Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello! > > I'm using python 3.2.3 on debian wheezy. My script is called from my mail > delivery agent (MDA) maildrop (like procmail) through it's xfilter > directive. > > Script works fine when used interactively, e.g. ./script.py < testmail but > when called from maildrop it's producing an infamous UnicodeDecodeError: > > File "/home/flindner/flofify.py", line 171, in main > mail = sys.stdin.read() > File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode > return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] > > Exception for example is always like > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 869: > ordinal not in range(128) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode > byte 0xc3 in position 1176: ordinal not in range(128) UnicodeDecodeError: > 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8c in position 846: ordinal not in > range(128) > > I read mail from stdin "mail = sys.stdin.read()" > > Environment when called is: > > locale.getpreferredencoding(): ANSI_X3.4-1968 > environ["LANG"]: C > > System environment when using shell is: > > ~ % echo $LANG > en_US.UTF-8 > > As far as I know when reading from stdin I don't need an decode(...) call, > since stdin has a decoding. I also tried some decoding/encoding stuff but > changed nothing. > > Any ideas to help me?
I known nothing about maildrop, but found > add "import LANG" to .maildropfilter. in this thread: <http://courier-mail-server.10983.n7.nabble.com/Maildrop-behaviour-change- td18610.html> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list