Hi, well I solved the problem. In the virtual users home directory was an old .spambayesrc file in a wrong format. The sb_filter.py tried to interpret that file and crashed. I haven't seen that problem by invoking sb_filter.py manually because it was a virtual user that only exists in mysql. The real system user for mail is "vmail". If I invoked the command manually as vmail user, spambayes looked in /home/vmail for a .spambayesrc file which doesn't exist, so it worked. If maildrop invoked that command with xfilter, $HOME was /home/vmail/domain/user where the wrong .spambayesrc existed, so it failed. bye, b52

Hi guys,

maybe someone can help me with this one. I configured postfix to transport every mail with maildrop and included a maildrop rule to pipe incomming mails to sb_filter.py If this happens I get the following error in mail.log:

Apr 24 03:08:20 hades postfix/pipe[29142]: 6F04D27CA: to=<b52@entrap.de>, relay=maildrop, delay=3, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/sb_filter.py", line 80, in ? from spambayes import hammie, Options, mboxutils, storage File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/hammie.py", line 5, in ? from spambayes import storage File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/storage.py", line 68, in ? from spambayes import classifier File "/usr/ lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/classifier.py", line 73, in ? from spambayes.Options import options File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/Options.py", line 1263, in ? load_options() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/Option s.py", line 1195, in load_options options.merge_files(alts) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/OptionsClass.py", line 521, in merge_files self.merge_file(f) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spam

Well to tell you the truth I don't understand that message at all. Maybe some python geeks do.. My maildrop rule is:

xfilter "/usr/bin/sb_filter.py -d /home/vmail/bayes.db"

I tried xfilter with another binary and it works fine. Thanks for any help bye, b52