[Mailman-Developers] UnicodeDecodeError

[Andrew D. Clark]

Hi,

I consistently get shunted messages with errors like so in logs/errors:


Jul 01 10:28:39 2005 (26124) Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec 
can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
Jul 01 10:28:39 2005 (26124) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in 
_oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in 
_onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, 
in _dispose
    mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 216, 
in ArchiveMail
    h.processUnixMailbox(f)
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 
573, in processUnixMailbox
    self.add_article(a)
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 
625, in add_article
    article.parentID = parentID = self.get_parent_info(arch, article)
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 
657, in get_parent_info
    article.subject)
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 
311, in getOldestArticle
    self.__openIndices(archive)
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 
251, in __openIndices
    t = DumbBTree(os.path.join(arcdir, archive + '-' + i))
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 
65, in __init__
    self.load()
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 
179, in load
    self.__sort(dirty=1)
  File "/home/services/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 
73, in __sort
    self.sorted.sort()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 0: 
ordinal not in range(128)

Jul 01 10:28:39 2005 (26124) SHUNTING: 
1119004634.531249+fd4e0ba403a784a3545f4d8e32c66015e33c5870

The message is in GB2312:

%./show_qfiles ../qfiles/shunt/1119004634*
====================> 
../qfiles/shunt/1119004634.531249+fd4e0ba403a784a3545f4d8e32c66015e33c5870.pck
Received: from [61.144.65.81] (helo=service.netease.com)
        by ucsb.edu with esmtp  id 1DjEDp-000Mp5-Se
        for webmaster at ucsb.edu; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 03:37:14 -0700
From: =?GB2312?B?0MLGt73pydw=?= <ivpinfo at service.netease.com>
To: webmaster at ucsb.edu
Content-Type: text/html;charset="GB2312"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
...

Any tips or is this a mailman bug?

--
Andrew Clark
Campus Network Programmer
Office of Information Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara
andrew.clark at ucsb.edu (805) 893-5311