RE: [Sendmail-milter-users] Attempt to free non-existent shared string

[Johan E. <jo...@ek...>]

> There is a highly successful and stable product which provides =
sendmail
> milter functionality within Perl.  It is called PerlMx
> (www.activestate.com).  Unfortunately, its pricing makes it affordable
> only for large enterprises (I was quoted a price of US$8,000 for a
> license for a single-CPU server).

Yes. We also had to skip it because of the extreme costs.

> ActiveState makes available the patches to the Perl sources that are =
used
> in the Perl engine that powers PerlMx.  I tried building a Perl 5.6.1 =
with
> their patches,  and running Sendmail::Milter under it.  Unfortunately, =
it
> was still unstable.  I conclude that the problems are within
> Sendmail::Milter,  not Perl.

Well, I'm not too sure about that. The patches from ActiveState may very =
well correct issues regarding PerlMx, but that is no guarantee that =
these are the same things causing trouble with Sendmail::Milter. Perl =
threading is very complicated and not so easily fixed, or it would have =
been done already.

Anyway, seems our only option is to anticipate future improvments to =
Perl threading in general and to Sendmail::Milter in particular. In the =
meantime I'll stick to C for all serious miltering. It takes longer to =
code but it's fast and reliable when finally deployed.

Regards,
/Johan Ekenberg