Error after postfix upgrade

[Julian Field]

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Upgrade your MailScanner (I'll be releasing a new version tomorrow
morning, so wait until then). This code is commented out in the latest
version, it has been re-implemented differently.

remeryspam at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> I have been running an Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server for the past 6 months
> with postfix and mailscanner installed from the repositories.
> Everything has been working great!
>
> Yesterday, I ran the updates on the server, which updated postfix
> from 2.2.10-1ubuntu0.1 to 2.4.5-3build1~dapper1 (mailscanner is at
> 4.46.2-3). After the update, mail wasn't being delivered and I
> noticed this message in the logs every time mailscanner runs:
>
> postfix: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 255 with signal 0
>
> If I run postfix without mailscanner, it runs without logging
> errors. I switched mailscanner to run with debug = yes, and ran
> check_mailscanner, and got this message:
>
> Can't call method "DropFromBatch" on unblessed reference at
> /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/Postfix.pm line 332.
>
> The code there is:
>
> # If the data offset is 0 then Postfix definitely hasn't finished #
> writing the message. unless ($DataOffset+0 > 10) { # 10 ==
> arbitrarily small number $message->DropFromBatch(); return 0; }
>
> I am a programmer, but am not at all familiar with Perl, so am not
> sure what the problem is.
>
> Any thoughts/advice?
>
> Thanks in advance, Rick

Jules

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