Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:18:13 -0400 From: Kevin Kobb <kkobb@skylinecorp.com> To: Johan Hendriks <Johan@double-l.nl> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating the "Mailscanner" port Message-ID: <4A858035.80107@skylinecorp.com> In-Reply-To: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB5DEAEE@w2003s01.double-l.local> References: <20090325090758.1015bc2a@scorpio> <20090326100430.GI56137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20090331014900.GA24235@lonesome.com><1f8447334a4d96d2edfc74608d16f794.squirrel@wettoast.dyndns.org> <4A855E0C.3090805@skylinecorp.com> <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB5DEAEE@w2003s01.double-l.local>
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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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> > "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >>> >>> >> 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 > > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.55/2301 - Release Date: > 08/13/09 18:16:00 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > 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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