MailTools and MailScanner...

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At 04:32 PM 12/4/2007, you wrote:

>on 12/4/2007 12:06 PM Philip Zeigler spake the following:
>>ajos1 at onion.demon.co.uk wrote:
>>>-
>>>
>>>The reply back is:
>>>
>>>============================
>>>
>>>  From: mark at zzzzzzzz    to    ajos1 at zzzzzzzz        Date:  Sun, 2 
>>> Dec 2007 22:35:59 +0100        Subject:  ajos1 - Re: MailTools 
>>> and MailScanner...        CC/Multi-To:  (none)        Attachments:
>>>(none)
>>>* ajos1 at zzzzzzzz (ajos1 at zzzzzzzz) [071202 21:07]:
>>>
>>>>Not sure if you use MailScanner or not...
>>>>
>>>
>>>No, never heard of it.  Don't know where it is kept (not on CPAN).
>>>
>>>
>>>>Since MailTools 2.01 - We have an error... and we are not sure if it
>>>>is a MailTools problem or a MailScanner problem... See the message at
>>>>the end...
>>>>
>>>
>>>The MailTools 2.xx code is a massive clean-up.  One of the things which
>>>changed, is a stricter use of clean coding techniques.
>>>
>>>
>>>>[root at onion perl_ext]# MailScanner -v | head -20
>>>>Variable "$FIELD_NAME" is not imported at
>>>>    /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 6907.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Understandable.  Yes an effect of my cleanups.
>>>
>>>
>>>>package Mail::Header;
>>>>                      $arr->[1] =~ /\A$FIELD_NAME/o;
>>>>
>>>
>>>Something very bad is happening here: code is added to an existing
>>>module.  This code should either be added in the core Mail::Header
>>>package OR should be added using the OO extension mechanism.
>>>
>>>The author of the mailscanner has to clean-up his code, IMO.  I could
>>>export the $FIELD_NAME, but preferrably not.
>>>
>>Just did a yum update on my Centos 5 system and it installed 
>>MailTools-2.02.  Is there a fix planned for this any time soon or 
>>should I downgrade to 1.7.7 and exclude the update?
>>Philip
>Which repo did you get this from? I only see it in Fedora.

Yep. I'm confirming. CentOS 5.

rpm -qa |grep MailTools
perl-MailTools-1.71-1

And the update is waiting in the yum repository.


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