Updating the "Mailscanner" port
Kevin Kobb
kkobb at skylinecorp.com
Fri Aug 14 15:18:38 UTC 2009
Johan Hendriks wrote:
>> 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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I do remember seeing these problems reported, but for the life of me, I
can not reproduce them. I use 5.8.9 in production, and get 20 to 40
thousand messages a day scanned without a problem. I am setting up a new
server, and I will try 5.10 on that and see how things go.
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