[Mailman-Users] mailman simply *stops* sending messages
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Sat May 21 08:20:46 CEST 2005
>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> writes:
Brad> At 4:08 PM -0700 2005-05-20, John W. Baxter wrote:
>> If the sending MUA didn't encode it, it's an MUA error (this is
>> NOT a new RFC)--dated in 1997.
Brad> Correct, but Mailman should be able to deal with this
Brad> issue and at least skip the message in question and continue
Brad> processing all other messages.
+1 on that---I see raw Japanese (though normally ISO-2022-JP, which is
a 7-bit code) in attachment headers all the time. I'm really
surprised Tokio hasn't run into this bug (and fixed it, like he always
seems to<wink>).
Brad> What concerns me here is that recently we've started
Brad> hearing a lot of people complaining about this problem or
Brad> that, which results in messages being shunted -- but also
Brad> causing that list to stop working.
Indeed.
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