admin wrote: > Hi > > I have just a simple question and I did not find any exact answer. > Is NetWare or is NetWare going to be supported by SpamAssassin? > Thanks a lot for an answer. > Apparently Novell's perl is sufficiently broken that I highly doubt SpamAssassin will work on it.
I found this which was discussing a netmail plugin for SA: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/14353.html "Unfortunately, per the Perl for NetWare readme, the "fork method is not yet implemented on NetWare <http://developer.novell.com/ndk/readme/perl5.html#ak4jmuc>." Not too big a problem though, I can always use threads. Except "scripts that use the 'Thread' and 'threads' modules may not work as desired <http://developer.novell.com/ndk/readme/perl5.html#ak4jmgd>." Ok, no problem, guess I'll just have to use non-blocking IO. Unfortunately my tests indicate IO::Select does not work on NetWare either. Bottom line, there is no way I can see to do this in Perl on NetWare." While the author was trying to get perl to run his plugin for netmail, the lack of forking, threading, and nonblocking IO under perl is a severe deficiency. I know that SA 3.1.x's DnsResolver.pm uses nonblocking IO to poll sockets.. >
