Here's the trace, and one of the email headers is Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
and certainly there was some non-utf8 in the mail body.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/local/allura/Allura/allura/command/smtp_server.py", line 57, in process_message peer=peer, mailfrom=mailfrom, rcpttos=rcpttos, data=data) File "/var/local/allura/Allura/allura/lib/decorators.py", line 62, in post return M.MonQTask.post(func, args, kwargs, delay=delay) File "/var/local/allura/Allura/allura/model/monq_model.py", line 173, in post session(obj).flush(obj) File "/var/local/env-allura/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Ming-0.4.2-py2.7.egg/ming/odm/base.py", line 29, in inner result = func(obj, *args, **kwargs) File "/var/local/env-allura/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Ming-0.4.2-py2.7.egg/ming/odm/odmsession.py", line 59, in flush self.insert_now(obj, st) File "/var/local/env-allura/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Ming-0.4.2-py2.7.egg/ming/odm/base.py", line 29, in inner result = func(obj, *args, **kwargs) File "/var/local/env-allura/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Ming-0.4.2-py2.7.egg/ming/odm/odmsession.py", line 67, in insert_now mapper(obj).insert(obj, st, self, **kwargs) File "/var/local/env-allura/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Ming-0.4.2-py2.7.egg/ming/odm/base.py", line 29, in inner result = func(obj, *args, **kwargs) File "/var/local/env-allura/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Ming-0.4.2-py2.7.egg/ming/odm/mapper.py", line 55, in insert session.impl.insert(doc, validate=False) File "/var/local/env-allura/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Ming-0.4.2-py2.7.egg/ming/session.py", line 22, in wrapper return func(self, doc, *args, **kwargs) File "/var/local/env-allura/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Ming-0.4.2-py2.7.egg/ming/session.py", line 160, in insert bson = self._impl(doc).insert(data, safe=kwargs.get('safe', True)) File "/var/local/env-allura/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pymongo-2.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pymongo/collection.py", line 359, in insert continue_on_error, self.__uuid_subtype), safe) InvalidStringData: ('strings in documents must be valid UTF-8', 'doc:
allura:tv/7096
To repro on master (tail allura.log to see error):
Apply fix, restart smtp_server, rerun swaks command.