MailScanner seems broken on FreeBSD using perl > 5.8.8

[Johan Hendriks]

>Greetings everyone,
>
>I've just recently upgraded to MailScanner version MailScanner-4.75.11 
>using perl-5.8.9_2 on a FreeBSD 7.1 system, and sadly the server is 
>unable to process mail. When MailScanner tries to run it reports the 
>following type of error:


>MailScanner[42585]: Could not use Custom Function code 
>/usr/local/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/MyExample.pm, it 
>could not be "require"d. Make sure the last line is "1;" and the module 
>is correct with perl -wc (Error: Insecure dependency in require while 
>running with -T switch at 
>/usr/local/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 623.)
>
>
>The same error is reported for all of the following functions: 
>ZMRouterDirHash.pm, SpamWhitelist.pm, MyExample.pm, DavidHooton.pm, 
>LastSpam.pm, GenericSpamScanner.pm, CustomAction.pm, 
>Ruleset-from-Function.pm.

>A helpful fellow suggested I check with some perl people to see what the 
>-T switch of perl means, and then ask on the mailing list for some more 
>information. Some perl people said the -T is a 'taint mode' designed to 
>perform additional safety/sanity checks on the code, and apparently the 
>Function modules are using, or "require"-ing, some user provided data; 
>which is all in turn causing MailScanner to break on FreeBSD systems 
>running perl versions higher than 5.8.8. This has the effect of 
>preventing any FreeBSD servers running MailScanner from being able to be 
>updated - kind of crippling them :(

>Unfortunately I don't know enough about perl or what MailScanner is 
>doing with these functions in order to solve the problem and make 
>MailScanner work on FreeBSD again. If anyone could please help with this 
>it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
>
>Regards,
>Moggie.

You can do 2 things.
1  revert back to perl 5.8.8, it will all work like it should after going back to 5.8.8
2 Upgrade to 5.10.x see /usr/port/UPDATING how to upgrade your perl to 5.10
With perl 5.10 things will start to work again.

I had the same issue, on my servers i am running MailScanner-4.75.11 with perl-5.10.x
This is on 8.0 and 7.x systems, both i386 and amd64.

I would go for option 2
Regards,
Johan Hendriks
Double L Automatisering
  

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