Thanks for both replies,

I've just checked and I'm running python-ipaddr 2.1.9, with no updates
available.  I can live with the problem for now, I think this is the
only time I've seen that error (though that doesn't mean it hasn't
happened before).

Thanks again for your help

On 04/02/2016 9:34 pm, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Thursday, February 04, 2016 04:19:54 PM Bill Cole wrote:
>> On 4 Feb 2016, at 15:52, Danny Horne wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am getting the following error on just one email address from
>>> policyd-spf, called from Postfix.  No other email address has caused
>>> me
>>> problems (as far as I'm aware) and I had to completely disable
>>> policyd-spf in Postfix to allow the email through.  Can anyone
>>> decipher
>>> what the problem was?
>> Only enough to be sure that the problem happened inside policyd-spf and
>> that you're using the Python implementation, not the Perl one, since
>> that log mess is a Python error trackback.
>>
>> These lines tell the immediate error:
>>
>> Feb  4 14:32:06 gallium policyd-spf[8810]:  File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spf.py", line 1206, in dns_a
>> Feb  4 14:32:06 gallium policyd-spf[8810]:    return
>> [ipaddress.Bytes(ip) for ip in r]
>> Feb  4 14:32:06 gallium policyd-spf[8810]: AttributeError: 'module'
>> object has no attribute 'Bytes'
>>
>> That would *probably* be meaningful to the developers of policyd-spf and
>> perhaps to any good Python developer. To me it says "spf.py has a bug"
>> but my guess is far from expert.
>>
>> Looks possible that this is your answer:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/pypolicyd-spf/+bug/1229862/comments/3
> I believe that's correct.  I just confirmed that ipaddr.Bytes (which gets 
> used 
> as ipaddress.Bytes in this policy server for python3 compatibility) was added 
> in ipaddr-py 2.1.10, so running with an older version will cause that error.
>
> Scott K


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