[Mailman-Developers] Mails shunt: LookupError: unknown encoding: X-UNKNOWN

[Gregor Maier]

Hello, 

I have an "interesting" on some mailinglist. All mails to this list get shunted with the 
error message:  LookupError: unknown encoding: X-UNKNOWN
This only happens when digestable is set to true. The funny thing about this, that 
I cannot figure out when this error occurs. It is only reproduceable on some lists.

- Not all lists with the digestable=1 have this phenomen, in fact only a few have it
- The problem is indepented from the mailer I use. Other lists work fine with all tested mailers
- The listowner told me that he didn't change the digestable option when mails stopped 
	arriving at the list (he just changed the archive from public to private).
- The list worked fine for some month before it "stopped working" at the beginning of april
- Updating mailman to 2.1.4 and several restarts didn't help 
- There were no lockfiles that could have caused this problem
- Skimming the code in Scrubber.py und Message.py didn't help me.
- My current "hotfix" is to disable the digest option on the affected lists. But this cannot
	be the solution forever.... 

My setup is a gentoo-linux box with mailman-2.1.4 and python-2.3.3
I have absolutely no clue how this problem was introduced to my system an why it 
is just limited to some list. 

There is a (quite old) bugreport about this problem from another guy:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=803729&group_id=103&atid=100103
but there's now hint there were the problem lies. 

I hope you give a hint were to look for the source of this problem. Mainly I just want to
understand what's going on here. 

Here's the excerpt from my error log:
Apr 26 18:27:05 2004 (17449) Uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding: X-UNKNOWN
Apr 26 18:27:05 2004 (17449) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 110, in _oneloop
    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 160, in _onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose
    more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline
    sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 91, in process
    send_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 132, in send_digests
    send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 306, in send_i18n_digests
    msg = scrubber(mlist, msg)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 265, in process
    url = save_attachment(mlist, part, dir)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 361, in save_attachment
    fnext = os.path.splitext(msg.get_filename(''))[1]
  File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 714, in get_filename
    return unicode(newvalue[2], newvalue[0] or 'us-ascii')
LookupError: unknown encoding: X-UNKNOWN

Apr 26 18:27:05 2004 (17449) SHUNTING: 1082996756.746207+e85fdb8b141ccd2a8f0757824f62fbff58
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Gregor Maier
Fachschaft Mathe/Phys/Info
Computerreferat