Problem with Perl 5.8 -> 5.10 upgrade

[Martin Hepworth]

I doubt it. Unless someone else is willing to take over it's best to
use the tar.gz general MS installer.



2009/3/30  <mailscanner at bengrimm.net>:
> Hey Julian, excellent work, as always. It works. Thanks! I hope the FreeBSD
> port maintainer will manage to get with the times a bit more, but with this
> bug he will probably have to real soon.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>>
>> You've got an old version, this is a bug in Perl 5.10.
>> However, there is a workaround in the latest beta.
>> But if you don't want to install a new version, you can patch your
>> existing one.
>> Edit SMDiskStore.pm and around line 359, there is an "if" statement with a
>> loop in it.
>> Replace that whole chunk of code with this:
>> # Handle trackback -- This is the tricky one
>>  if ($configwords[1] =~ /tr[ua]/i) {
>>    my $i;
>>    for ($i=(@{$body}-1); $i>=0; $i--) {
>>      last if $body->[$i] =~ /^\s*$/i;
>>      pop @{$body};
>>    }
>>    return;
>>  }
>> and then restart MailScanner, and you should find it works now.
>>
>> On 30/3/09 13:53, mailscanner at bengrimm.net wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi guys, hope you can shed some light on this:
>>>
>>> Platform: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE
>>> Version: MailScanner-4.67.6_4 (latest version in ports)
>>> With: clamav-0.95, bdc-7.0.1_2, p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5_2
>>> Perl: 5.10 (no problems with exact same config under perl 5.8)
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>> Error in logs when starting on a new email:
>>>
>>> MailScanner: waiting for children to die: Process did not exit cleanly,
>>> returned 255 with signal 0
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>> # mailscanner --lint /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>>> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
>>> Checking version numbers...
>>> Version number in MailScanner.conf (4.67.6) is correct.
>>>
>>> Your envelope_sender_header in spam.assassin.prefs.conf is correct.
>>>
>>> Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
>>> SpamAssassin temp dir = /tmp/SpamAssassin-Temp
>>> SpamAssassin reported no errors.
>>> MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = bitdefender clamd"
>>> Found these virus scanners installed: bitdefender, clamd
>>>
>>> ===========================================================================
>>>
>>> ===========================================================================
>>> Virus Scanner test reports:
>>> Bitdefender said "Found virus EICAR-Test-File (not a virus) in file
>>> eicar.com"
>>> Clamd said "eicar.com was infected: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND"
>>>
>>> If any of your virus scanners (bitdefender,clamd)
>>> are not listed there, you should check that they are installed correctly
>>> and that MailScanner is finding them correctly via its
>>> virus.scanners.conf.
>>>
>>> No problems there.
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>> # mailscanner --debug-sa /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>>> (nothing)
>>>
>>> No problems there.
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>> # mailscanner --debug /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>>> In Debugging mode, not forking...
>>> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
>>> SpamAssassin temp dir = /tmp/SpamAssassin-Temp
>>> Building a message batch to scan...
>>> Have a batch of 2 messages.
>>> Can't use string ("1036") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
>>> /usr/local/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SMDiskStore.pm line 359, <GEN50> line
>>> 1037.
>>>
>>> Note: the "1036" "<GEN50>" and "1037" depend on the emails being
>>> processed, so these numbers vary all the time. When there's no email to
>>> scan, the --debug session will just sit there patiently. As soon as an email
>>> arrives:
>>>
>>> Have a batch of 1 message.
>>> Can't use string ("36") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
>>> /usr/local/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SMDiskStore.pm line 359, <GEN47> line
>>> 36.
>>>
>>> Any idea what may be causing this? MailScanner, SA, ClamAV, BDC, and all
>>> necessary perl modules have been rebuilt against perl 5.10. As noted, this
>>> setup worked flawlessly with perl 5.8
>>>
>>> TIA.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Jules
>>
>
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Martin Hepworth
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