SpamCopURI-0.19 seems broken

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Gang,
    I did considerable twiddling before posting my message yesterday.  I
had URI-1.31 installed, plus the Mail-SpamAssassin-SpamCopURI-0.19 downloaded
directly from the SURBL site.  Following the advice of the "BigEvil and
Stuff" thread, I downloaded Steve Swaney's version from www.fsl.com and
installed that instead.  I rolled back to URI-1.30, then tried URI-1.31
again.  I reinstalled SpamAssassin 2.63 again.  Nothing chased away
the problem.  Others are right that removing the evals in the cf file
shuts up the lint complaint, but also neuters the checking.

My one wrinkle is that I have multi-threaded perl 5.8.4 installed on my
Sun box:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.9, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi

I am wondering if most SURBL success stories out there **do not** use
threaded perl.  I'm thinking of reinstalling perl, non threaded, to see
if that solves the problem.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Gerry Doris wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:32:54 -0400
> From: Gerry Doris <gdoris at ROGERS.COM>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: SpamCopURI-0.19 seems broken
>
> On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 15:08, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>> Gang,
>>     I've been following the "BigEvil and Stuff" thread, and I too have been having
>> issues with SpamCopURI-0.19, eval: complaints and open_redirect_list complaints.
>> My setup: Solaris 9, SA 2.63, URI-1.31 (also tried 1.30), MS 4.31.6.
>> And perl 5.8.4: osname=solaris, osvers=2.9, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi
>>
>> I downloaded Steve Swaney's version from http://www.fsl.com/support/
>> and followed the instructions, including cleaning out my copies of backhair,
>> bigevil, etc from my /etc/mail/spamassassin directory.  My lint output from
>> "spamassassin -D -p /etc/mail/spamassassin --lint" gives garbage like:
>>
>> Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: open_redirect_list
>> _spamcop_uri   snurl.com              *.snurl.com
>> (etc)
>>
>> and
>>
>> Failed to compile URI SpamAssassin tests, skipping:
>>      (syntax error at /etc/mail/spamassassin/surbl_uri.cf, rule SPAMCOP_URI_RBL,
>> line 1, near "eval:"
>> syntax error at /etc/mail/spamassassin/surbl_uri.cf, rule OB_URI_RBL, line 1, ne
>> ar "eval:"
>> syntax error at /etc/mail/spamassassin/surbl_uri.cf, rule OB_URI_RBL, line 9, ne
>> ar "}
>>      }"
>> )
>>
>> Following the advice of the list, I commented out the open_redirect lines, and
>> removed the "eval:" stuff in surbl_uri.cf to shut up these complaints.
>>
>> However -- I'm not convinced that this is the correct fix.  I did this on Friday
>> night and I got a TON of spam over the weekend.  Way more than usual.  Methinks
>> SpamCopURI-0.19 is useless, or neutered by the changes to surbl_uri.cf.
>>
>> How to *really* fix these errors???
>>
>> Jeff Earickson
>> Colby College
>
> I had the same error messages and was the one that commented out "eval:"
> to get it to stop complaining.  However, while that stopped the error
> messages SpamCopURI didn't seem to be working.
>
> I went back and reinstalled SA 2.63 and the two perl modules in Steve's
> message.  That fixed things.  I put the "eval:" line back in and
> uncommented the redirect lines.  All ran without complaints and I
> started seeing SA reports with SpamCopURI scores.
>
> --
> Gerry Doris <gdoris at rogers.com>
>
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