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[Lukasz Szybalski]

On 11/8/06, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
> Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> >
> >I put the original smtplib.py file back in /varlib/python.3/smtplib.py
> >and i get the same problem again.
> >
> >Nov 08 16:41:31 2006 (13973) Low level smtp error: [Errno 9] Bad file
> >descriptor, msgid:
> ><804e5c70611081443y26603704gdecfae9847cf64f4 at xxx.xxxx.com>
> >Nov 08 16:46:31 2006 (13973) delivery to xxxxx at xxx.com failed with
> >code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> >Nov 08 16:46:31 2006 (13973) Low level smtp error: [Errno 9] Bad file
> >descriptor, msgid: <455209CD.20560.1BA7A89 at xxxx.xxxx.org>
> >Nov 08 16:46:31 2006 (13973) delivery to xxxx at xxxx.com failed with
> >code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> >
> >So i guess i will stick with the file i got from debian bug
>
>
> Please post a 'diff -u' between the smtplib.py that works and the one
> that doesn't work.
>
> Lionel says that effectively all he changed in your working version was
> writing debug output to sys.stderr instead of stdout, and when I
> diffed Lionel's version with the Python 2.3.4 base, that's the only
> change I saw, but there must be something else in your case or else
> simply enabling the debug prints causes the problem because of the
> writes to stdout, but then what caused the original problem.
>
> In any case, I am very interested to see if there is some other change
> in your original smtplib.py that is causing it to fail.
>

Please not the smtlib.py is the one given to me and smtlib.py.1 is the
original one causing the problem.
I posted the whole file to debian bug report also.

xxx at xxx:/usr/lib/python2.3$ diff -u smtplib.py smtplib.py.1
--- smtplib.py  2006-11-03 11:35:49.000000000 -0600
+++ smtplib.py.1        2006-11-03 12:41:55.000000000 -0600
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 #
 # This was modified from the Python 1.5 library HTTP lib.

-import sys
 import socket
 import re
 import rfc822
@@ -283,17 +282,17 @@
                 except ValueError:
                     raise socket.error, "nonnumeric port"
         if not port: port = SMTP_PORT
-        if self.debuglevel > 0: print >> sys.stderr, 'connect:', (host, port)
+        if self.debuglevel > 0: print 'connect:', (host, port)
         msg = "getaddrinfo returns an empty list"
         self.sock = None
         for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
             af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res
             try:
                 self.sock = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto)
-                if self.debuglevel > 0: print >> sys.stderr,
'connect:', (host, port)
+                if self.debuglevel > 0: print 'connect:', (host, port)
                 self.sock.connect(sa)
             except socket.error, msg:
-                if self.debuglevel > 0: print >> sys.stderr, 'connect
fail:', (host, port)
+                if self.debuglevel > 0: print 'connect fail:', (host, port)
                 if self.sock:
                     self.sock.close()
                 self.sock = None
@@ -302,12 +301,12 @@
         if not self.sock:
             raise socket.error, msg
         (code, msg) = self.getreply()
-        if self.debuglevel > 0: print >> sys.stderr, "connect:", msg
+        if self.debuglevel > 0: print "connect:", msg
         return (code, msg)

     def send(self, str):
         """Send `str' to the server."""
-        if self.debuglevel > 0: print >> sys.stderr, 'send:', `str`
+        if self.debuglevel > 0: print 'send:', `str`
         if self.sock:
             try:
                 self.sock.sendall(str)
@@ -346,7 +345,7 @@
             if line == '':
                 self.close()
                 raise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly closed")
-            if self.debuglevel > 0: print >> sys.stderr, 'reply:', `line`
+            if self.debuglevel > 0: print 'reply:', `line`
             resp.append(line[4:].strip())
             code=line[:3]
             # Check that the error code is syntactically correct.
@@ -362,7 +361,7 @@

         errmsg = "\n".join(resp)
         if self.debuglevel > 0:
-            print >> sys.stderr, 'reply: retcode (%s); Msg: %s' %
(errcode,errmsg)
+            print 'reply: retcode (%s); Msg: %s' % (errcode,errmsg)
         return errcode, errmsg

     def docmd(self, cmd, args=""):
@@ -475,7 +474,7 @@
         """
         self.putcmd("data")
         (code,repl)=self.getreply()
-        if self.debuglevel >0 : print >> sys.stderr, "data:", (code,repl)
+        if self.debuglevel >0 : print "data:", (code,repl)
         if code != 354:
             raise SMTPDataError(code,repl)
         else:
@@ -485,7 +484,7 @@
             q = q + "." + CRLF
             self.send(q)
             (code,msg)=self.getreply()
-            if self.debuglevel >0 : print >> sys.stderr, "data:", (code,msg)
+            if self.debuglevel >0 : print "data:", (code,msg)
             return (code,msg)

     def verify(self, address):
xxx at xxx:/usr/lib/python2.3$

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395493


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