[Spambayes] Occasional error

Tue May 4 15:53:31 EDT 2004

On 3 May 2004 at 11:36, Tony Meyer wrote:

> >  .TypeError: string payload expected: <type 'list'>
<snip>
> 
> Reports of this are quickly becoming more common.  We're working on
> a fix and will try and get it into the next release.

If it's any help, it pretty much always seems to be mails very 
similar to this one (they might even be identical - i can keep them 
if you want me to). I thought it might help in working out what's 
causing the problem if you haveb't already done so:

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Return-path: <EZTGJUVPHMG at arcor-ip.net>
Envelope-to: nickchalloner-1 at pophost.123-reg.co.uk
Delivery-date: Tue, 04 May 2004 19:38:00 +0100
Received: from mx0.123-reg.co.uk ([212.67.202.212] helo=mx7.123-
reg.co.uk)
	by pophost.123-reg.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #5)
	id 1BL4no-00029l-00
	for nickchalloner-1 at pophost.123-reg.co.uk; Tue, 04 May 2004 19:38:00 
+0100
Received: from [24.62.21.198] 
(helo=h000ae647c934.ne.client2.attbi.com)
	by mx7.123-reg.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.36 #3)
	id 1BL4nw-0007e1-00; Tue, 04 May 2004 19:38:08 +0100
Received: from 1.246.244.100 by 212.67.202.212; Tue, 04 May 2004 
18:33:19 -0100
Message-ID: <FZEIIAXTBMOCGWYHFNCUJ at ameritech.net>
From: "Dorothea Funk" <EZTGJUVPHMG at arcor-ip.net>
Reply-To: "Dorothea Funk" <EZTGJUVPHMG at arcor-ip.net>
To: kelly at challoner.com, hayes at challoner.com
Subject: Ra.tes as low as 2.3%
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 00:41:19 +0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
	boundary="--93445358022617436327"
X-Priority: 3
X-CS-IP: 107.164.94.84
X-Spambayes-Exception: Traceback (most recent call last):
 .  File "sb_server.pyc", line 474, in onRetr
 .  File "spambayes\message.pyc", line 262, in asTokens
 .  File "spambayes\message.pyc", line 277, in as_string
 .  File "email\Message.pyc", line 130, in as_string
 .  File "email\Generator.pyc", line 102, in flatten
 .  File "email\Generator.pyc", line 130, in _write
 .  File "email\Generator.pyc", line 156, in _dispatch
 .  File "email\Generator.pyc", line 199, in _handle_text
 .TypeError: string payload expected: <type 'list'>
X-PMFLAGS: 34079360 0 1 P79M43Y5.CNM                        

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Content-Type: text/html;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit

<html><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-
8859-1">A few moments of your time could sa.ve you thousands of 
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...Nick.

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