[erlang-questions] Communicating with SpamAssassin from Erlang

Atilla Erdődi atilla.erdodi@REDACTED
Tue Mar 8 10:39:13 CET 2011


Thanks to everybody for the advices. Finally, I've implemented a
subset of the spamd protocolon my own, it literally took several lines
of code.

Atilla

2011/3/8 Matt Stancliff <sysop@REDACTED>:
>
> On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:27 AM, Atilla Erdődi wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to use SpamAssassin to check the spam score of a mail from
>> Erlang using a port.  I've experimented with several options for
>> open_port, different message formats, but haven't managed to get any
>> reply from spamc, so it times out. Apparently it doesn't notice the
>> end of the transmission. Hopefully the solution is something trivial,
>> I've missed so far.
>
>  You've run into a very common problem of erlang ports being unable to close
> stdin.
>
>> The simplified code is below:
>
>  I fixed it a few weeks ago for good:
> https://github.com/mattsta/erlang-stdinout-pool
>
>  erlang-stdinout-pool includes a port with the ability to close stdin on
> your external process and send stdout back to erlang.
>
>
> -Matt, the self proclaimed master of stdin/stdout.
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