[erlang-questions] Communicating with SpamAssassin from Erlang

[Matt Stancliff]

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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