policyd-spf crashes on UnicodeEncodeError

[claus]

I got this in my error logs:
Jun 25 22:49:13 mail policyd-spf[7946]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jun 25 22:49:13 mail policyd-spf[7946]: File "/usr/bin/policyd-spf", line 708, in <module>
Jun 25 22:49:13 mail policyd-spf[7946]: sys.stdout.write('action=550 %s\n\n' % checkerReason)
Jun 25 22:49:13 mail policyd-spf[7946]: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\ufeff' in position 119: ordinal not in range(128)
Jun 25 22:49:13 mail postfix/spawn[7945]: warning: command /usr/bin/policyd-spf exit status 1
Jun 25 22:49:13 mail postfix/smtpd[7942]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/policy-spf while reading input attribute name
Jun 25 22:49:14 mail policyd-spf[7948]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jun 25 22:49:14 mail policyd-spf[7948]: File "/usr/bin/policyd-spf", line 708, in <module>
Jun 25 22:49:14 mail policyd-spf[7948]: sys.stdout.write('action=550 %s\n\n' % checkerReason)
Jun 25 22:49:14 mail policyd-spf[7948]: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\ufeff' in position 119: ordinal not in range(128)
Jun 25 22:49:14 mail postfix/spawn[7945]: warning: command /usr/bin/policyd-spf exit status 1
Jun 25 22:49:14 mail postfix/smtpd[7942]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/policy-spf while reading input attribute name
Jun 25 22:49:14 mail postfix/smtpd[7942]: warning: problem talking to server private/policy-spf: Success

I am running Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
postfix-policyd-spf-python: Installed: 1.3.2-1

I found this Debian bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=816850;msg=5 which suggests that the bug is fixed in version pypolicyd-spf/2.0.0-1 .

Is there a way to get this fixed in Xenial?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

That's correct. It was fixed in 2.0.0, but I'm not sure the fix would directly apply to 1.3.2. I've targeted the bug appropriately for 16.04. Perhaps someone involved in Ubuntu development will take a look.