[Mailman-Users] Uncaught runner exception

[Mark Sapiro]

On 3/1/19 9:00 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> 
> To try to diagnose this further, you could try:
> 
> === modified file 'Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py'
> --- Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py	2018-05-03 21:23:47 +0000
> +++ Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py	2019-03-02 04:51:23 +0000
> @@ -60,9 +60,12 @@
>      else:
>          # Mixed case; assume that small parts of the last name will be
>          # in lowercase, and check them against the list.
> -        while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or
> -                       L[i-1].lower() in smallNameParts):
> -            i = i - 1
> +        try:
> +            while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or
> +                           L[i-1].lower() in smallNameParts):
> +                i = i - 1
> +        except:
> +            syslog('error', 'Exception in fixAuthor: %s', author)
>      author = SPACE.join(L[-1:] + L[i:-1]) + ', ' + SPACE.join(L[:i])
>      return author
> 
> 
> and see what gets logged in Mailman's error log and what the archived
> message looks like
> 


Also, in your original post you posted


> Feb 28 12:29:02 2019 (3123) Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec
> can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 26: ordinal not in range(128)
> Feb 28 12:29:02 2019 (3123) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 119, in _oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 190, in _onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 77, in _dispose
>     mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 216, in
> ArchiveMail
>     h.processUnixMailbox(f)
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 596, in
> processUnixMailbox
>     self.add_article(a)
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 640, in
> add_article
>     author = fixAuthor(article.decoded['author'])
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 63, in
> fixAuthor
>     while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or [error message stops right
> here]

Following that in the log there should be two more lines, one describing
the UnicodeDecodeError exception and one referring to the message being
shunted and pointing to a qfiles/shunt/*.pck file. You can see the
contents of that file with either Mailman's bin/show_qfiles or
bin/dumpdb commands and the From: header in the message may give more info.

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