SpamFilter refuses to load

[sgrayban@…]

I installed the newest dnspython and still the spam filter refuses to load.

Trac[loader] WARNING: Cannot load plugin spamfilter.ip_blacklist because it requires "dnspython>=1.3.5"

I have 1.4.0 installed.

[sgrayban@…]

I had to edit the setup.py and remove that [DNS] require from...

spamfilter.ip_blacklist = tracspamfilter.filters.ip_blacklist

to get this to load.

Looking at the code I don't even see where its checking for the version of dnspython in the first place. So its always going to fail to load.

[mgood]

The requirements are checked by the setuptools package automatically. You need to install dnspython via setuptools so that the metadata is available:

easy_install dnspython

That command will automatically download and install it correctly.

However, the "[DNS]" part means it's an "extra" feature. So, the other parts of the spam filter should work correctly when "dnspython" is not available. Only the IP blacklisting component will be unavailable.

[cmlenz]

Yeah, the rest of the SpamFilter plugin (Akismet, Regexp, etc) should still work even if dnspython is not available (or not installed with the required metadata).

Matt, what part of this ticket requires action from us? I would've closed as “worksforme”, but maybe I'm missing something?

[anonymous]

Replying to cmlenz:

Matt, what part of this ticket requires action from us? I would've closed as “worksforme”, but maybe I'm missing something?

None. I just forgot to close it.