mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can’t locate object method “seek” via package “File::Temp ” at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/MIME/Parser.pm line 816

This is the error message I have seen in my Linux+Postfix+Amavisd-new system. Not only that, but Amavis has kept a copy of each message in its tmp directory, which reduced my /var size to nothing quite rapidly.

amavis[21189]: (21189-01) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-200
80103T051116-21189

Doesn’t sound too good.

Partial search in google has produced the following mailing list compressed archive, which pointed me onwards. It could either be a problem with Amavis, or with Perl.

After some further investigation, it appears that RpmForge has released a non-compatible version of perl-MIME-tools – from 5.420 to 5.425-1-test. It was quite disappointing, but I had to downgrade the perl package to its origin (the latest which worked), and to force yum never to upgrade that specific package.

This one will be on a different post (for the sake of order and search ability).