[Mailman-Users] two errors causing shunting.

[Sumeet]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitchell Marks" <mitchell at cuip.net>
To: "Sumeet" <sumeetp at hotmail.com>
Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] two errors causing shunting.


> (Just another data point ...)
>
> I also rather frequently see the first of these two errors, associated
with
> a message going into shunt.
>
> The occasions when it happens are when BOTH of the following conditions
hold:
>
>          1.  The list has Personalization set to Yes (and there is a
> percent-substitution for fullname and address in the footer -- though i
> haven't experimented with this as a separate variable)
>
>          2.  The message contains an extended-Ascii character with high
bit
> on.  E.g., begin/end quotes, copyright, \226 for a dash.
>
> These don't simply unshunt with bin/shunt, but I can get them to dislodge
> with a little preparation, either:
>
>          A. I edit the .pck, substituting another character where I see
the
> high-bit one.  (Take care to keep the same number of characters or it will
> be tossed out as a bad pickle.)
>          B. Go to the web admin interface for the list, turn off
> personalization (and save the substitution strings); run bin/unshunt; turn
> personalization back on (and restore the substitution strings).
>
> A bit of a pain either way.  Today I'm hoping to transfer some lists to a
> server where we have MM 2.1.3 and am hoping that as a side benefit this
> problem might go away.  (I've been seeing it in 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2).
>
> regards,
>
>   Mitch Marks
>
> At 03:17 AM 5/11/03, Sumeet wrote:
> >I have two errors that cause most of my shunting with a stock mailman
> >2.1.2 and Python 2.2.2 both compiled on Red Hat 9 w/ stock 2.4.20-8
> >kernel. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. They are:
> >
> >May 10 20:57:24 2003 (4146) SHUNTING:
> >1052625116.7849211+19dccb687bd137300e85be6
> >4c228d460e16287ab
> >May 10 21:03:36 2003 (4146) Uncaught runner exception: ASCII encoding
> >error: ord
> >inal not in range(128)
> >May 10 21:03:36 2003 (4146) Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in
_oneloop
> >     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
> >   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in
_onefile
> >     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
> >   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130,
in
> > _dispo
> >se
> >     more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
> >   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153,
in
> > _dopip
> >eline
> >     sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
> >   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 89, in
process
> >     send_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
> >   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 130, in
> > send_dige
> >sts
> >     send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
> >   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 303, in
> > send_i18n
> >_digests
> >     msg = scrubber(mlist, msg)
> >   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 305, in
> > process
> >     t = unicode(t, 'ascii', 'replace').encode('ascii')
> >UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> --
> Mitchell Marks
> CUIP Tech Coordinator    http://cuip.uchicago.edu
> CUIP: Chicago Public Schools / Univ. of Chicago Internet Project
> 5640 S Ellis Ave  AAC-045, Univ of Chgo, Chgo IL 60637
>
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>          Alternate UofC addresses (use especially to report problems with
> cuip.uchicago.edu): mitchell at cs.uchicago.edu and mmar at midway.uchicago.edu
>          Off-campus (ISP) address: mmarks at pobox.com
>
> Man in cafe (shouting on phone): Bouriana! Yes, that's me.  Yes, I'm
> holding ...  Bouriana.  Bouriana!  ... All right:  B as in Bouriana, O as
> in Ouriana, U as in Uriana, R as in Riana, I as in Iana, A as in Ana, N as
> in Na, A as in --- Albert!  Albert Bouriana!
>
>
Wow. Well I get about 500 of these a day so i don't have the luxury of doing
that...