[Mailman-Developers] a bug in current cvs

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "F" == Fil  <fil@rezo.net> writes:

    F> One of my lists is totally dead, and how much I try to revive
    F> it it does not come up alive (others are well).  All mails sent
    F> to the list end up in the shunt/ directory. Web interface fails
    F> when sending mail (like 'subscribe' requests)...

    F> TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, None found

The only way I can see this happening is if your messages have no
From: header.  That's anti-RFC and pretty broken, but here's a patch
that should at least avoid the tracebacks in that situation.  Give it
a try.

-Barry

Index: ToDigest.py
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mailman/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py,v
retrieving revision 2.15
diff -u -u -r2.15 ToDigest.py
--- ToDigest.py	19 Dec 2001 07:03:22 -0000	2.15
+++ ToDigest.py	15 Mar 2002 15:44:22 -0000
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
                       subject, re.IGNORECASE)
         if mo:
             subject = subject[:mo.start(2)] + subject[mo.end(2):]
-        addresses = getaddresses([msg['From']])
+        addresses = getaddresses([msg.get('From', '')])
         username = ''
         # Take only the first author we find
         if type(addresses) is ListType and len(addresses) > 0: