Re: New error message: Unmatched '<>'

[Axb <ax...@gmail.com>]

On 08/31/2013 04:24 PM, Marc Andre Selig wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed this error message today after the weekly mass-check run:
>
> | Unmatched '<>' in "OnlineDoctorate"<mallets;44@bella3deals.com;>^M at
> | /usr/share/perl5/Mail/Address.pm line 161.
>
> The same error message (with "^M" replaced by "_") was logged by spamd
> on the mail server when the message arrived in the first place.
>
> The offending message [for my reference: it's in file
> 1376470986.3281_162.falun:2,S] has this malformed line:
>
> | From: "OnlineDoctorate" <mallets;44@bella3deals.com;>
>
> /usr/share/perl5/Mail/Address.pm is of course a file provided by the host
> system; it's from Mail::Address 2.06, installed through Debian oldstable,
> package libmailtools-perl 2.06-1.
>
> While the address is clearly malformed, SpamAssassin should be able to
> handle the message without throwing an error message.  After all, lots
> of spam messages contain malformed parts, but the sysadmin is probably
> not interested in knowing about them.
>
> Mail::Address seems to be at 2.12 right now.  I have not checked whether
> upgrading it makes any difference.

Running Centos 6.4 & Mail::Address installed on my main masscheck box

on a second box which also does a smaller corpus I have

perl -MMail::Address -e 'print "$Mail::Address::VERSION\n"'
2.04

and no errors.

Updating that module may solve your problem before ppl start looking 
into SA for errors