[Mailman-Users] Discarding held message generates an error.

[Arthur Lee]

Thanks Christopher,  I had submitted a bug-report.  Hope it will be picked
up soon.

Regards,
Arthur

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of
> Christopher Lindsey
> Sent: Monday, 05 April, 1999 12:27 PM
> To: Arthur Lee
> Cc: bwarsaw at cnri.reston.va.us; mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Discarding held message
> generates an error.
>
>
> > I need to correct myself here, actually only one particular
> message is
> > giving me this problem.  I am attaching the header of this
> particular
> > message.
>
> Well, I've tracked down the problem.  Now it's up to someone who
> can do Python programming to find the fix.  :)
>
> The problem is the '%' sign in the Subject; mailman appears to choke
> on it.  Without knowing anything about Python, I would guess that
> % is a specialized character and needs to be escaped or some such.
>
> > Subject:      Lotus Organizer 5.0  SAVE OVER 50%!
>
> Anyhow, I'm now awaiting a fix to purge the half dozen new
> messages out of my test list (yes, I'm too lazy to erase and
> recreate it.  :)
>
> Chris
>
> P.S.  Errors included below...
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/home/staff/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main
>     main()
>   File "/home/staff/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 124, in main
>     HandleRequests(doc)
>   File "/home/staff/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line
> 214, in HandleRequests
>     list.HandleRequest(request, v)
>   File "/home/staff/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 122,
> in HandleRequest
>     self.HandlePostRequest(request_data[2:], value, comment)
>   File "/home/staff/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 165,
> in HandlePostRequest
>     self.LogMsg("vette", note)
>   File "/home/staff/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 793, in LogMsg
>     logf.write(msg % args + '\n')
> TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
>
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