[Mailman-Users] Error in pipermail

[Mark Sapiro]

On 10/25/18 12:03 PM, David Gibbs wrote:
> I just upgraded from a pretty old version of MM to 2.1.29 and everything
> appears to be working OK.
> 
> I noticed the following in my error log though.
> 
> I only have a few lists that archive using the built in functionality.
> 
> Oct 24 07:57:40 2018 (18940) Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec
> can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 26: ordinal not in range(128)
> Oct 24 07:57:40 2018 (18940) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 119, in _oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 190, in _onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 77, in
> _dispose
>     mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 216, in
> ArchiveMail
>     h.processUnixMailbox(f)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 596, in
> processUnixMailbox
>     self.add_article(a)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 640, in
> add_article
>     author = fixAuthor(article.decoded['author'])
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 63, in
> fixAuthor
>     while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 26:
> ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?


There should be a 'SHUNTING: xxxx.pck' message immediately following the
above traceback. This points to an entry in Mailman' qfiles/shunt/
directory.

You can see the message by pointing Mailman's bin/show_qfiles at that
file. There is something bogus and/or non-ascii in that message's From:
header, possibly an RFC 2047 encoded word with the 'wrong' character set.

Please post the message or at least the headers of the message here, and
I will investigate further.

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