[Mailman-Users] digests/Python/2.1.12 upgrade

[Christopher Adams]

Mark,

Running crontab -u mailman -i just reads out crontab.in.

The edit to charset.py worked and the digests have been generated.
Thank you for your commitment to help. It really makes a big
difference to us adminstrators. I wonder why this particular
installation presented a unique problem.

Thanks again,

Christopher Adams

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Mark Sapiro<mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> Christopher Adams wrote:
>>
>>>From crontab.in :
>
>
> What about from
>
> crontab -u mailman -l
>
> although it's popbably the same.
>
>
>>#
>># Noon, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshhold delivery.
>>0 12 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests
>>#
>>
>>This invokes version 2.5.
>>
>>>From senddigests:
>>
>>#! /usr/local/bin/python
>>
>>This invokes version 2.5
>
>
> Take a look at /usr/local/lib/python2.5/email/charset.py. At around
> line 196, you should see
>
>    def __init__(self, input_charset=DEFAULT_CHARSET):
>
> followed by 4 comment lines and
>
>        try:
>            if isinstance(input_charset, unicode):
>                input_charset.encode('ascii')
>            else:
>                input_charset = unicode(input_charset, 'ascii')
>        except UnicodeError:
>            raise errors.CharsetError(input_charset)
>        input_charset = input_charset.lower()
>
> This may be a problem, although others who've had this problem with a
> different email package have switched to this one and it solved the
> problem. Try changing
>
>            else:
>                input_charset = unicode(input_charset, 'ascii')
>
> to
>
>            else:
>                unicode(input_charset, 'ascii')
>
> and then restart Mailman.
>
> If that fixes the problem for you, I don't know why others don't have
> this problem with email 4.0.1, but at least you will be OK.
>
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>



-- 
Christopher Adams
adamsca at gmail.com