UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb7 in position 3689: invalid start byte

[Scott Hollenbeck]

From spamd.log:

Wed Nov 13 07:02:40 2019 [4966] info: pyzor: [10238] error: TERMINATED, signal 15 (000f)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: pyzor 1:1.0.0-3
Uname: Linux 5.1.17-x86_64-linode128 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 13 08:09:00 2019
Dependencies:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-28 (2754 days ago)
InstallationMedia:

PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 PATH=(custom, user)
SourcePackage: pyzor
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-09-28 (45 days ago)

[Scott Hollenbeck (g-sah)]

Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/pyzor", line 408, in <module>
     main()
   File "/usr/bin/pyzor", line 152, in main
     if not dispatch(client, servers, config):
   File "/usr/bin/pyzor", line 237, in check
     for digested in get_input_handler(style):
   File "/usr/bin/pyzor", line 174, in _get_input_msg
     msg = email.message_from_file(sys.stdin)
   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/__init__.py", line 54, in message_from_file
     return Parser(*args, **kws).parse(fp)
   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/parser.py", line 54, in parse
     data = fp.read(8192)
   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
     (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
 UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb7 in position 3689: invalid start byte
UserGroups:

[Scott Hollenbeck (g-sah)]

I've attached a patch based on code found here:

https://github.com/SpamExperts/pyzor

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "pyzor.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Matthijs Kooijman (matthijskooijman)]

This bug is reported and fixed upstream at https://github.com/SpamExperts/pyzor/issues/74

Looks like the attached patch is essentially the upstream fix.