Re: Strange message with spamassassin

On Sun, 9 Aug 2026 17:44:12 +0200
Andrea Venturoli <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I've been using spamassassing for several years.
> After I upgraded to 2026Q3, I see the following message.
> 
> > # spamassassin -r 94023. 
> > Aug  9 17:37:11.358 [34869] warn: dns: resolver create failed:
> > Net::DNS required Aug  9 17:37:14.098 [34869] warn: plugin: eval
> > failed: Can't locate object method "new" via package
> > "Net::DNS::Resolver" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Net/DNS.pm
> > line 62.  
> 
> My lack of Perl knowledge doesn't allow me to understand what to do.
> Any idea?
> 
>   bye & Thanks
> 	av.
> 

Hi,

Coincidentally the following got reported. It seems that SA misbehave
when the ENV environment variable exists or is defined.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297394 

Could you check if your issue is related, or whether or not the ENV
environment variable is defined in your shell, and which shell it is?

A wild guess is that it looks like there is a bug in SA that messes up
perl's %ENV when ENV exists in the shell environment, somehow.
(Net::DNS looks up environment variables during initialization, for the
mentioned PR it looks like the PATH was mangled?)

Best regards,

Benjamin