Pyzor and SpamAssassin and error 256

[Kyle W. <ky...@me...>]

Hello,

Like Jonathan Micheal Hawkins and Jeff Jackson, I'm having problems with
Pyzor and SpamAssassin. Namely, on some messages I get the following
error message:

Pyzor -> report failed: Received error code 256 at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Reporter.pm line 327.

Sometimes this is simply because Pyzor timed out (which happens with
alarming frequency, and doesn't seem to be handled very well). The Pyzor
protocol seems based around UDP, which makes it have occasional problems
with the iptables firewall that I go through (the UDP packets get denied on
the return trip from the Pyzor server sometimes).

Other times I get this error much more consistently for a specific
message. It will work fine if I pipe the mail directly to Pyzor, but not
when through SpamAssassin. I had SpamAssassin save off the stderr of
Pyzor when this happens. Anyone have any ideas as to why it might be
happening? It *looks* like the spam message is somehow shorter than
Pyzor is expecting...

Here's the stderr:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pyzor", line 4, in ?
    pyzor.client.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 934, in run
    ExecCall().run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 188, in run
    if not apply(dispatch, (self, args)):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 282, in rep=
ort
    for digest in FileDigester(sys.stdin, self.digest_spec, do_mbox):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 615, in __i=
nit__
    self.digester =3D iter(get_file_digester(fp, spec, mbox))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 632, in get=
_file_digester
    return (DataDigester(rfc822BodyCleaner(fp),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 679, in __i=
nit__
    self.curfile =3D self.__class__(self.multifile)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 671, in __i=
nit__
    mimetools.decode(msg.fp, self.curfile, encoding)
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/mimetools.py", line 137, in decode
    return base64.decode(input, output)
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/base64.py", line 29, in decode
    line =3D input.readline()
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/multifile.py", line 80, in readline
    raise Error, 'sudden EOF in MultiFile.readline()'
multifile.Error: sudden EOF in MultiFile.readline()

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