[Mailman-Users] Error: Incorrect padding?

Matt Barringer matt at wirex.com
Tue Feb 11 02:34:57 CET 2003


Yesterday we upgraded from Mailman 2.0.x to 2.1.1.  All of the lists
except for one transfered over flawlessly, but any mail sent to that one
particular list causes errors like this to be dumped into 
~mailman/logs/error:

Feb 10 17:05:20 2003 (453) Uncaught runner exception: Incorrect padding
Feb 10 17:05:20 2003 (453) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop
    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in 
_dispose
    more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in 
_dopipeline
    sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 82, in process
    send_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 123, in 
send_digests
    send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 295, in 
send_i18n_dige
sts
    msg = scrubber(mlist, msg)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 252, in process
    payload = part.get_payload(decode=1)
  File "/home/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 189, in 
get_payload
    return Utils._bdecode(payload)
  File "/home/mailman/pythonlib/email/Utils.py", line 75, in _bdecode
    value = base64.decodestring(s)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/base64.py", line 44, in decodestring
    return binascii.a2b_base64(s)
Error: Incorrect padding

Feb 10 17:05:20 2003 (453) SHUNTING: 1044925519.00936+54468b31b755be1a7fa62d057b
d3f51581aece72

This problem also comes up when the digests are generated.

Any suggestions?  This is 2.1.1 built from source on Immunix Linux 7 with 
Postfix and python 2.2.

-- 
Matt Barringer
WireX Communications, Inc.




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