Hi,

we experienced some problems with one of our major mailing lists which had the Digest turned on.

I finally found out that one of our users had misconfigured his MUA and send messages with Content-Type: text/plain; charset*=utf-8342200235''utf-8%E2%80%9D where Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 would be correct.

This caused Mailman 2.1.14 to

a) throw an exception:

Apr 30 13:39:51 2004 (13945) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 110, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 160, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 91, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 132, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 306, in send_i18n_digests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 182, in process charset = part.get_content_charset(lcset) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 800, in get_content_charset charset = unicode(charset[2], pcharset).encode('us-ascii') LookupError: unknown encoding

b) store the message in the digest.mbox, but shunt the message (so it was not delivered).

I tried the latest patches to Scrubber but that didn't help.

To my opinion, this is a very critial error since a single user can shut down the whole mailing list effectively. My only option as an emergency action was to switch off the Digest option and have a look into the very large digest.mbox :(

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