[Mailman-Developers] moderation trackback

[James O'Kane]

Please cc me, as I'm not subscribed.

I've seen this error asked about by several people, but I've only seen
'Works for me' replies. I think I have another datapoint which should
explain it.

I get dozens of spam message caught by moderation per week and I leave
them there and clear them all out every few weeks. I recently upgraded
from 2.0.x to 2.1.4, and that when I got this error. I like to keep the
spam messages around for possible training data.

I did the upgrade while there were still message waiting for moderation.
Those messages are in .txt format and the code section below assumes they
are pickles.

Two ways I can think of to fix this is during make install convert them to
pickles, or add more processing to Mailman/ListAdmin.py to deal with .txt
and .pck files.

I don't know python, but I can test anything someone comes up with.

thanks
-james


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
    main()
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 163, in main
    process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 694, in process_form
    forward, forwardaddr)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 184, in HandleRequest
    forward, addr)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 264, in __handlepost
    msg = cPickle.load(fp)
ValueError: could not convert string to float