SpamCopURI-0.19 seems broken

[Martin Hepworth]

Jeff

might be worth subscribing to the sa-users email list (or whatever it's
called this week;-) and asking them. They are more likely to know about
this stuff. I do vaguely recall something about threading and SA
somewhere, but I could be wrong (and frequently am..).

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> 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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