Beta testers? Getting on okay?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jul 25 09:00:44 IST 2002


At 06:08 25/07/2002, you wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Julian Field wrote:
> > I've just tested a couple of messages with this setup, and it works fine on
> > my version of perl. To be sure to be case-insensitive, it
> > 1) converts the contents of spam.whitelist.conf to lower-case as it
> stores it
> > 2) converts the addresses being tested to lower-case before testing them
> > 3) does the tests as case-insensitive comparisons.
> >
> > So at least 2 of those must be failing on your Perl! :-(
>
>That's possible...the machine mailscanner is running on did have a failed
>perl upgrade at one time, though everything else works fine.  Thank
>goodness this isn't the production box :)
>
> > There's not much I can do to fix that as I already do everything I can to
> > make it work robustly. Are you sure you spelled mailer-daemon correctly?
>
>Sure did :)
>
>I won't worry until we're in production.
>
>Thanks for all the support!

I finally managed to re-create this problem on our site (of all people, our
head of department hit it). I have put a fix in place and tested it several
hundred times now, and it hasn't failed once since I put in the fix.

So you should upgrade to the latest code and then hopefully the problem
will have gone.
--
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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