Re: [exim] I've modified Erik Mugele's exim_surbl.pl utility…

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Odhiambo Washington
CC: exim-users, Martin A. Brooks
Subject: Re: [exim] I've modified Erik Mugele's exim_surbl.pl utility for blocking URIBL in Exim


Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Martin A. Brooks <martin@???> wrote:
>
>> Marc Perkel wrote:
>>
>>> Definitely looking for feedback and improvements on this.
>>>
>>>
>> Any allegedly production quality Perl code needs to start with "use
>> strict; use warnings;". This scripts fails to pass "perl -cw" when those
>> are added. Happy to revisit when it does so.
>>
>>
>
> You are very right Martin. However, this script has been around for
> ages and despite the fact that it fails the perl -cw, it's worked to
> serve the purpose for which it was meant. It could be inefficient but
> has been very accurate. I can attest to this.
> As applies to almost all free code, you use at your own risk.
>
>


The part of the code that creates those errors is not the part I
modified. That's the original code. I'm not much of a perl guy but if
someone sent me a patch that fixes it I'd appreciate it. Otherwise I'll
eventually get around to it.