On 20 Jun 2020, at 4:14, Neil Romig wrote:
Does anyone know the status of AuthCourier.pm in Spamassassin?
It *NEVER* has been in any way an official part of the SpamAssassin
project. I can find no evidence of it being updated since 2003. If you
have kept SpamAssassin updated since then without reproducing the manual
adaptations needed to use AuthCourier.pm, you are almost certainly no
longer using in any meaningful way.
In general, the supported interface between SpamAssassin and 3rd-party
modules has changed so much in the past 17 years that I would not expect
AuthCourier.pm to function correctly. In addition, as you reported in
bug 7829, Perl itself has advanced in that time to the point where
relatively immature modules which worked then (e.g. with Perl 5.8.x) can
be expected to fail today with any recent version of Perl.
I have installed spamassassin and followed advice at
http://da.andaka.org/Doku/courier-spamassassin.html but on reporting a
bug (#7829) to Spamassassin was informed it was an "ancient" module I
probably shouldn't be using.
I don't want to experiment any more than necessary on my mail server
so perhaps someone can confirm whether I need this module for my
virtual mail users.
You probably do not need it, since there is now direct support for
virtual users in the spamd component of SpamAssassin. I suspect that the
reason AuthCourier.pm was not maintained is that it became superfluous,
however others would need to confirm that, as I do not use that
functionality.
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