Updating the "Mailscanner" port

[Kevin Kobb]

Mike Jakubik wrote:
> On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:18 am, Kevin Kobb wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> There seems to be some kind of include problem with this version of perl
> on freebsd and mailscanner. I am not sure what exact condition triggers
> the issue, but enough people have complained about this. As of now I am
> unable to run mailscanner on any of my systems with perl 5.8.9, which
> version are you using?
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg18581.html
>
> Upgrading perl can indeed be a pain, as this problem shows, however i am
> not a perl programmer and i don't know how to address this issue. Perl
> 5.10 seems to work great. Since no one has addressed this and Jan does not
> seem to maintain this anymore, i took the initiative to update the port,
> as i needed a new version. This is the latest version, which is labeled as
> beta. It seems to be running just fine here, but it would be nice if more
> people could test it.
>
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In production, I am using the official 4.75 FreeBSD port, which I 
submitted the patches for so if it is messed up it is probably my fault 
;) I've also used 4.77 without problem, and very briefly tested 4.78. If 
people are having trouble and the port could strongly recommend using 
5.10 that might be better. Doing a quick scan of /usr/ports, I didn't 
find any ports that specifically required 5.10+.

I am not a perl programmer either, but if you want to take this port and 
upgrade it, I would be happy to help or test. I'm not sure what the 
status is of the listed maintainer.