[Mimedefang] SURBL lookups no longer happening after upgrade to 2.48

[Sven Willenberger]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 17:16 -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Sven Willenberger wrote:
> 
> > FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release had been using MD 2.44 with SA 2.64 and later with
> > 3.0 and successfully was querying the SURBL nameserver (running a cached
> > copy locally) -- this was visible using tcpdump on the loopback device
> > listening on the rbldns port. Upgraded to MD 2.48 and no longer see
> > traffic on this port, nor do I see the results of the SURBL tests in the
> > spammy mail.
> 
> Do you see messages like this in your log?
> 
>    WARNING: Something in your Perl filter appears to have opened a file
>    descriptor outside of any function.  With embedded Perl, you should
>    move any code that opens a file descriptor into filter_initialize.
>    DON'T BLAME MIMEDEFANG IF YOUR FILTER FAILS IN MYSTERIOUS AND
>    UNPREDICTABLE WAYS.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David.

Actually I don't see anything in the logs to indicate failure of the
SURBL lookups. I have tried using both embedded and not embedded perl to
run MD to no avail. Spamassassin is being called from the default
location in the distributed filter.example. 

Sven

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