4.25-6 Bug?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Nov 13 12:35:18 GMT 2003


Apply this to Config.pm

--- Config.pm.old       2003-11-13 12:34:47.000000000 +0000
+++ Config.pm   2003-11-13 12:34:10.000000000 +0000
@@ -1771,6 +1771,7 @@
                                  $rulesfilename, $!);
    flock($rulesfh, $LOCK_SH);

+  $RuleScalars{$keyword} = []; # Set up empty ruleset
    $linecounter = 0;
    $errors      = 0;
    while(<$rulesfh>) {

At 12:00 13/11/2003, you wrote:
>I am seeing this bug too.  Setup: Solaris 9, 4.25-6, Net::CIDR installed,
>perl 5.8.2.
>
>--- Jeff Earickson
>
>On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Steve Freegard wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:12:30 -0000
> > From: Steve Freegard <steve.freegard at LBSLTD.CO.UK>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: 4.25-6 Bug?
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've just upgraded my busiest MailScanner box from 4.22-4 to 4.25-6 as I've
> > had problems with MailScanner occasionally taking up 95% CPU (and strace of
> > this process just shows "wait4(-1,"), I wanted to try the new Quarantine
> > permissions features with MailWatch, and it was about time I upgraded :-))
> >
> > Just a small problem though, I put the IP Addresses of my local subnet in
> > 'spam.whitelist.rules' like:
> >
> > From:           172.16.                                 yes
> > From:           192.168.1.                              yes
> >
> >
> > to stop SpamAssassinating any internal mail - except this doesn't seem to
> > work anymore (I'm guessing it has something to do with the Net::CIDR
> > changes).
> >
> > I tried:
> >
> > From:        172.16.0.0/16                    yes
> >
> > But that didn't work either :-(((
> >
> > Is this a bug or am I doing something silly??
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Steve.
> >
> >
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