Item8170: Can't locate Email/FolderType/Net.pm when running mailincron

I installed foswiki-mailincontrib 090204-195 from the debian repository.

After configuring the incoming email server and user I attempted to run mailincron as follows:

cd /usr/lib/cgi-bin/foswiki/
/var/lib/foswiki/tools/mailincron

I get the following error:

Can't locate Email/FolderType/Net.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /var/lib/foswiki/lib /etc/foswiki . /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /var/lib/foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Contrib/MailInContrib.pmline 30.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/lib/foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Contrib/MailInContrib.pm line 30.
Compilation failed in require at /var/lib/foswiki/tools/mailincron line 29.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/lib/foswiki/tools/mailincron line 29.

-- ChrisPurves - 01 Jun 2009

The following perl modules were not in Debian repositories and so I had to install from CPAN: Email::FolderType::Net, Email::Delete, Email::Folder::POP3

In addition, mailincron cound not find Email/Delete/POP3.pm which was located in /var/lib/foswiki/lib/CPAN/lib, so I created a softlink /var/lib/foswiki/lib/Email pointing to /var/lib/foswiki/lib/CPAN/lib/Email.

Things appear to be working now.

-- ChrisPurves - 01 Jun 2009

please let me know if this works without creating the extra symlink (you sure shouldn't have to do that):

Index: mailincron
===================================================================
--- mailincron  (revision 6768)
+++ mailincron  (working copy)
@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@
 use strict;

 BEGIN {
-    unshift @INC, '.';
+    if (-e './setlib.cfg') {
+       unshift @INC, '.';
+    } elsif (-e '../bin/setlib.cfg') {
+       unshift @INC, '../bin';
+    }
     require 'setlib.cfg';
 }

and/or maybe it's missing documentation? for example, mailnotify says:

 # Mail notification script. You must add the Foswiki bin dir to the
 # search path for this script, so it can find the rest of Foswiki e.g.
 # perl -I /usr/local/foswiki/bin /usr/local/foswiki/tools/mailnotify

i don't think this is anything debian-specific (except the paths), so i'm setting it to MailInContrib. if what i posted above does work, all tools scripts should be reviewed and updated.

i have created Item8726 for the missing debian dependencies, and i have raised the dependencies issue in Item2157 and in DebianPackagingTaskTeam

-- WillNorris - 18 Mar 2010

Sorry for taking so long to reply. I just tried the modification to mailincron; it had no effect. It looks to me that it boils down to lib/CPAN/lib missing from the INC path as described in Item230. Although this was apparently fixed a long time ago.

-- ChrisPurves - 13 Sep 2010

I modified LocalLib.cfg to replace

$CPANBASE = 1;

with

$CPANBASE = "/var/lib/foswiki/lib/CPAN/lib";

That did fix the problem. I suspect that the problem might be that the Debian packaged config files assume that all perl modules will come from Debian repositories and will not be installed from CPAN.

-- ChrisPurves - 13 Sep 2010

See Item8276

-- CrawfordCurrie - 07 May 2014

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