[Mimedefang] spamassassin failure

[Justin]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Matthew Hall wrote:
> I portupgraded my spamassassin, mimedefang all in one chunk - things
> seemed fine. Then I noticed a whole lotta spam coming through - I did
> some manual checks and it turns out that something changed in the
> SpamAssassin.pm that my older version of perl (stock 5.005) didn't like.
>
> Now, I know I should have been checking error codes more efficiently
> when I call the spam_assassin_is_spam - but should this error have
> appeared somewhere at load time? What error would spam_assassin_is_spam
> return if there is a syntax error (as far as perl is concerned) in a
> SpamAssassin module?

I've just done this myself on a FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE system. I haven't
investigated it enough yet but it looks to me like mimedefang can't figure
out the spamass version. May be something I goofed.

-Justin