MIME-tools 5.412 Release Candidate

Randal, Phil prandal at HEREFORDSHIRE.GOV.UK
Tue Sep 7 17:40:12 IST 2004


MailScanner mailing list wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Please could a few people test this for me?
>>
>> It's a new release of the MIME-tools and is available at
>> http://www.mimedefang.org/static/MIME-tools-5.412-RC1.tar.gz
>>
>> Note that you must upgrade to MIME::Base64 version 3.01 or newer,
>> before you attempt to install this new version of MIME-tools.
>>
>> Please can you let me know of any problems.
>>
>> If everything works, this will be shipped as part of the next
>> release, and will be a compulsory upgrade as I will remove the
>> work-arounds that I have added into MailScanner, to handle the bugs
>> in the previous 5.411 version.
>
> I had some problems at the install, but now it looks ok.  I upgraded
> MIME::Base64 and then installed MIME-tools from the package
> and I got that:
>
> Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>           MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>           incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>           outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>           Starting MailScanner daemons: incoming sendmail:
>           [  OK  ] outgoing sendmail:
>           [  OK  ] MailScanner:       FATAL: Newer MIME-tools module
> needed: 1.3
>   is only MIME::Words -- 5.404 required at
> /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 839
>                                                             [  OK  ]
> [root at mta1 MIME-tools-5.412-RC1]# MailScanner -v This is Perl
> version 5.008003 This is MailScanner version 4.32.4 Module
> versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.12    Archive::Zip
> 1.01    Carp
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.05    Fcntl
> 2.72    File::Basename
> 2.07    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.06    File::Path
> 0.14    File::Temp
> 1.27    HTML::Entities
> 3.35    HTML::Parser
> 2.28    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.21    IO
> 1.10    IO::File
> 1.122   IO::Pipe
> 1.3     MIME::Decoder
> 1.1     MIME::Decoder::UU
> 1.3     MIME::Head
> 1.6     MIME::Parser
> 5.412   MIME::Tools
> 0.10    Net::CIDR
> 1.07    POSIX
> 1.76    Socket
> 0.04    Sys::Syslog
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Then, I upgraded MIME::Words from CPAN, but I had to force
> it, and now it seems to be working.

Same problem and workaround here on Fedora Core 1.

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

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