Need Perl 5.8.0 for RBL?

[Julian Field]

At 15:21 10/07/2002, you wrote:
>   My next phase with mailscanner involves enabling spamassasin.  I've
>   got it running on my test machine and added the recommended Digest::Net
>   module to enable the RBL checks.  However, my test machine is running
>   perl 5.8.0

I haven't tried 5.8 at all yet.

>  and I can't seem to get the Net module installed on the
>   production machine (perl 5.6.1) due to
>   dependencies on the Digest::MD5 that seems to only be available in
>   perl 5.8.0.  Does the SpamAssasin RBL checks work with 5.6.1?

Yes. Nothing in MailScanner requires anything beyond 5.005. I only require
that because of all the bugs in 5.004.

>   I
>   used the perl Makefile.PL route for installing spamassasin instead
>   of perl -MCPAN -e shell method and maybe this is where I went wrong.

I always use the Makefile.PL route myself.
But I do use -MCPAN for installing the modules that SpamAssassin requires
(except I stop it upgrading my entire copy of Perl!)

>   TIA for any advice,   Tom Combs

Sorry response is a bit slow at the moment, I'm working with a 28.8k modem
out of a hotel room all this week as I'm in London on a course. Should
improve when I get back home this weekend :-)
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