anybody using threaded perl?

[Jeff Earickson]

Gang,
   Anybody out there in MailScanner-land using a threaded
version of perl with MailScanner?  Do a "perl -V" and look for

usethreads=define (yes, you are using threads)
usethreads=undef (no)

I noticed the other day that Sendmail::Milter needs threads
(see http://spf.pobox.com/sendmail-milter-INSTALL.txt).  So
I built a threaded version on another machine (Sol 9, tests
all passed), installed it -- and found that other perl modules
like DBI broke.  All of these modules needed rebuilding --
setting off a cascade of perl module rebuilding to get things
to work.  Yuck.

I know that Spamassassin 2.70 will support SPF, but didn't see
anything about threads in the CVS source for it.  Is threaded
perl a Bad Thing (tm)?

Jeff Earickson
Colby College