[SA-exim] SA-Exim 2.0 released

Marc MERLIN marc at merlins.org
Fri, 14 Jun 2002 21:57:27 -0700


On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:57:53PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> | I forgot to mention, you'll also want to upgrade to SA CVS, or the rumoured
> | soon to be released 2.30.
> | I put a lot of work in SA to make sure it was time bound and fit to run at
> | SMTP time.
> 
> It was released twice tonight :-).  I expect to see the .deb soon.
 
Yeah, saw that.
I already have my deb since I've been building one in the meantime.

You can find my version here:
http://marc.merlins.org/tmp/

I'll probably release a new version with a couple of paches against 2.30
 
> | If you upgrade to SA pre 2.30, sa-exim 2.0b1 and older will fail to parse
> | the X-Spam-Status that SA now generates.
> 
> Do you mean SA newer than 2.20 but older than 2.30?
   
Nope, sa-exim 2.0b1 or older will not work with SA 2.30
(it broke sometime along 2.21cvs)

> | It's a multiline header now.
> | Probably just as well, because the line was getting quite long.
> 
> That's all?  It's already multiline (sometimes) and the mutt hooks are
> handling it just fine.  I thought maybe they rearranged the order or
> name of the arguments.
    
Mutt should be fine. My code wasn't.
    
> | http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444
> 
> | I just read they're apparently not going to fix that for SA 2.30
> 
> Duncan has a patch already.  Cool.  I'll have to patch my local copy
> to not spew that list at all (when the package is uploaded).
 
Yep, same here.
 
> It certainly is easier to not generate the text than it is to parse it
> and reliably throw away what you don't want.

Yep.

> | Exim has a safeguard, but it will just die if it detects that you are trying
> | to write too much data.
> 
> Nice.  Does it die an quick and honorable death or does it writh in

Logs to mainlog and exits.

Marc
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