got further, but still broken.. grump.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds", line 216, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds", line 200, in main text, poplang) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 203, in __init__ self['Subject'] = Header(subject, charset, header_name='Subject') File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 164, in __init__ self.append(s, charset) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 230, in append ustr = unicode(s, incodec) LookupError: unknown encoding

off to do more debugging...