Re: sendmail or perl: which is the bad one..

[Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Robert Waldner wrote:

> Just wanted to do a minor tweak to my sendmail-config at home, whilst
>  stumbling into:
>
> root@wz:/etc/mail# sendmailconfig
> Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y]
> Updating sendmail environment ...
> Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions at
>  /usr/share/sendmail/parse_mc line 246.
> Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions at
>  /usr/share/sendmail/parse_mc line 246.
> Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions at
>  /usr/share/sendmail/parse_mc line 262.
> <repeat ad nauseam>
[snip]
> (I have both 5.004.05-6 and 5.005.03-7.1 installed, don´t ask me why,
>  apt did it ;-) )

Yup, perl is to old to understand character classes

> sendmail is "8.11.3+8.12.0.Beta7-8".

I corrected that problem in a later sendmail release - upgrade
and you should be fine.

-- 
Rick Nelson
Now I can finally explain to everyone why I do this.  I just got $7 worth
of free stuff for working on Debian !