[Mimedefang] spamassassin failure

[Justin]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Justin wrote:
> 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.


Just a quick comment that commenting out line 100 of SpamAssassin.pm as
per Matthew Thomas' message did the trick.

-Justin