286206 - parameter $person not accessable from fixed sample code

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 280911

(Bugzilla :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[zxd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.40607)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.40607)

in section 2.4.1.3. Code changes required to run on win32, a sample code gived 
to use Net::SMTP instead /usr/lib/sendmail in Bugmail.pm of sub MessageToMTA
().  it causes prase error.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fix bugmail.pm as sample
2. try do something
3.

Actual Results:  
Software error:
Global symbol "$person" requires explicit package name at Bugzilla/BugMail.pm 
line 886.
Compilation failed in require at Bugzilla/Flag.pm line 39.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Bugzilla/Flag.pm line 39.
Compilation failed in require at Bugzilla/Attachment.pm line 35.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Bugzilla/Attachment.pm line 35.
Compilation failed in require at Bugzilla/Bug.pm line 38.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Bugzilla/Bug.pm line 38.
Compilation failed in require 
at /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi line 34.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted 
at /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi line 34.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([e-mail]), giving this 
error message and the time and date of the error. 


Expected Results:  
mail should be send without error

this can fix it:

1. do fix as the document says
2. also change this
   line 853 MessageToMTA($msg);  -->  MessageToMTA($msg, $person);
   line 862 my ($msg) = (@_);    -->  my ($msg, $person) = (@_);

Comment 1

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 280911 ***