In Progress CPANEL-40473 - Autoresponder throws "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation"

[LoadFactor]

I have an autoresponder generating Perl errors and can't figure out why. The user's JSON file is valid:

{"stop":1655132400,"interval":10800,"start":null}

The message itself looks good, UTF-8 charset, line endings are LF.

The full error is:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at bin/autorespond.pl line 87, <STDIN> line 28.

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! It sounds like you're experiencing this recent issue:

https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/5529854966807

Can you confirm if that is the case? There is a potential workaround listed in that article, and it is fixed in cPanel & WHM version 104.0.1.

 

[LoadFactor]

Yup. That's it. No need to do the workaround, if they score as spam, they get what they get.

Thanks cPRex!

 

[cPRex]

You're welcome!!

 

[stormy]

I'm experiencing this on 102.0.18. I'm on the STABLE branch and plan on staying with 102 LTS. How can I fix this? The listed workaround doesn't seem like a workaround at all.

 

[cPRex]

@stormy - I did reach out to the developers and they do plan to include a fix for version 102 soon. I'll be sure to post once I have more details on that.