From mark at msapiro.net  Mon Mar 16 18:50:24 2009
From: mark at msapiro.net (Mark Sapiro)
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:50:24 -0700
Subject: [Mailman-Announce] Mailman 2.1.12 - Python 2.4.[456] incompatibility
Message-ID: <49BE9160.9020805@msapiro.net>

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There is an internal inconsistency in the 3.0.2 email package that
shipped with Python 2.4.4 through 2.4.6. This has to do with the
Charset.Charset() constructor setting input_charset to a unicode which
then causes TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported exceptions in
other parts of the email package. This problem does not seem to occur
with email 3.0.1 and Python 2.4.[123].

This (along with other stuff) is discussed in the bug report at
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/328353> and there is a patch
for email/Charset.py at
<http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23670138/Charset.py.patch>

At this point, the best advice seems to be use Python 2.5 or 2.6 with
Mailman 2.1.12.

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Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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