silent fail: suggestion for fix

[Julian Field]

Well found. Your suggestion is a very good one.

Please find attached a patch that will hopefully solve the problem for both
ClamAV and SAVI.

At 15:07 03/09/2004, you wrote:
>When "MailScanner.conf" includes "clamavmodule" in its "Virus Scanners",
>but the perl installation doesn't actually have "clamavmodule", MS
>silently fails.  There is no indication of failure on the command line,
>and the syslog file simply contains multiple lines "MailScanner E-Mail
>Virus Scanner version 4.33.3 starting...".  The only other hints are that
>there is only one MailScanner process (instead of building up towards the
>usual 5+) and that nothing gets removed from the incoming queue.
>
>It would be nice if this could be revealed in normal mode for the average
>user, not requiring head-scratching and Debug mode.
>
>Incidentally, a little lower "sub InitialiseSAVI { }" has an apparently
>similarly unguarded "require SAVI;".

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