[Mailman-Users] URGENT! HELP! unsupported format character is breaking one of my lists

[Jared Meeker]

Thanks.  Here's what I discovered.  My footer had the field "Unsubscribe
%(real_name)]" in it.  I removed the brackets and still got the error. 
What I found to be the real problem was I missed the last "s" on the
variable reference.  It now properly reads "Unsubscribe %(real_name)s".

Thanks for the clue.  I didn't think to go to the header/footer defs. page.
-- 
Jared Meeker
System Operator
Morinda, Inc.


---Reply to mail from Dan Mick about [Mailman-Users] URGENT! HELP!  unsupported format character is breaking one of my lists
> It looks a lot like there's an unsupported format character (']')
> in either msg_header or msg_footer.  The messages about it are
> amazingly clear, it seems to me.
> 
> Did you just change either the header or footer?
> 
> Did you do it in such a way so as to add something like "%]" to
> the message?
> 
> Can you examine your header and footer anyway and look for that?
> 
> The web page admin interface shows them in the "Regular-member (non-digest)
> Options".
> 
> 
>> This list has 2,979 users on it and there needs to be a post sent out.
>> Help from ANYONE would be just dandy.
>> 
>> Here is the error log entry:
>> Feb 03 12:28:22 2000 post: Traceback (innermost last):
>> post:   File "/home/mailman/scripts/post", line 73, in ?
>> post:      mlist.Post(msg, approved=fromusenet)
>> post:   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1360, in Post
>> post:      self.DeliverToList(msg, recipients,header = self.msg_header %
>> d,footer = self.msg_footer % d) 
>> post: ValueError :  unsupported format character ']' (0x5d) 
>> 
>> 
>> Here is what the email to me(the admin) was:
>>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>> Traceback (innermost last):
>>   File "/home/mailman/scripts/post", line 73, in ?
>>     mlist.Post(msg, approved=fromusenet)
>>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1360, in Post
>>     self.DeliverToList(msg, recipients,header = self.msg_header % d,footer
>> = self.msg_footer % d) 
>> ValueError: unsupported format character ']' (0x5d)
>> 554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post usnewsandmorindareport"... unknown
>> mailer error 1
>> 
>> 
>> I run three lists and the other two work just fine.  I've tried replacing
>> the MailList.py file and that did not work.  I can't seem to find the
>> problem.
>> -- 
>> Jared Meeker
>> System Operator
>> Morinda, Inc.

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