Updating the "Mailscanner" port

[Johan Hendriks]

>Mike Jakubik wrote:
>> On Mon, March 30, 2009 9:49 pm, Mark Linimon wrote:
>>   
>>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:04:30PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>>     
>>>> If the existing maintainer has disappeared, one option would be for
>>>> you to take over maintainership: Upgrade mailscanner yourself and
>>>> submit the upgrade as a PR that also transfers maintainership to
>>>> youself.  If there's no response after about 2 weeks, the port is
yours.
>>>>       
>>> Actually, there is a 2-week timeout on updates, but a 3-month
timeout
>>> on maintainer inactivity for transferring maintainership.  Vacations
>>> can last more than 2 weeks :-)
>>>     
>>
>> I've just submitted a patch that updates this port to the latest
version,
>> perhaps we can squeeze it in before the freeze.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=137747
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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>I noticed a couple of things here. The 4.78.9 version is still listed
as 
>Beta according to the MailScanner site, though the site may just not 
>have updated yet. Second, the patch submitted forces perl 5.10+ as a 
>requirement. I've seen nothing on the MailScanner site that says that 
>this is a requirement, and have had no problems myself using any of the

>Beta versions with perl 5.8.9_3. Given that upgrading perl is not 
>something to be done lightly, I was wondering what issues people were 
>seeing that 5.10 fixed.
>
>Thanks

I am running quit a few Mailscanner servers, and they all failed under
perl 5.8.9
This was on FreeBSD 6.x, 7.x and 8-Current that time, when i switched to
5.10.x or back to 5.8.8 my problems went away.

if you google on FreeBSD perl 5.8.9 and mailscanner there are a lot of
people reporting issues.

Regards,
Johan Hendriks





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