[Mailman-Users] Odd little Error message
Greg Ward
gward at mems-exchange.org
Fri Nov 16 21:16:38 CET 2001
On 16 November 2001, Jeffrey M. Kenton said:
> I just received this message. Can someone help me to know what I
> should do with it?
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
[...]
> File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/DSN.py", line 46, in process
> if string.lower(msg.gettype()) <> 'multipart/report' or \
> TypeError: read-only character buffer, None
>
> Without much knowledge of the guts of Python, I would say that the
> problem is with disposing a rejected message, but I want to get some
> ideas from you all first.
I'm pretty sure that this very bug is one of the reasons Mailman 2.0.7
was released: it crashed when interpreting a certain type of bounce
message. Your guess was spot-on.
> Mailman 2.0.6, Python 1.5, etc.
^
Bingo -- congratulations, you get to upgrade!
Greg
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