new ticket creation fails: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'

[gdh@…]

Hi - I've used dpkg-buildpackage on Ubuntu hardy to build email2trac 0.70 with trac 0.11. Trying either run_email2trac in /etc/aliases, or email2trac in /etc/aliases.nobody (chowned + postalias'd) fails with this error when I run 'mail tracproj <msg.txt'

Feb 23 12:56:54 dev postfix/qmgr[25750]: F07E51F49FE: from=<root@…>, size=2214, nrcpt=1 (que ue active) Feb 23 12:56:55 dev email2trac: Traceback (most recent call last): Feb 23 12:56:55 dev email2trac: File "/usr/bin/email2trac", line 1466, in <module> tktparser.parse(sys .stdin) Feb 23 12:56:55 dev email2trac: File "/usr/bin/email2trac", line 835, in parse m.replace_header('Subje ct', mSubject?.replace('\r', ).replace('\n', )) Feb 23 12:56:55 dev email2trac: AttributeError?: 'NoneType?' object has no attribute 'replace' Feb 23 12:56:55 dev postfix/local[25758]: F07E51F49FE: to=<tracproj@…>, orig_to=<tracproj>, relay=local, delay=0.44, delays=0.02/0.01/0/0.42, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with status 1: "/usr/bin/email2trac ". Command output: TD: saving email to /tmp/tmpSOrsIb.email2trac )

If I run 'email2trac <msg.txt' manually from the commandline as root, then the new ticket is created OK :/

My /etc/aliases.nobody is this one line: tracproj: |"/usr/bin/email2trac "

[anonymous]

Arg, wiki quoting

Feb 23 12:56:54 dev postfix/qmgr[25750]: F07E51F49FE: from=<root@dev.laterooms.com>, size=2214, nrcpt=1 (que
ue active)
Feb 23 12:56:55 dev email2trac: Traceback (most recent call last): 
Feb 23 12:56:55 dev email2trac:   File "/usr/bin/email2trac", line 1466, in <module>     tktparser.parse(sys
.stdin) 
Feb 23 12:56:55 dev email2trac:   File "/usr/bin/email2trac", line 835, in parse     m.replace_header('Subject', m['Subject'].replace('\r', '').replace('\n', '')) 

Feb 23 12:56:55 dev email2trac: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace' 

Feb 23 12:56:55 dev postfix/local[25758]: F07E51F49FE: to=<tracproj@dev.laterooms.com>, orig_to=<tracproj>, relay=local, delay=0.44, delays=0.02/0.01/0/0.42, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with status 1: "/usr/bin/email2trac ". Command output: TD: saving email to /tmp/tmpSOrsIb.email2trac )

[anonymous]

Did you send an email with an empty Subject?

[anonymous]

Hi.

No, as described above I have been using the test 'msg.txt' that comes in the email2trac tarball

[anonymous]

That is weird. Is the message correctly dumped in /tmp/tmpSOrsIb.email2trac?

[anonymous]

Yes. I just did a 'diff -u' between the /tmp one and msg.txt.. and the only difference is the extra header block from my local MTA

Interestingly, if I comment out line 835, the script runs without error, although it just dumps the whole raw RFC822 message into a new ticket without setting the title or picking attachments out from the body text

Also interestingly, that line seems to be a hack in itself!

# Work around lack of header folding in Python; see ​http://bugs.python.org/issue4696 # m.replace_header('Subject', mSubject?.replace('\r', ).replace('\n', ))

The version of Python on my system is 2.5.2

[anonymous]

So for email2trac it is not a valid message if it dumps the complete email message. So we must generate a more sensible error message. So it must be in the extra header that your local MTA inserts.

[anonymous]

Hm, I just have Postfix with an utterly standard 'Internet system' config.. here's the output from the 'diff -u' I mentioned above:

diff -u tmpzmtgPw.email2trac /home/gdh/email2trac-0.70/msg.txt 
--- tmpzmtgPw.email2trac	2009-02-23 14:44:41.000000000 +0000
+++ /home/gdh/email2trac-0.70/msg.txt	2006-05-22 10:44:59.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,15 +1,4 @@
-From root@dev.laterooms.com  Mon Feb 23 14:44:41 2009
-Return-Path: <root@dev.laterooms.com>
-X-Original-To: tracproj
-Delivered-To: tracproj@dev.laterooms.com
-Received: by dev.laterooms.com (Postfix, from userid 0)
-	id 1FE451F49FE; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:44:41 +0000 (GMT)
-To: tracproj@dev.laterooms.com
-Message-Id: <20090223144441.1FE451F49FE@dev.laterooms.com>
-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:44:41 +0000 (GMT)
-From: root@dev.laterooms.com (root)
-
->From basv@sara.nl  Wed Mar  8 15:29:17 2006
+From basv@sara.nl  Wed Mar  8 15:29:17 2006
 Return-Path: <basv@sara.nl>
 X-Original-To: test@subtrac.sara.nl
 Delivered-To: test@subtrac.sara.nl

I can't see anything wrong with that ...

[anonymous]

Can you attach the dumped message. Then i can test it with:

• email2trac < dump.msg

I suspect that the following line:

->From basv@sara.nl  Wed Mar  8 15:29:17 2006
+From basv@sara.nl  Wed Mar  8 15:29:17 2006

[anonymous]

OK I just tried generating a real email using mutt with attachments and it's worked absolutely fine.. so looks like I wasted a ton of time because of a malformed sample file in the tarball. grrrrr.

Thanks for your time all the same - now I have to make the replies work gracefully. :)

[anonymous]

The msg.txt is just fine it is just for testing email2trac standalone without the MTA.

[anonymous]

Yes I can confirm the msg.txt test email will not work with postfix. I'm usinfg email2trac 0.80 greetz alvaro

[bas]

huh, did you read the docs? It just for testing email2trac not postfix!