Perl MIME error?

[Tim Tyler]

Peter,
  Thanks! it worked.  we upgraded to 5.8 and it contained the proper MIME
Base64.pm stuff.  Then we ran the perl -MCPAN -e shell and installed the
other MIME tools modules such as Mail and IO that were needed.  All is good
again.  Much thanks!
 Tim

>
>The new version of MailScanner (4.21-9) requires these Perl modules:
>
>http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/perl.shtml
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>I guess your new Perl does not contain the Base64-module. Check with:
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># find `perl -e 'print "@INC"'` -name "*.pm"|grep -i base64
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>This is what is returned on my server:
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>/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/MIME/Base64.pm
>/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/MIME/Base64.pm
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Decoder/Base64.pm
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Decoder/Base64.pm
>/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Decoder/Base64.pm
>/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Decoder/Base64.pm
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>If you don't have it, install with:
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># perl -MCPAN -e shell
>cpan> install MIME::Base64
>
>/Peter Bonivart
>
>--Unix lovers do it in the Sun
>
>Tim Tyler wrote:
>>   Mailscanner experts,
>>    We are still running mailscanner 2.6 on an IBM aix
>> system.  We just upgraded our aix server from 4.3.3 to
>> 5.1.0.  We also upgraded perl5.6.0 up to 5.6.1.  Now when we
>> try to run mailscanner, it fails.  It gives us the following
>> error:
>>    Can't locate MIME/Base64.pm in @INC
>> Then it runs a bunch of compile errors related to not
>> finding MimeBase64 related files.
>>    We did not upgrade the perl Mime/base64.  Do we need to
>> upgrade Mime/base64?  What is required from a Perl
>> perpective to get mailscanner 2.6.x running again?
>>   Thanks! -tim
>>
>> Tim Tyler
>> Network Engineer
>>
>


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Tim Tyler
Network Manager - Beloit College
tyler at beloit.edu