MailScanner --lint errors

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Monday 07 April 2008 3:56 pm, Julian Field wrote:
> Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> > On Monday 07 April 2008 3:00 pm, Julian Field wrote:
> >> Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> >>> On Monday 07 April 2008 1:18 pm, Julian Field wrote:
> >>>> Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> >>>>> On Monday 07 April 2008 10:31 am, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> >>>>>> Dimitri Yioulos wrote on Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:53:56 -0400:
> >>>>>>> I didn't get that with mailscanner-4.65.3-1, my last version before
> >>>>>>> upgrading to the latest.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> sounds rather like a problem with SA. Did you also upgrade SA? You
> >>>>>> may be missing a now required Perl module. A timing package?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Kai
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany
> >>>>>> Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:
> >>>>>> http://www.conactive.com
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Kai,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm running the latest (RPM) version of SA - 3.2.4.  All of the perl
> >>>>> SA modules look to be up-to-date, too.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I took a look at
> >>>>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpqamAssassin/Dns.pm line 371,
> >>>>> which read "$total_waiting_time += $waiting_time".  Just for fun, I
> >>>>> deleted the +, ran MS --lint, and the first error was gone.  However,
> >>>>> I'm not sure if the "+=" isn't a valid construct, and what the
> >>>>> consequences of my change would be (and so may just put back the +).
> >>>>
> >>>> You can't just remove "+" signs like that, sorry!
> >>>> That line is a shorthand for
> >>>> $total_waiting_time = $total_waiting_time + $waiting_time;
> >>>>
> >>>>> As to the second error, I see the line in Dns.pm, but have no idea
> >>>>> what it does.  Googling has turned up little.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Dimitri
> >>>>
> >>>> Jules
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
> >>>> www.MailScanner.info
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> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Jules.  I figured as much.  So that's what "+=" means.  Can
> >>> these errors be ignored as being tivial?
> >>
> >> Depends what the errors were. Your previous message didn't include the
> >> error messages.
> >>
> >> Jules
> >>
> >> --
> >> Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
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> >
> > Sorry, they were edited out by a previous poster.  MailScanner --lint
> > returns:
> >
> > Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
> > SpamAssassin temporary working directory
> > is /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp
> > SpamAssassin temp dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp
> > Using SpamAssassin results cache
> > Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
> > Use of uninitialized value in addition (+)
> > at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 371.
>
> That's pretty irrelevant, just a minor warning.
>
> > plugin: eval failed: Can't locate object method "log_lookups_timing" via
> > package "Mail::SpamAssassin::AsyncLoop"
> > at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 381.
> > SpamAssassin reported no errors.
>
> This appears to imply a problem in the DNS lookups done by SpamAssassin.
> Do the DNS lookups done by SpamAssassin still appear to work okay? If
> so, ignore it. If not, then I would take that problem to the
> SpamAssassin mailing list, once you have made sure you are running the
> latest version of SpamAssassin ("MailScanner -v" will tell you what
> version it is).
>
> > spamassassin --lint retuns no errors.
>
> What about "spamassassin --lint -D"? Does its output show any warnings
> about DNS lookups?
>
> Jules
>
> --
> Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
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>
 
Julian,

Your points are well taken.

I did run spamassassin -D --lint and got no errors.  MailScanner -v output 
appears fine, and only the SAVI module is missing (and I don't need it, 
anyway).  SA DNS lookups appear to be working fine.  And, as I mentioned, our 
mail system, in general, appears to be working just fine, as it always has.  
That notwithstanding, I think I will take this to the SA mailing list.

My thanks to you and Kai.

Dimitri

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