Hi all,

I've searched high and low for some answers to this problem and I've seen a lot about it, but no specific fixes for mailman. I hope someone here can help me, as the problem has become critical.

I'm running mailman-2.1.4 which is the version included with Mandrake 10, which is the distro I'm running. I also have these python packages installed:

libpython2.3-2.3.3 python-2.3.3 python-base-2.3.3 python-numeric-23.1

My problem is this: I received some spam which apparently contains some Unicode characters to a moderated mailing list. At first, I could go to the "pending moderator requests" page and deal with other pending messages, but any time I tried discarding this particular message, mailman would display an error page with the message:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 107: ordinal not in range(128)

After doing some research and not finding a possible fix for this, I decided to try going in to mailman's queue and deleting the message manually. The way mandrake compiled/packaged it, it looked to me the queue file was in /var/lib/mailman/data/. It was named heldmsg-<mylist>-####.pck. I deleted it and restarted the mailman service.

Apparently that was Not A Good Thing (TM), because now going to the pending moderator requests page shows that message, and I can no longer deal with my incoming messages.

Please, can anyone help?

Thank you,

Scott

Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks!

Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 228, in main num += show_helds_overview(mlist, form) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 473, in show_helds_overview mlist.HandleRequest(id, mm_cfg.DISCARD) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 184, in HandleRequest forward, addr) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 373, in __handlepost syslog('vette', note) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", line 40, in write self.write_ex(kind, msg, args, kws) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", line 58, in write_ex logf.write(msg + '\n') File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 73, in write Logger.write(self, "%s %s" % (prefix, msg)) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 91, in write f.write(msg) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 107: ordinal not in range(128)