diff --git a/ADDITIONS/fetchmail.pl b/ADDITIONS/fetchmail.pl
index 5986d2b7..f68c4aa1 100644
--- a/ADDITIONS/fetchmail.pl
+++ b/ADDITIONS/fetchmail.pl
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ $lockmgr->lock($lock_file) || log_and_die "can't lock ${lock_file}";
 $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $db_username, $db_password) || log_and_die "cannot connect the database";
 
 if($db_type eq "Pg") {
-	$sql_cond = "active = 1 AND date_part('epoch',now())-date_part('epoch',date)";
+	$sql_cond = "active = 't' AND date_part('epoch',now())-date_part('epoch',date)";
 } elsif($db_type eq "mysql") {
-	$sql_cond = "active = 't' AND unix_timestamp(now())-unix_timestamp(date)";
+	$sql_cond = "active = 1 AND unix_timestamp(now())-unix_timestamp(date)";
 }
 
 $sql = "
diff --git a/VIRTUAL_VACATION/vacation.pl b/VIRTUAL_VACATION/vacation.pl
index b7f929a3..06a787c0 100644
--- a/VIRTUAL_VACATION/vacation.pl
+++ b/VIRTUAL_VACATION/vacation.pl
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 use utf8;
 use DBI;
 use MIME::Base64 qw(encode_base64);
-use Encode qw(encode);
+use Encode qw(encode decode);
 use MIME::EncWords qw(:all);
 use Email::Valid;
 use strict;
@@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ sub send_vacation_email {
         $logger->debug("Will send vacation response for $orig_messageid: FROM: $email (orig_to: $orig_to), TO: $orig_from; VACATION SUBJECT: $row[0] ; VACATION BODY: $row[1]");
 
         my $subject = $row[0];
+        $orig_subject = decode("mime-header", $orig_subject);
         $subject =~ s/\$SUBJECT/$orig_subject/g;
         if ($subject ne $row[0]) {
           $logger->debug("Patched Subject of vacation message to: $subject");
diff --git a/functions.inc.php b/functions.inc.php
index b116951c..734e74d2 100644
--- a/functions.inc.php
+++ b/functions.inc.php
@@ -1250,7 +1250,7 @@ function db_connect ($ignore_errors = 0) {
             if ($link) {
                 @mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8",$link);
                 @mysql_query("SET COLLATION_CONNECTION='utf8_general_ci'",$link);
-                $succes = @mysql_select_db ($CONF['database_name'], $link) or $error_text .= ("<p />DEBUG INFORMATION:<br />MySQL Select Database: " .  mysql_error () . "$DEBUG_TEXT");
+                @mysql_select_db ($CONF['database_name'], $link) or $error_text .= ("<p />DEBUG INFORMATION:<br />MySQL Select Database: " .  mysql_error () . "$DEBUG_TEXT");
             }
         } else {
             $error_text .= "<p />DEBUG INFORMATION:<br />MySQL 3.x / 4.0 functions not available! (php5-mysql installed?)<br />database_type = 'mysql' in config.inc.php, are you using a different database? $DEBUG_TEXT";
@@ -1261,7 +1261,7 @@ function db_connect ($ignore_errors = 0) {
             if ($link) {
                 @mysqli_query($link,"SET CHARACTER SET utf8");
                 @mysqli_query($link,"SET COLLATION_CONNECTION='utf8_general_ci'");
-                $success = @mysqli_select_db ($link, $CONF['database_name']) or $error_text .= ("<p />DEBUG INFORMATION:<br />MySQLi Select Database: " .  mysqli_error ($link) . "$DEBUG_TEXT");
+                @mysqli_select_db ($link, $CONF['database_name']) or $error_text .= ("<p />DEBUG INFORMATION:<br />MySQLi Select Database: " .  mysqli_error ($link) . "$DEBUG_TEXT");
             }
         } else {
             $error_text .= "<p />DEBUG INFORMATION:<br />MySQL 4.1 functions not available! (php5-mysqli installed?)<br />database_type = 'mysqli' in config.inc.php, are you using a different database? $DEBUG_TEXT";
diff --git a/setup.php b/setup.php
index da1fb5dc..e48a4662 100644
--- a/setup.php
+++ b/setup.php
@@ -152,10 +152,17 @@ else
 
 if (!is_writeable($incpath.'/templates_c'))
 {
-    print "<li><b>Error: Smarty template compile directory templates_c is not writable.</b><br />\n";
-	print "<b>Please make it writable.</b><br />\n";
-	print "<b>If you are using SELinux or AppArmor, you might need to adjust their setup to allow write access.</b><br />\n";
-    $error =+ 1;
+    if(!is_dir($incpath . '/templates_c')) {
+        print "<li><b>Error: Smarty template compile directory templates_c not found.</b><br />\n";
+        echo "<b>Please <code>mkdir -p $incpath/templates_c</code> and make it writeable by the web server</b>\n";
+        $error =+ 1;
+    }
+    else {
+        print "<li><b>Error: Smarty template compile directory templates_c is not writable.</b><br />\n";
+        print "<b>Please make it writable.</b><br />\n";
+        print "<b>If you are using SELinux or AppArmor, you might need to adjust their setup to allow write access.</b><br />\n";
+        $error =+ 1;
+    }
 } else {
 	print "<li>Smarty template compile directory is writable - OK<br />\n";
 }