When sending nntp message fails, log the message to temporary file.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mail2news.py b/mail2news.py
index 0091cf4..ced7897 100644
--- a/mail2news.py
+++ b/mail2news.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Gets news email and sends it via SMTP.
 class mail2news is  hopefully conform to rfc850.
 
 """
-from io import StringIO
+import io
 from collections import OrderedDict
 import email
 import logging
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import os
 from re import findall
 from socket import gethostbyaddr, gethostname
 import sys
+import tempfile
 
 
 #logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
@@ -180,6 +181,14 @@ class mail2news(object):
         if self.verbose:
             server.set_debuglevel(2)
 
-        server.post(io.BytesIO(self.message.as_bytes()))
+        msg_bytes = self.message.as_bytes()
+        try:
+            server.post(io.BytesIO(msg_bytes))
+        except UnicodeEncodeError:
+            with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix="eml", prefix="failed_msg",
+                                             delete=False) as tmpf:
+                tmpf.write(msg_bytes)
+                logging.info(f"failed file name = {tmpf.name}")
+            logging.exception("Failed to convert message!")
 
         server.quit()