> Could it be it only works from one of your accounts and not from another?

What do you exactly mean? I have 1 bot account only. This one exists for
years and mailing worked fine in the past

OK. Based on the error, I suspected it was a message from the wiki. Of course, you already noted in your first mail that the message is from the framework. Silly me.

(userlib.py)
195 if not self.site().isAllowed('sendemail'):
196 raise UserActionRefuse('You don\'t have permission to send mail')

isAllowed is called on the site object, in your case dewikipedia:

(wikipedia.py)
5031 self._load(sysop = sysop)
5032 index = self._userIndex(sysop)
(...)
5037 return right in self._rights[index]

so it might be interesting to check what yoursite._rights contains. It might be the api returns incorrect values.

so this is what I would suggest: change your code from:

        def send_mailnotification(self, item):
                pywikibot.output(u'Sending mail "%s" to "%s" as notification!' % (error_mail[1], error_mail[0]))
                usr = userlib.User(pywikibot.getSite(), error_mail[0])

to something like:

        def send_mailnotification(self, item):
                pywikibot.output(u'Sending mail "%s" to "%s" as notification!' % (error_mail[1], error_mail[0])
)
                site = pywikibot.getSite()
                pywikibot.output(u'Allowed to send email: %r' % (site.isAllowed('sendemail'),)
                pywikibot.output(u'Permissions: %r' % (site._rights,)
                usr = userlib.User(pywikibot.getSite(), error_mail[0])

of course, ._rights is internal and should not generally be used like this. It's a helpful debugging tool, though.

You could also run the script through pdb to do post-mortem debugging. This would allow you to check out the problem more directly.


The recent edits to the framework that could be related are:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py?r1=9287&r2=9288& (jun 5)
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py?r1=9036&r2=9037&pathrev=9159& (mar 20, does not really seem related)

all other recent changes are, as far as I can see, purely cosmetic.


So I would suggest: 1) see what site._rights contains, and if this does not give any useful results, 2) try to see if the problem is introduced in r9288 (see if r9287 works).

Best,
Merlijn