[Mailman-Users] digest delivery problem

[Dan Phillips]

I've Googled this and found several refences to the error message but 
none of them seem to be caused by this situation. One of my lists has 
had trouble sending the digest the last few days. It sends it to all 
but 31 subscribers, then leaves this in the error log:

Jun 09 12:00:02 2003 (460) Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop
     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile
     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 72, in 
_dispose
     self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata)
   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 146, in 
process
     deliveryfunc(mlist, msg, msgdata, envsender, refused, conn)
   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 332, in 
verpdeliver
     bulkdeliver(mlist, msgcopy, msgdata, envsender, failures, conn)
   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 345, in 
bulkdeliver
     msgtext = msg.as_string()
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 109, in 
as_string
     g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in 
flatten
     self._write(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in 
_write
     self._dispatch(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in 
_dispatch
     meth(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 230, in 
_handle_multipart
     g.flatten(part, unixfrom=False)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in 
flatten
     self._write(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in 
_write
     self._dispatch(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in 
_dispatch
     meth(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 230, in 
_handle_multipart
     g.flatten(part, unixfrom=False)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in 
flatten
     self._write(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in 
_write
     self._dispatch(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in 
_dispatch
     meth(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 297, in 
_handle_message
     g.flatten(msg.get_payload(0), unixfrom=False)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in 
flatten
     self._write(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in 
_write
     self._dispatch(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in 
_dispatch
     meth(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 199, in 
_handle_text
     raise TypeError, 'string payload expected: %s' % type(payload)
TypeError: string payload expected: <type 'list'>

Jun 09 12:00:02 2003 (460) SHUNTING: 
1055178001.113483+4cf795ff1bac2bb920026ee3d9b2d9eec506dea8
=============

The other 330 members get their digest fine. I copied the digest.mbox 
to a test list and sent it with cron/senddigests and it worked fine.

The file in qfiles/shunt is:

=============
bin/dumpdb 1055178001.113483+6ef95bc566ff9e38083c23c3a2cb515f842bfb73.db
{   'isdigest': 1,
     'lang': 'en',
     'listname': 'horn',
     'original_sender': 'horn-request at xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx',
     'personalize': 1,
     'pipeline': [],
     'received_time': 1055178001.113483,
     'recips': [   'claude.benson at xxxxxx.xxx',
                   'blackbort at xxxxx.xx',
    -=--snip--=- list of subscribers
                   'william.oliver at xxxxx.xx.xxx'],
     'undelivered': [   ['claude.benson at xxxxx.xxx'],
                        ['blackbort at xxxxx.xx'],
-=--snip--=- same list as before
                        ['william.oliver at xxxxx.xx.xxx']],
     'verp': 1,
     'version': 3,
     'whichq': '/users/mailman/qfiles/out'}
=========

incidentally, trying to run dumpdb on the .pck file produces another 
error message:
=======

[music:~/qfiles/shunt] mailman% dumpdb -p 
1055178001.113483+6ef95bc566ff9e38083c23c3a2cb515f842bfb73.pck
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/Users/mailman/bin/dumpdb", line 134, in ?
     msg = main()
   File "/Users/mailman/bin/dumpdb", line 128, in main
     pp.pprint(m)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/pprint.py", line 110, in pprint
     self.__stream.write(self.pformat(object) + "\n")
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/pprint.py", line 114, in pformat
     self.__format(object, sio, 0, 0, {}, 0)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/pprint.py", line 136, in __format
     rep = self.__repr(object, context, level - 1)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/pprint.py", line 200, in __repr
     self.__depth, level)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/pprint.py", line 287, in _safe_repr
     rep = `object`
   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 50, in __repr__
     return self.__str__()
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 99, in __str__
     return self.as_string(unixfrom=True)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 109, in 
as_string
     g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in 
flatten
     self._write(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in 
_write
     self._dispatch(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in 
_dispatch
     meth(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 230, in 
_handle_multipart
     g.flatten(part, unixfrom=False)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in 
flatten
     self._write(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in 
_write
     self._dispatch(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in 
_dispatch
     meth(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 230, in 
_handle_multipart
     g.flatten(part, unixfrom=False)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in 
flatten
     self._write(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in 
_write
     self._dispatch(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in 
_dispatch
     meth(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 297, in 
_handle_message
     g.flatten(msg.get_payload(0), unixfrom=False)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in 
flatten
     self._write(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in 
_write
     self._dispatch(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in 
_dispatch
     meth(msg)
   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 199, in 
_handle_text
     raise TypeError, 'string payload expected: %s' % type(payload)
TypeError: string payload expected: <type 'list'>
==============

running bin/unshunt just duplicates the above errors. I emptied 
qfiles/shunt before today's digest without effect.

Any ideas of where to look next?