[Mailman-Users] Help! Digest went nuts!

Chuq Von Rospach chuqui at plaidworks.com
Tue Jun 5 07:35:47 CEST 2001


On Monday, June 4, 2001, at 10:21 PM, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>
>>>>>> "S" == Steph  <hergrace at pmeb.org> writes:
>
>     S> Here are some facts: * The digest came out incomplete -- it
>     S> broke off in the middle of one of the messages.
>
> Take a look at Mailman's error log file, $prefix/logs/error to see if
> you're getting any Python tracebacks.

if the log shows nothing, I've seen this before. turns out a user had an 
embedded NUL character (ascii 0), and it caused the file I/O routines to 
see a premature EOF. Mailman needs to protect itself from this by 
stripping weird ascii characters as the messages enter the system...


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