On Wed, Jan 20 2016, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > Package: mailagent > Version: 1:3.1-81-1 > Severity: important
> I upgraded the perl package in my testing system to version 5.22.1-4
> today and mailagent ceased to work. I had error messages like the
> following one in the mailagent log file:
> 16/01/20 19:17:43 mailagent[178656]: ERROR Can't use
> 'defined(@array)' (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?) at (eval
> 1219) line 5, <DATA> chunk 618., while parsing code of
> compress'restore.
This should be reasonably easy to fix. I am afraid is this is
not the only bug that would be introduced; mailagent has not really
been updated beyond perl4 much, I am afraid.
> It is even worse than that: even though there were messages like these
> ones in the log file:
>
> 16/01/20 19:17:43 mailagent[178656]: NOTICE not saved, leaving in mailbox
> 16/01/20 19:17:43 mailagent[178656]: WARNING using
> /home/rafael/mbox.rafael for mailbox
>
> the non-filtered email messages were not saved anywhere. The file
> /home/rafael/mbox.rafael was not created, contrary to what is
> indicated above. I had severe email loss this afternoon!
>
> BTW, I considered raising the severity level of this bug report to
> "serious". However, I could find a workaround for the problem, by
> commenting the definitions for the configuration variables "compress",
> "compspecs", and "comptag" in my ~/.mailagent file.
> I apologize for not proposing a patch. Hacking the Perl code in
> /usr/bin/mailagent is far beyond my current aptitudes.
I’ll take a crack at it.
manoj
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