[Mailman-Users] Uncaught runner exception: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range

[Jon Carnes]

I'm fairly certain that there is a patch that handles this problem, but
you might want to simply update to the latest version of Mailman.

I believe that problem is caused by a character that is out of range for
the expected values. The character is probably one used by a different
language.  Your particular problem occurs when trying to archive the
message.

You could simply remove the message from queue, or edit it to remove any
ascii characters that are out-of-range.

Best of Luck - Jon Carnes

BTW: you can search the archives for this list to find the patch and
other relevant information about this problem

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 16:18, michael dunston wrote:
> For the second time in a few weeks, one of my lists has stopped
> delivering mail.  (Mailman 2.1.1 w/ sendmail) Can anyone possibly
> provide some ideas on what the error below might mean and how I might
> solve it?  Last time I ended up deleting and recreating the list as the
> solution.  Could this possibly be the result of a malformed message?  If
> so, is there a way to remove it without deleting everything?  Thanks in
> advance for any suggestions..
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Oct 07 18:44:48 2003 (485) Uncaught runner exception: 
>     ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> Oct 07 18:44:48 2003 (485) 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 _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, 
>     in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 82, in 
>     process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 123, in 
>     send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 303, in 
>     send_i18n_digests print >> plainmsg, msg.get_payload(decode=1)
>   UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> Oct 07 18:44:48 2003 (485) SHUNTING: 
>     1065566687.193175+42dca3e6bc6e314e2282610157cc69be07003f6c
> 
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