[Email-SIG] Maybe a bug, maybe not

Sat May 1 08:05:50 EDT 2004

found a very common form of spam that triggers an exception.  don't know 
if you considered a bug or not.  I've enclosed a sample message and a 
very simple program to trigger the bug.  From my limited understanding, 
the payload type is correct but somehow it is dispatched to the wrong 
handler.  When I was writing the test program, I also copied some of the 
generator code so I could see what method was being requested etc.  then 
I ran into limits of my knowledge and time.

let me know if this should be a bug report.  In the meantime, I need to 
go figure out where to add exception traps and how to handle them

[root at harvee emailbug]# python test_bug.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "test_bug.py", line 12, in ?
     print message.as_string()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/email/Message.py", line 113, 
in as_string
     g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/email/Generator.py", line 103, 
in flatten
     self._write(msg)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/email/Generator.py", line 131, 
in _write
     self._dispatch(msg)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/email/Generator.py", line 157, 
in _dispatch
     meth(msg)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/email/Generator.py", line 201, 
in _handle_text
     raise TypeError, 'string payload expected: %s' % (type(payload))
TypeError: string payload expected: <type 'list'>
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import sys

sys.path.insert(1,"/usr/local/camram/modules/")
sys.path.insert(1,"/usr/local/camram/web-ui/cgi-exec/")
#sys.path.insert(1,"../modules/")

UNDERSCORE = "_"

import email
handle_2 = file("broken_format.msg")
message = email.message_from_file(handle_2)
print message.as_string()

main = message.get_content_maintype()
sub = message.get_content_subtype()
specific = UNDERSCORE.join((main, sub)).replace('-', '_')
meth = getattr(message, '_handle_' + specific, None)
print  meth

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Received: from red.harvee.home (red [192.168.25.1] (may be forged))
	by harvee.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3Q59FCe002252
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	by red.harvee.home (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i3Q59Ep29530
	for <esj at inguide.com>; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:09:14 -0400
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