Development info?

[Julian Field]

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
>
> Another issue is error reporting. The only error you get at startup is
> about the last line tht might be missing. But just about any mistake
> will show that message. Can the error report be made more specific?
>   
If you run MailScanner --lint you will get plenty of extra error 
reporting about your Custom Functions and why they won't compile. Take a 
look at this snippet of output I just tried, when I put a syntax error 
into MyExample.pm

[root at alegria CustomFunctions]# perl -c MyExample.pm
Number found where operator expected at MyExample.pm line 104, near "1"
    (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
syntax error at MyExample.pm line 104, near "1"
MyExample.pm had compilation errors.
[root at alegria CustomFunctions]# MailScanner --lint

Currently you are using no virus scanners.
This is probably not what you want.

In your /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf file, set
    Virus Scanners = clamav
Then download
    
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/install-Clam-SA.tar.gz
Unpack it, "cd" into the directory and run ./install.sh

Trying to setlogsock(unix)
Skipping Custom Function file Internet.dk.pm.verold as its name does not 
end in .pm or .pl
Number found where operator expected at 
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/MyExample.pm line 104, 
near "1"
    (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Could not use Custom Function code 
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/MyExample.pm, it could 
not be "require"d. Make sure the last line of the file says "1;" at 
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 624

So as you see it prints out the Perl errors just above the "Could not 
use Custom Function code" line near the bottom. What more do you want me 
to add?

Jules

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