[Mailman-Developers] mm-handler 2.1.10 (was: beforenextrelease:disable backscatter in default installation)

[David Champion]

> I don't have any preference. My version does depend on the presence of the 
> syslog module, and I don't know how commonly-installed that is. But I don't 
> know under what systems the debugging to stderr is supposed to work. Is 
> that a Sun thing?

IIRC stderr is captured by sendmail and logged in the bounce message,
but admittedly if you're not bouncing that's a problem.

I'd case out the syslog dependency, and use it only when available.
Last I looked, Perl's syslog module was... limited.  It doesn't even
work at all on some platforms -- something about trying to UDP to the
local syslogd instead of using syslog(3) through libc.  So it's more
portable to system out a call to logger(1) if you need syslogging and
can afford a fork/exec.

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