From prlawrence@lehigh.edu Thu Aug 29 11:06:07 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B877D44163 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 06:04:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:04:54 +0100 (IST) Received: from cc.lehigh.edu (ironmail1.cc.lehigh.edu [128.180.39.26]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7SKpLZ09799 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:51:21 +0100 Received: from ([128.180.39.20]) by ironmail1.cc.lehigh.edu with ESMTP with TLS; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:49:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lehigh.edu (Roamer052031.dept.Lehigh.EDU [128.180.52.31]) by rain.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7SKnlMS021052; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:49:47 -0400 Message-Id: <3D6D3763.3060300@lehigh.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:49:39 -0400 From: Phil R Lawrence User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Mason Cc: spamassassin-talk@example.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [SAtalk] testing the install References: <20020815174924.951B743C34@phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Justin Mason wrote: > Phil R Lawrence said: > > >>>something to watch out for is to use "nomime" => 1 in the Mail::Audit >>>ctor; the M:A folks changed the API there. >> >>What has MIME to do with it? I read in perldoc M:A that your suggestion >>is less expensive, but how does that help S:A? > > > M:A, for some reason, changes its base class depending on whether the > incoming message is mime or not. Therefore the Mail::Internet methods > suddenly become unavailable for MIME messages... > > (you do *not* want to know what I thought of that when I found it ;) As a new user of SA, I guess I'm having trouble connecting the dots. If I understand you: If I don't use the "nomime" => 1 option and I recieve MIME mail, the Mail::Internet modules become unavailable. Unavailable for which? MA? SA? What do these methods do? Does this mean my incoming MIME mail won't be checked by SA unless I specify "nomime" => 1? Thanks, Phil