[Mailman-Users] Messages don't getting distributed (2.1.6)

[Mark Sapiro]

Fernando Schapachnik wrote:

>        I have a 2.1.6 installation with many mailing lists. In one of them messages are not getting distributed. Looking through the archives, it seems that I might be hitting a malformed mime message (http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/mailman-users-0506/48.html). That post says that the problem is corrected in 2.1.6, so I'm not sure it is the same (I'm using python-2.3.4).


Your problem is not the one discussed in that post.


>        What I see is:
>--- LOG ---
>
>Jun 30 11:34:33 2005 (86236) Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf3 in position 163: ordinal not in range(128)
>Jun 30 11:34:33 2005 (86236) Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop
>    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile
>    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 73, in _dispose
>    self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 131, in process
>    Decorate.process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py", line 98, in process
>    uheader = unicode(header, lcset)
>UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf3 in position 163: ordinal not in range(128)
>
>Jun 30 11:34:33 2005 (86236) SHUNTING: 1120142006.933392+7403da4cb4ccf9c0434b639a8b249c8b942c90f2A
>
>--- LOG ---


It appears that this list has a header defined (msg_header) and that
header contains the 0xf3 character (small letter O with acute accent).

If you change or remove the header, you should be able to run
'bin/unshunt' to successfully re-process the messages.

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