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i run

spamassassin -V
SpamAssassin version 3.4.6
running on Perl version 5.34.1

i maintain GeoIP2 data updates from MaxMind,

systemctl status geoipdb
? geoipdb.service - update geoipdb service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/geoipdb.service; static)
Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2022-08-30 14:55:17 EDT; 22s ago
TriggeredBy: ? geoipdb.timer
Process: 34949 ExecStart=/usr/bin/geoipupdate (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 34949 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CPU: 265ms

which execs

/usr/bin/geoipupdate

to maintain / populate

tree /usr/share/GeoIP/
/usr/share/GeoIP/
??? GeoLite2-ASN.mmdb
??? GeoLite2-City.mmdb
??? GeoLite2-Country.mmdb

RelayCountry plugin is enabled / in use

grep RelayCountry init.pre
# RelayCountry - add metadata for Bayes learning, marking the countries
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry

for use with the GeoIP2 data,

https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/blob/39ea11b27b55f99a945d2542779175d393d35334/build/announcements/3.4.2.txt#L96
"GeoIP2 support has been added to RelayCountry and URILocalBL plugins due
to GeoIP legacy API deprecations."

config points to the data above

cat local.cf
...
ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry
country_db_type GeoIP2
country_db_path /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb
add_header all Relay-Country _RELAYCOUNTRY_
endif
...

source for RelayCountry.pm

https://metacpan.org/dist/Mail-SpamAssassin/source/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/RelayCountry.pm

includes,

elsif ($country_db_type eq "GeoIP2") {
if (!$country_db_path) {
# Try some default locations
foreach (@{$opts->{conf}->{geoip2_default_db_path}}) {
if (-f $_) {
$country_db_path = $_;
last;
}
}
}
if (-f $country_db_path) {
eval {
require GeoIP2::Database::Reader;
$db = GeoIP2::Database::Reader->new(
file => $country_db_path,
locales => [ 'en' ]
);
die "unknown error" unless $db;
$db_info = sub {
my $m = $db->metadata();
return "GeoIP2 ".$m->description()->{en}." / ".localtime($m->build_epoch());
};
1;
} or do {
# Fallback to IP::Country::Fast
$@ =~ s/\s+Trace begun.*//s;
dbg("metadata: RelayCountry: GeoIP2: ${country_db_path} load failed: $@, trying IP::Country::Fast as fallback");
$country_db_type = "Fast";
}


which specifies 'require'

require GeoIP2::Database::Reader;

which, checking @ https://metacpan.org/dist/GeoIP2/source/lib/GeoIP2/Database/Reader.pm, further requires,

use Data::Validate::IP 0.25 qw( is_private_ip );
use GeoIP2::Error::Generic;
use GeoIP2::Error::IPAddressNotFound;
use GeoIP2::Model::ASN;
use GeoIP2::Model::AnonymousIP;
use GeoIP2::Model::City;
use GeoIP2::Model::ConnectionType;
use GeoIP2::Model::Country;
use GeoIP2::Model::Domain;
use GeoIP2::Model::Enterprise;
use GeoIP2::Model::Insights;
use GeoIP2::Model::ISP;
use GeoIP2::Types qw( Str );
use MaxMind::DB::Reader 1.000000;

where

https://metacpan.org/pod/MaxMind::DB::Reader

Deprecated.
The maintainer of this distribution has indicated that it is deprecated and no longer suitable for use.

and all (sub)modules under

https://metacpan.org/dist/GeoIP2

Deprecated.
The maintainer of this distribution has indicated that it is deprecated and no longer suitable for use.

verifying, @ https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services?lang=en, Perl support is in fact deprecated


Language or Framework
...
Node.js
!! Perl (deprecated) <--------------------------
PHP
Python
Ruby
...

What alternative, non-deprecated support, if any, exists, or is planned, for SA RelayCountry plugin usage with MaxMind GeoIP2 *.mmdb data?