MailScanner version 4.65.3 and perl-MailTools-2.02-1.el4.rf HOWTO

[Scott Silva]

on 12/5/2007 10:35 AM Erick Perez spake the following:
> Just a quick help to the comunity, we started to see many errors in
> our systems after a perl upgrade.
> So here's how to spot it and fix it (temporary fix of course)
> 
> These instructions are for Centos 4.x / 5.x only, modify according to
> your system
> 
> MailScanner version 4.65.3
> perl-MailTools-2.02-1.el4.rf
> 
> equals the following errors:
> 
> # MailScanner -v | head -20
> Variable "$FIELD_NAME" is not imported at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 6907.
> Variable "$FIELD_NAME" is not imported at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 6910.
> Global symbol "$FIELD_NAME" requires explicit package name at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 6907.
> Global symbol "$FIELD_NAME" requires explicit package name at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 6910.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 79.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 79.
> 
> 
> Fix :
> 
> #rpm -e perl-MailTools-2.02-1.el4.rf –nodeps
> #wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/perl-MailTools/perl-MailTools-1.77-1.el4.rf.noarch.rpm
> #rpm -ivh perl-MailTools-1.77-1.el4.rf.noarch.rpm
> 
> Now check your system with
> #MailScanner -v | head -20
> Running on
> Linux xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2.6.9-55.0.12.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Nov 2 11:19:08
> EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> This is CentOS release 4.5 (Final)
> This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
> 
> This is MailScanner version 4.65.3
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.23    Archive::Zip
> 1.03    Carp
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 2.27    Date::Parse
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.05    Fcntl
> 2.73    File::Basename
> 2.08    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.06    File::Path
> 0.14    File::Temp
> 0.92    Filesys::Df
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
Or install the new mailscanner beta that fixes this also.

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