Error message about Socket.pm when starting MailScanner

[Jeff A. Earickson]

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NOT TRUE!!!  Per my note of last night, once you get init.pre in
the right place and get SURBL working, then Sys::Hostname::Long
will screw up your hostname every time SA finds a message that matches
the SURBL criteria.  Boom, your hostname gets changed.  I confirmed
this last night, both in MS debug mode and in regular mode.

If you are on a Solaris box using Kerberos (as I am), then the
Sys::Hostname::Long bug is really nasty.  The hostname changes, the
Kerberos key table lookup fails, and then nobody can login to the
box.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:15:56 +0100
> From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Error message about Socket.pm when starting MailScanner
>
> At 12:12 03/10/2004, you wrote:
>> The one that does it is Sys::Hostname::Long. This has been mentioned a few
>> times before, but you probably need to know the module name to find it in
>> the mailing list archive.
>> You need to find and edit this module, or it will reset your hostname every
>> time it runs, which is "A Bad Thing(tm)".
>
> Correction, only the "make test" stage of the SpamAssassin installation
> process will screw up your hostname, apparently.
> --
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