[Mailman-Users] Attachments are unexpectedly re-created.

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Hi,

(10/03/04 1:58), Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Masaharu Kawada wrote:
>>
>> There is one thing that I wonder, is that if the charset.py is done with
>> that patch, what the current digest.mbox exsisted under lists/<listname>
>> are supposed to be? Do they need to be deleted or not? My point on
>> this is that once the patch is done, is there nothing else to do to fix this
>> problem?
> 
> 
> That is correct. Assuming the underlying issue is fixed by the patch,
> all you need to do is apply the patch to the Python email library
> charset.py module (probably at
> /usr/lib/pythonx.x/lib/email/charset.py) and restart Mailman. Then the
> next time the digest is triggered, it will be sent with all messages
> and no more errors.
> 
> If you apply the patch and restart Mailman and the errors continue,
> then they are caused by something else.

In addition, you should have a lot of shunted messages in qfiles/shunt.
 They are safely deleted.

> 
> Note that the patch:
> 
> --- Lib/email/charset.py	2009-09-22 08:59:56.000000000 +0900
> +++ Lib/email/charset.py.orig	2009-09-22 08:58:36.000000000 +0900
> @@ -264,8 +264,7 @@
>      def convert(self, s):
>          """Convert a string from the input_codec to the
> output_codec."""
>          if self.input_codec != self.output_codec:
> -            return unicode(s, self.input_codec, 'replace'
> -                     ).encode(self.output_codec, 'replace')
> +            return unicode(s,
> self.input_codec).encode(self.output_codec)
>          else:
>              return s
> 
> is reversed. The '+' is the original code and the '-' is the new code.
> 

Yes.  Thanks Mark.


-- 
Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi at is.kochi-u.ac.jp
http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/