Taint error with Perl v5.10.1

[Johan Hendriks]

>> On 7 Dec 2009, at 11:53, Edward Prendergast wrote:
>>
>>> When MailScanner drops privileges it goes down to the postfix user. 
>>> In case this was related to file permissions I altered all the
custom 
>>> modules ownership to root:postfix but this made no difference. My 
>>> best guess is a tainted @INC:
>>>
>>>
http://search.cpan.org/~dapm/perl-5.10.1/pod/perlsec.pod#Taint_mode_and_
@INC 
>>>
>>>
>>> But I'm not sure if this is correct, and if it is, how to go about 
>>> solving it?
>>
>> Try installing the latest beta. I believe Jules has fixed tainting 
>> issues in that version.

>Thanks for your feedback. As I'm running in production I think I may 
>downgrade to Perl 5.8.9 (I have the flexibility to do this now - this
is 
>one of the reasons why I'm looking to replace the RHEL-bundled Perl 
>RPM-based install with a custom version) and wait for these changes to 
>work their way through in a stable release.

>Thanks,
>Edward

Perl-5.8.9 will give you the same problem.
Use perl 5.8.8 or 5.10.0 
this will work

regards,
Johan Hendriks