[Bencsath Boldizsar]

The problem, if i use special characters in the subject, some of the words appear two times in the subject ...

Actually, it wasn't related to use of special characters, but to the fact that the resulting subject header spanned multiple line. This (just-checked-in) patch should fix this problem:

Index: Mailman/Message.py

RCS file: /export/public/cvsroot/mailman/Mailman/Message.py,v retrieving revision 1.20 retrieving revision 1.21 diff -u -r1.20 -r1.21 --- Message.py 1999/03/09 02:42:09 1.20 +++ Message.py 1999/05/22 06:05:48 1.21 @@ -22,13 +22,10 @@ import string import time

-# get our hacked copy of Python 1.5.2's rfc822.py -import rfc822 -try:

• rfc822.Message.getallrecipients

-except AttributeError:

• # the standard module doesn't have our enhancement
• from Mailman.pythonlib import rfc822

+# Python 1.5's version of rfc822.py is buggy and lacks features we +# depend on -- so we always use the up-to-date version distributed +# with Mailman. +from Mailman.pythonlib import rfc822

# Utility functions 2 of these classes use: @@ -153,47 +150,11 @@ return real_name

 def SetHeader(self, name, value, crush_duplicates=1):

•   # Well, we crush dups in the dict no matter what...
  

•    # XXX Note that as of Python 1.5.2, rfc822 message objects support
  

•    #     a .__setattr__() that does what we want, so eventually we'll
  

•    #     want to switch to that instead of mucking w/the internal rep.
  

•    newheader = not self.dict.has_key(string.lower(name))
  

•   self.dict[string.lower(name)] = value
  

•   if value[-1] <> '\n':
  

•       value = value + '\n'
  

•   if not crush_duplicates or newheader:
  

•       self.headers.append('%s: %s' % (name, value))
  

•       return
  

•    if crush_duplicates:
  

•        self[name] = value
     else:
  

•        for i in range(len(self.headers)):
  

•            if (string.lower(self.headers[i][:len(name)+1]) == 
  

•                string.lower(name) + ':'):
  

•                self.headers[i] = '%s: %s' % (name, value)
  

• # XXX Eventually (1.5.1?) Python rfc822.Message() will have its own
• # __delitem__.
• def __delitem__(self, name):

•    """Delete all occurrences of a specific header, if it is present."""
  

•    name = string.lower(name)
  

•    if not self.dict.has_key(name):
  

•        return
  

•    del self.dict[name]
  

•    name = name + ':'
  

•    n = len(name)
  

•    list = []
  

•    hit = 0
  

•    for i in range(len(self.headers)):
  

•        line = self.headers[i]
  

•        if string.lower(line[:n]) == name:
  

•            hit = 1
  

•        elif line[:1] not in string.whitespace:
  

•            hit = 0
  

•        if hit:
  

•            list.append(i)
  

•    list.reverse()
  

•    for i in list:
  

•        del self.headers[i]
  

•        # Only bother with the dict
  

•        self.dict[string.lower(name)] = value
  
  

# This is a simplistic class. It could do multi-line headers etc... # But it doesn't because I don't need that for this app.

Thanks a lot for the bug report,

Harald