[Mailman-Users] two errors causing shunting.

[Mitchell Marks]

At 01:57 PM 5/11/03, Sumeet wrote:

> >
>Wow. Well I get about 500 of these a day so i don't have the luxury of doing
>that...

Oof!  Well certainly you wouldn't do the by-hand fixups.

But if it correlates for you, as it seems to for me, that the first problem 
occurs just for lists with personalization on, you could try giving up the 
personalization and see if that makes a difference.

(Obviously it would be nicer to see this fixed).

Good luck,

    Mitch




>----- 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)
> >
> > --
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> >
> > 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!
> >