Spam message with invalid date wedges postoffice

reported from Nat:

I've sent several emails into different KARL communities over the past
hour and nothing has posted and no email alerts have been sent. It's
possible that there's just a delay in the system, but I just wanted to
make sure that email is not down.

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confirmed e-mail in not working.

This was caused by a spam message containing and invalid date header. I have removed the offending message, unclogging the mailin log jam. I have downgraded the importance of this ticket but left it open, so that I can come back and add fault tolerance for this case so similar spam messages won't have this impact in the future. This work is not critical and can be managed like a normal bug fix.

Thanks for looking at this one last night, Chris.

--Paul

On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Chris Rossi wrote:

> This was caused by a spam message containing and invalid date header. I
> have removed the offending message, unclogging the mailin log jam. I
> have downgraded the importance of this ticket but left it open, so that
> I can come back and add fault tolerance for this case so similar spam
> messages won't have this impact in the future. This work is not
> critical and can be managed like a normal bug fix.
>
>
> ** Changed in: karl3
> Status: In Progress => Confirmed
>
> ** Changed in: karl3
> Importance: Critical => Medium
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to KARL3.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/697033
>
> Title:
> error in postoffice log
>
> Status in KARL3:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> WARNING:repoze.postoffice:Queue removed from configuration still has messages: eurasia
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/postmaster/postoffice/bin/postoffice", line 21, in <module>
> repoze.postoffice.script.main()
> File "/home/postmaster/postoffice/src/repoze.postoffice/repoze/postoffice/script.py", line 73, in main
> return ConsoleScript()()
> File "/home/postmaster/postoffice/src/repoze.postoffice/repoze/postoffice/script.py", line 46, in __call__
> po.import_messages(self.log)
> File "/home/postmaster/postoffice/src/repoze.postoffice/repoze/postoffice/api.py", line 156, in import_messages
> self._import_message(message, log)
> File "/home/postmaster/postoffice/src/repoze.postoffice/repoze/postoffice/api.py", line 206, in _import_message
> (name, _log_message(message))
> File "/opt/python2.5//lib/python2.5/contextlib.py", line 33, in __exit__
> self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback)
> File "/home/postmaster/postoffice/src/repoze.postoffice/repoze/postoffice/api.py", line 398, in __call__
> yield folder
> File "/home/postmaster/postoffice/src/repoze.postoffice/repoze/postoffice/api.py", line 201, in _import_message
> self, queue, message, log
> File "/home/postmaster/postoffice/src/repoze.postoffice/repoze/postoffice/api.py", line 247, in _check_for_auto_response_and_loops
> now = datetime.datetime(*parsedate(now)[:6])
> ValueError: day is out of range for month
>
>

fixed