[Spambayes] procmail not executing hammiefilter.py

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Aug 12 13:54:57 EDT 2003


    John> i'd like to get spambayes to run, but procmail doesn't let me. i
    John> get stuff like this in the logs:

    John> procmail: Executing "/home/johns/bin/spambayes/hammiefilter.py"
    John>   File "/home/johns/bin/spambayes/hammiefilter.py", line 89
    John>     print >> sys.stderr, msg
    John>            ^
    John> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    John> procmail: Program failure (1) of
    John> "/home/johns/bin/spambayes/hammiefilter.py"

Sounds like you're getting an old version of Python.  If hammiefilter.py is
run with a minimalist PATH it's probably picking up /usr/bin/python or
/usr/local/bin/python.

Skip





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