… someone else with the same issue.

Setting up another system, and this time going through the various changes I had to figure out individually last time. (procmail, sendmail, apache, bind, etc)

Come to mimedefang 2.63. Made and all flawlessly, only the included examples/init-script or init-script.in fail with errors:

./rc.mimedefang: line 346: unexpected EOF while looking for matching “’
./rc.mimedefang: line 366: syntax error: unexpected end of file

(So I use slackware and I’m following the convention for startup scripts…)

Anyway, it seems the reason is, on line 246, it’s missing the last left-leaning apostrophe that the other lines have.

Figured that out after some caffeine and dutiful commenting until I narrowed it down.

Comment if you find this helpful. (my stats for this blog comes up on some strange search results).

1. Jian, December 12, 2007:

   Yes! It helped.
   Thanks for the tip:-)

2. Matt, December 16, 2007:

   Yup – Helped me too!
   If you haven’t already, I’ll submit a patch/fix for this to the mimedefang list for inclusion in future releases.

   Thanks for your help!

3. xristini, December 17, 2007:

   It was very helpful!
   You are great!:)

4. lamerfreak, December 20, 2007:

   Matt – I emailed someone else I found posting about it and he indicated it had been fixed in the later sources. (shrug) I put this here because it took me long enough to find anything useful via google the first time, so I hoped it would help others a little faster than I discovered…

5. bluecrab, January 9, 2008:

   THANK YOU!! Sure enough, line 246 was missing the back-tick (`)