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<p>This is more for information in case someone else comes across this.</p>
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<p>After running yum updates and updating perl to perl-5.8.8-23.fc7 MailScanner would not start.</p>
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<p><font face="times new roman">The first line of the error message is</font></p>
<p>is only avaliable with the XS version at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9</p>
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<p><font face="times new roman">There are loads of errors to do with Zlib, Archive and Message modules.</font></p>
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<p><font face="times new roman">Eventually the cause was tracked down to a buggy Scalar::Util module (after some googling)</font></p>
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<p><font face="times new roman">Resolution</font></p>
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<p>wget <a href="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.19.tar.gz">
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.19.tar.gz</a></p>
<p><font face="times new roman">tar xzvf Scalar-List-Utils-1.19.tar.gz <br>
cd Scalar-List-Utils-1.19 </font></p>
<p><font face="times new roman"><font face="times new roman">perl Makefile.PL</font><br>
make test</font></p>
<p><font face="times new roman"><font face="times new roman">make install</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="times new roman"><font face="times new roman">Once that was done everything was fine and MailScanner started again and seems to be working fine.</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="times new roman"><font face="times new roman">Jason</font></p>
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