Wallace and character encoding

Mat Cantin mat at cantinbrothers.ca
Mon Jun 3 23:15:02 CEST 2013


I came across this problem too. Since I don't use any of the Wallace 
features I just disabled it in the master.cf config.

Replace: -o content_filter=smtp-wallace:[127.0.0.1]:10026
With: -o content_filter=

No more mail getting stuck.

--
Mat


On 2013-05-30 5:23, Troy Carpenter wrote:
> There are two active bugs that I know of.  The first one sounds
> mostly like what you report:
> https://issues.kolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627
> https://issues.kolab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1884
> 
> I don't have an answer for you.  I've started checking my mailq on a
> regular basis throughout the day.  In fact, this morning I had 79
> messages stuck.  Right now the only way I've found to fix the problem
> is to reboot my mail server.  Fortunately, that doesn't take very
> long.
> 
> As for the email stuck in the wallace queue, someone earlier said
> they had a python script to re-inject the emails stuck there, but I
> didn't see the script.
> 
> On Thursday, May 30, 2013 09:54:17 AM Tobias Brunner wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I see that there are several problems reported regarding Wallace
>> crashing because of character conversion problems. The bug hit me,
>> too... Wallace stops accepting mails and they stay stuck in the 
>> Postfix
>> queue. I'm not sure if this bug could be fixed already, is it? The
>> version of Wallace installed on my Debian server is 0.5.12-1.
>> 
>> The error I get is:
>> error: uncaptured python exception, closing channel 
>> <smtpd.SMTPChannel
>> connected 127.0.0.1:56975 at 0x1e27488> (<type
>> 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>:'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xdf 
>> in
>> position 4108: invalid continuation byte
>> [/usr/lib/python2.7/asyncore.py|read|83]
>> [/usr/lib/python2.7/asyncore.py|handle_read_event|449]
>> [/usr/lib/python2.7/asynchat.py|handle_read|158]
>> [/usr/lib/python2.7/smtpd.py|found_terminator|181]
>> [/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wallace/__init__.py|process_message|263]
>> [/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py|dumps|238]
>> [/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py|encode|202]
>> [/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py|_iterencode|427]
>> [/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py|_iterencode_dict|383])
>> 
>> After restarting Wallace, connections are accepted again and mails 
>> are
>> delivered. But there are many mails stuck in
>> '/var/spool/pykolab/wallace/resources/incoming'. How can I resend 
>> this
>> mails?
>> 
>> Any idea what could be done to have Wallace stable again? I don't 
>> want
>> to disable Wallace.
>> 
>> Thanks for any help!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Tobias
>> 
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