[AMaViS-user] install problems

[Ninti S. <of...@ni...>]

I'm new to amavis and am finding installation a bit of a struggle ...
endless perl problems it seems. I'm on Slackware 9.1 with perl 5.8. I'm
working with the amavis-ng-0.1.6.4 tarball.

I need to get a few basics straight. First, there appear to be at least
three versions of amavis (amavisd, amavis-ng, amavis-new etc) ... which
one should I be using? I am trying to set up amavis with clamav and
postfix. clam and postfix are both working fine.

Secondly, is there a problem in using perl 5.8? Is it necessary to
downgrade to 5.6? 

I have solved a stack of issues but can't get past this:

   AMAVIS: Couldn't load AMAVIS::Extract::Mail  at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/AMAVIS.pm line 247.


To try to solve this I've hit CPAN hard for all manner of modules. Now
I'm stuck on this:

v-string in use/require non-portable at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Field/ParamVal.pm line 66, <GEN2>
line 520.


Any advice greatly appreciated.