Re: tmda-ofmipd: the dreaded TypeError: Expected list, got <type 'str'>

Dave Steinberg wrote:
> GNUs (as I understand it) is a non-smtp MUA.  So it goes like this:
> 
> GNUs (via sendmail binary) -> postfix -> tmda-ofmipd

OK. Interesting. I doubt it's the same issue I was thinking of then - 
it's extremely unlikely that postfix is not "Seeing" tmda-ofmipd just 
drop a connection.

To confirm this, please look at the either/both:

* postfix logs for when it delivers the message to tmda-ofmipd.

* Run tmda-ofmipd in debug mode and you should also see all the protocol 
responses that get sent back.

Given the flow you mentioned, I expect it to log a that tmda-ofmipd 
reported a 250 message indicating successful forwarding of the message 
to the configured destination.

> Error: failure delivering message to command 
> "['/usr/local/bin/tmda-inject', 'REDACTED2']" (comman
> d "['/usr/local/bin/tmda-inject', 'REDACTED2']" exited 1  (Traceback 
> (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/bin/tmda-inject", line 116, in ?
> orig_msgout_as_string = Util.msg_as_string(msgout) 
> File "./TMDA/Util.py", line 552, in msg_as_string
> File "./TMDA/pythonlib/email/generator.py", line 84, in flatten
> File "./TMDA/pythonlib/email/generator.py", line 109, in _write
> File "./TMDA/pythonlib/email/generator.py", line 135, in _dispatch
> File "./TMDA/pythonlib/email/generator.py", line 266, in _handle_message
> File "./TMDA/pythonlib/email/message.py", line 185, in get_payload
> TypeError: Expected list, got <type 'str'>))

This exception is inside tmda-inject. It would be interesting to know 
why it's happening, but it's probably best to concentrate first on why 
the error isn't propagated to tmda-ofmipd and hence back to postfix.

Looking at the code, I honestly can't see why this is happening. I'll 
need to think about it a little. Sorry.

> Sorry if I misled on this originally, clearly not my intention.

No problem! I'm just not familiar with GNUS.

> PS - I'll try your patch for tmda-ofmipd in the morning.  Any chance it 
> could make its way into the trunk?

There is some disagreement whether it's the right thing to do; see the 
archives...