[Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-Users] ValueError: unpack list of wrong size

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Jun 10 04:30:00 CEST 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 20:02, Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
> > 
> > I came across your message to the mailman users list from a year ago. I 
> > just received a "ValueError: unpack list of wrong size" error in 
> > Mailman, and I wanted to give you the offending message in case you are 
> > still the maintainer of Scrubber.py.
> > 
> > The offending message is attached.
> > 
> 
> Looks like the offending line was this:
> Content-Disposition: inline;
>          filename*0="Today's Headlines- C.I.A. Is Reviewing Its Security 
> Policy
>          for R"; filename*1="ecruiting Translators.jpg"
> 
> Note that RFC2231 encoding specifies "'" as a special character for 
> delimiting charset'lang'content.  The sender's MUA should have encoded 
> "'" as "%27".
> 
> See: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2231.html
> 
> Of course, Mailman and Python email package should be robust for such 
> violation.  I need more time to fix this.

Is there a bug open on Python's SF bug tracker about this?  If not,
please open one and assign it to me.  That doesn't mean you can't help
fix it, but I'm tracking the email package and will be responsible for
getting it into the various appropriate Python branches.

-Barry

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