[Mailman-Users] Uncaught runner exception: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range

[michael dunston]

For the second time in a few weeks, one of my lists has stopped
delivering mail.  (Mailman 2.1.1 w/ sendmail) Can anyone possibly
provide some ideas on what the error below might mean and how I might
solve it?  Last time I ended up deleting and recreating the list as the
solution.  Could this possibly be the result of a malformed message?  If
so, is there a way to remove it without deleting everything?  Thanks in
advance for any suggestions..

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Oct 07 18:44:48 2003 (485) Uncaught runner exception: 
    ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
Oct 07 18:44:48 2003 (485) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, 
    in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, 
    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 82, in 
    process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 123, in 
    send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 303, in 
    send_i18n_digests print >> plainmsg, msg.get_payload(decode=1)
  UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
Oct 07 18:44:48 2003 (485) SHUNTING: 
    1065566687.193175+42dca3e6bc6e314e2282610157cc69be07003f6c

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