERSE is on.
Solution: REVERSE check was left out in new v2.3 replace_li_var(). Check
added in.
Fixed: 2.3.3
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Version: 2.3.0, 2.3.1
Problem: Some resource variables (eg $SUBJECTNA$) expand to blank values
when using -single.
Solution: SINGLE mode sets @MListOrder and %Index2MLoc to support the new
way in v2.3 replace_li_var() resolves resource variables.
Fixed: 2.3.2
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Version: 2.3.1 (maybe earlier versions also)
Problem: MHonArc does not handle message range specification with leading
zeros in numbers in -rmm mode.
Solution: int() is used within Perl's range operator to force the stripping
of leading zeros.
Fixed: 2.3.2
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Version: 2.3.0
Problem: Attachments of the same type get written to the same filename.
Solution: Another my/local gotcha. Note, writing attachments has been
redone so other filters besided mhexternal.pl can write data to
files.
Fixed: 2.3.1
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Version: 2.0.0 - 2.2.0
Problem: A bogus TCONTBEGIN may get printed at the beginning of a thread
index page. Most common when TREVERSE specified.
Solution: @TListOrder now serves as the basis for list iteration when
printing a thread index page instead of the list returned by
t_sort_messages(). Note, old method may cause other minor errors
in thread index page generation.
Fixed: 2.3.0
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Version: 2.2.0, 2.3.0 beta
Problem: Duplicate index list entries are generating for threads indexes
generated via OTHERINDEXES with TREVERSE active.
Solution: All key data structures are now reset when recomputing threads.
Fixed: 2.3.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.2.0, 2.3.0 beta
Problem: Threads are not listed in reverse order when THREAD and TREVERSE
are set for an OTHERINDEXES resource file.
Solution: Thread data structures are now reset before each OTHERINDEXES
index. If an OTHERINDEXES resource file specified THREAD, than
threads will be recomputed for the given index defined by
resource file.
Fixed: 2.3.0
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Version: 2.3.0 beta
Problem: Mail addresses in message headers are not getting converted to
mailto links.
Solution: MHonArc still uses typeglobs for passing data around by
"reference" (left-over from Perl 4 days). One of the variables in
the message header formatting routine was changed back to a local
() variable to supporting passing it via a typeglob sub-routines.
Fixed: 2.3.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.3.0 beta
Problem: Cannot copy file error occurs during installation when copy
documentation to destination location.
Solution: Updated install.cfg to reflect file changes to documentation.
Fixed: 2.3.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.3.0 beta
Problem: Author index generated via the OTHERINDEXES resource does not
list messages in proper order. Other main indexes generated via
OTHERINDEXES may suffer the same problem.
Solution: The write_main_index() did not reset %Index2MLoc properly,
affecting resource variable resolution. If @MListOrder is
recomputed, %Index2MLoc will be redefined.
Fixed: 2.3.0
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Version: 2.3.0 beta
Problem: PG(PREV) and PG(TPREV) did not resolve to IDXFNAME and TIDXFNAME,
respectively. They resolved to (T)IDXPREFIX with the page number
1.
Solution: Simple fix to page number check.
Fixed: 2.3.0
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Version: 2.2.0, 2.3.0 beta
Problem: Messages grouped under wrong date in date-based index.
Solution: The problem is related to a descrepency of GMT time and local
time, and what time format is being used in the DAYBEGIN
resource. The resource USINGLOCALTIME has been added to give the
choice betweem GMT or local time for determining day groups.
Fixed: 2.3.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.2.0
Problem: Get "times not implemented at mhamain.pl line 74" error on Win32
systems.
Solution: Call to times is put in an eval block.
Fixed: 2.3.0 alpha
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.2.0
Problem: When a message that gets automatically deleted via MAXSIZE or the
message expiration, related message sometimes do not get update
-- causing messages to have links to non-existent messages.
Problem manifiest when main sort option is not by date.
Solution: Automatic message deletion now properly marks related message by
specified main sort option.
Fixed: 2.3.0 alpha
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Version: 2.1.2
Problem: The @TListOrder array is empty in .mhonarc.db when MULTIPG is
set. This may cause some messages not getting properly updated
when new messages are added.
Solution: Removed use of splice on @TListOrder when MULTIPG. Now, array
slices are used so @TListOrder is preserved.
Fixed: 2.2.0
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Version: 2.1.2
Problem: Convert ISO-2022-JP messages can generate "Out of Memory" errors.
Solution: The cleanup of mhtxtplain.pl's iso-2022-jp code introduced a bug
that caused an infinite loop and to gobble memory until it ran
out. The fix was straight-forward.
Fixed: 2.2.0
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Version: 2.1.2
Problem: Quoted text that is broken due to maxwidth setting of the
mhtxtplain.pl filter did not have the quote character prepended
to broken the text.
Solution: A regex updated to dealing with a leading space before quote
character.
Fixed: 2.2.0
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Version: 2.1.1
Problem: Documentation of MAILTOURL incorrectly states that the $TO$
resource variable is the value of the To: message header field.
Solution: Fixed documentation to state that $TO$ represents the address
being hyperlinked.
Fixed: 2.1.2
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Version: 2.1.1
Problem: Attachments saved to files with spaces in filename (due to
"usename" option set to m2h_external::filter), will cause anchors
to the attachments in the HTML message contain spaces.
Solution: Fixed m2h_external::filter to escape special characters in the
URL linking to the external file.
Fixed: 2.1.2
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Version: 2.1.0
Problem: Message with dates after 2037, or before 1970, will hang MHonArc,
not get processed, or listed in wrong order.
Solution: The problem is that Perl's timelocal.pl library cannot handle
dates out of those ranges (same applies to Time::Local). Since
get_time_from_date() is the only routine require the services of
timelocal.pl, the routine will generate a warning of bad years
and use the current year.
Fixed: 2.1.1 (Work-around)
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Version: 2.1.0
Problem: Anchors to attachments in a message converted via SINGLE do not
contain OUTDIR if OUTDIR is specified. OUTDIR may want to be set
to all attachments to be contained in a separate directory from
the converted message.
Solution: mhexternal.pl now checks $SINGLE variable set by the main code
during startup. If set, the value of $OUTDIR is prepending to any
hrefs to external files.
Fixed: 2.1.1
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Version: 2.1.0
Problem: February is misspelled "Febuary" in mhtime.pl.
Solution: Change the spelling so its correct.
Fixed: 2.1.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.1.0
Problem: Lowercase timezones in dates are not recognized.
Solution: Code modified to convert zones to uppercase when performing hash
lookups.
Fixed: 2.1.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.1.0
Problem: Specified filenames of attachments sometimes have a ';' appended
when utilizing the "usename" option is set for mhexternal.pl.
Solution: Fixed MAILhead_get_disposition() in readmail.pl to strip off ';'
parameter separator.
Fixed: 2.1.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.1.0
Problem: Specified filenames with spaces of attachments are not recognized
properly. Filename gets truncated to first occurance of a space.
Solution: Fixed MAILhead_get_disposition() in readmail.pl to to handle
filenames with spaces.
Fixed: 2.1.1
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Version: 2.1.0
Problem: The HTMLEXT resource does not affect the numbered index page
filenames of a MUTLIPG archive.
Solution: write_main_index() and write_thread_index() fixed.
Fixed: 2.1.1
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Version: 2.1.0
Problem: Anchor text of MAILTOURL links is translated to URL escaped text.
Solution: mailUrl() routine fixed.
Fixed: 2.1.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.1.0
Problem: Message 0 could not be deleted if specified with more than one 0
(eg: 00000);
Solution: rmm() routine fixed.
Fixed: 2.1.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.1.0
Problem: SUBJECTHEADER does not get stored in the db.
Solution: output_db() routine updated to save SUBJECTHEADER.
Fixed: 2.1.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.1.0
Problem: Empty links can be created if there is no "From" defined for a
message and it is used as link text.
Solution: Use 'No Author' as "From" if not defined.
Fixed: 2.1.1
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Version: 2.1.0
Problem: If a user defined resource variable is a string that Perl
interprets as a false value, it will not be used.
Solution: Changed code to used define() function in replace_li_vars().
Fixed: 2.1.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.1.0
Problem: Expired messages are not removed when a the main index is not
sorted by date.
Solution: Always sort message by date when doing expire check.
Fixed: 2.1.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.1
Problem: An undefined subroutine error occured during an RMM operation
when there are messages with non-ASCII encodings in message
headers.
Solution: Proper libraries are now loaded for RMM operations.
Fixed: 2.1.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.1
Problem: Subjects using the "... -Reply" convention started a new thread.
Solution: Fixed typo in regexp.
Fixed: 2.1.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.1
Problem: Nested anchor markup occurs on index pages when a message's
subject contains a URL and the subject is used to link to the
message page.
Solution: Replaced default routine that converts subject text to HTML to a
routine that does not hyperlink URLs.
Fixed: 2.1.0
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Version: 2.0.0
Problem: Bogus empty entry shows up in the database. Bogus entry appears
if a duplicate message is detected. Potential visible problems of
bogus entry are: mailto links in headers corrupted; a blank
listing in the index. Maybe other potential problems.
Solution: There is a bug in some versions of Perl where a hash key gets
added invalidly. The section of code that this occurs has been
modified to avoid the problem. For existing databases with a
bogus empty entry, MHonArc now removes any empty key entries.
However, it is recommed to rebuild the archive.
Fixed: 2.0.1
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Version: 2.0.0
Problem: Index pages are not properly updated if zero messages are in the
archive (like through the -rmm option). Even -editidx cannot
cause a proper update.
Solution: Page count was set to zero when no messages exist. This caused
problems in conditional checks in the write index routines. To
fix, page count is forced to 1 if their are no messages.
Fixed: 2.0.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: Index pages with last page links are not updated when a new page
is added.
Solution: All index pages are regenerated if a new page is added.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: "-idxsize 0" does not give unlimited page size.
Solution: Problem fixed and now works as documented.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: "-maxsize 0" does not reset archive with unlimited messages
allowed.
Solution: Problem fixed and now works as documented.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: Non-ASCII text encodings (=?ISO-..?...) are not properly decoded
when EDITIDX is set.
Solution: The charset filter libraries are now loaded for EDITIDX.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: MODTIME resource setting not remembered across archive updates.
Solution: MODTIME resource is now properly stored in the database.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: Specifying -rmm and -single caused confusion on what MHonArc
does.
Solution: The case is properly handled, with -rmm taking precedence.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: 4 digit year not checked before 2 digit year when parsing dates.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: Some index pages in multipage indexes not updated when messages
expire.
Solution: Fixed; all pages are regenerated when a message expires.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: Setting MONTHS and MONTHSABR had no effect.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: $TNEXTFROM$ actually gave the value of $NEXTFROM$.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: Numerical timezone offsets not handled properly when the offset
contained non-zero minutes. This caused message to be sorted
wrong by date.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.0.0
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Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: Some characters were not properly escaped when specifying the "in
URL" modifier to a resource variable.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: Thread (formatting) information lost when a thread is split
across multiple pages.
Solution: Fixed. New resources (TCONTBEGIN, TCONTEND, TINDENTBEGIN,
TINDENTEND) exist to preserve formatting of threads across pages.
Fixed: 2.0.0
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Version: 2.0.0 beta 3
Problem: If specifying the REVERSE resource, the next/prev links in
messages do not point to the proper message as one may expect.
Solution: This should be fixed by the new behavior of $NEXT...$ and
$PREV...$ resource variables.
Fixed: 2.0.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 2
Problem: Perl aborts with message "Undefined subroutine &main::output_db
called ..." when the GENIDX resource is set.
Solution: Fixed. The output_db function is not applicable when GENIDX is
active.
Fixed: 2.0.0 beta 3
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Version: 2.0.0 beta 2
Problem: Duplicate resource filenames are not removed from the
OTHERINDEXES resource. This caused duplicate work to be
performed.
Solution: Fixed. Any duplicate filenames are removed before applying the
OTHERINDEXES resource.
Fixed: 2.0.0 beta 3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 2
Problem: Indexes created via the OTHERINDEXES resource contain no
messages.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.0.0 beta 3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 2
Problem: The markup defined by TSUBLISTEND may appear when there is no
corresponding TSUBLISTBEG.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 2.0.0 beta 3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 2.0.0 beta 1
Problem: A multipart boundary specified with a capital boundary parameter,
and not in quotes, was not recognized.
Solution: Fixed
Fixed: 2.0.0 beta 2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 1.2.3
Problem: Generation of links of message-ids when editting messages w/o
consideration that the message-ids may already be linked. This
caused nested anchor markup.
Solution: Fixed. Only new message-ids are checked for.
Fixed: 2.0.0 beta 1
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Version: 1.2.2
Problem: The ';' character may appear in derived files if the "usename"
option is set for the mhexternal.pl filter.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 1.2.3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version: 1.2.2
Problem: The '/' character is not properly recognized in e-mail addresses
when e-mail addressess are being converted to mailto links in
message headers.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 1.2.3
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Version: 1.2.2
Problem: Database read failures occur in add operations on MS-DOS systems.
Solution: Fixed (?)
Fixed: 1.2.3
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Version: 1.2.1
Problem: The TIDXPGEND resource actually sets the value of the TIDXPGBEG
resource.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 1.2.2
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Version: 1.2.0
Problem: MHonArc will abort execution under MS-DOS due to regular
expression error.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 1.2.1
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Version: 1.2.0
Problem: install.me will abort execution under MS-DOS due to regular
expression error.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 1.2.1
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Version: 1.2.0
Problem: A reverse index listing is incorrect if the index size is less
than the archive size.
Solution: Fixed.
Fixed: 1.2.1
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