Is MailScanner affected by the Redhat bug

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Tue Sep 9 14:15:22 IST 2008


Chris

Just doing some checking of out mailscanner system that I won't bore you with but I notice you've got an issue with your setup.

In Mailscanner.conf your %org-name% has a '.' in it that can upset some MTA's.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Chris Sweeney
> Sent: 09 September 2008 14:07
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Is MailScanner affected by the Redhat bug
>
> > Redhat & Centos distros seem to have a performance issue with perl
> > http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/
> >
> >
> > I have all my servers running MailScanner on Centos. Is MailScanner
> > greatly affected by the Bug ?
> > Should I upgrade perl on my machines  ?
> >
> From:
> http://people.centos.org/z00dax/bz379791/
>
> #
> # This small repo contains a patched version of perl to fix #
> the issues raised on :
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379791
> # for CentOS-5. Only i386 and x86_64 packages are provided.
> #
> # There has been some testing done on the centos-devel list,
> however you should # still test it yourself before deploying
> into production # # to install these packages :
> # cd /etc/yum.repos.d/; wget
> http://people.centos.org/z00dax/bz379791/bz379791.repo
> # yum --enablerepo=c5-bz379791 update perl # #
>
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