Re: Pyzor and SpamAssassin and error 256

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

Kyle Wheeler, on 2003-06-03, wrote:

> 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).

Ah, yes, I forgot about that potential problem; thanks!  Concerning the
frequency of timeouts, I think I might make it so that pyzor re-tries
sending a packet maybe two times.

> 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...

This is a known problem in pyzor...I'll be adding some code so that this 
situation is handled more gracefully.

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Frank Tobin			http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/