[Mailman-Users] Mailman/ MHonarc Integration Problem

[Richard Barrett]

On 17 Feb 2004, at 01:29, Michel R Vaillancourt wrote:

>
> Good evening, all...  I am trying to set MHonarc up to work with 
> MailMan.  I am
> following the instructions found at:
> http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/mhonarc-users/2001-10/msg00021.html
>
> I get the following error message when a message goes through the list:
>
> ==> /usr/local/mailman/logs/error <==
> Feb 16 20:05:12 2004 (288) Uncaught runner exception: unsupported 
> format character
> '>' (0x3e) at index 110
> Feb 16 20:05:12 2004 (288) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 110, in 
> _oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 160, in 
> _onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in 
> _dispose
>     mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 202, in 
> ArchiveMail
>     self.ExternalArchive(mm_cfg.PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER, txt)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 172, in 
> ExternalArchive
>     cmd = ar % d
> ValueError: unsupported format character '>' (0x3e) at index 110
> ==> /usr/local/mailman/logs/error <==
>
>   Any suggestions as to where to start looking?

Yes, at the assignments in mm_cfg.py. The instructions you are working 
to say, amongst other things, to make the following assignments 
something like:

PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/usr/bin/mhonarc -add 
-outdir/var/mhonarc/archives/%(listname)s >> 
/tmp/out_external_archiver'
PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/usr/bin/mhonarc -add 
-outdir/var/mhonarc/archives/%(listname)s >> 
/tmp/out_external_archiver'

It is no coincidence that the invalid format character complained of, 
the ">" (greater than) character, appears in that recipe after a 
formatting sequence "%(listname)s >"

Is there any chance that you mistyped that part of the assigned value 
as "%(listname) >>" ? For instance, if you had typed "%(listname) >>" 
this would lead to the error you are getting.

btw: there is a patch for a more complete integration of 
Mailman/pipermail/MHonarc available at 
http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mailman/patches/mhonarc/ which may be of 
interest to you.

>  I reviewed the changes I made to my mm_cfg file and everything 
> matches up with no
> obvious syntax errors.  However, I can't quite figure out what the 
> error is being
> caused.  Thanks in advance for any and all help.
>
> --Michel
>
> "Poetry is what happens when you are too choked up, too much in love, 
> or too pissed
> off to write coherent prose"
>
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