[Mailman-Users] and a message to root from output cron job

[Richard Barrett]

Javier

On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 11:48  am, javier wrote:

>
>> From 	Super-User <root>
> To 	root
> Date 	Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:36:06 +0100 (MET)
> Subject 	Output from "cron" command
>
> Your "cron" job on burlador
> /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests
>
> produced the following output:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 94, in ?
>    main()
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 86, in main
>    mlist.send_digest_now()
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Digester.py", line 60, in 
> send_digest_now
>    ToDigest.send_digests(self, mboxfp)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 131, in 
> send_digests
>    send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 304, in 
> send_i18n_digests
>    msg = scrubber(mlist, msg)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 311, in 
> process
>    t = t.encode(charset, 'replace')
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/encodings/__init__.py", line 51, in 
> search_function
>    mod = __import__(modname,globals(),locals(),'*')
> ValueError: Empty module name
>

 From a quick look at the code, I think this may happen if a message has 
an invalid Content-type: header of the form:

Content-type: text/foo; charset=

That is, it has a charset parameter but no actual value has been 
assigned to it. But I could be wrong.

As a quick fix you could try changing line 280 of 
$prefix/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py from:

         if charset is None or charset == 'us-ascii':

to:

         if charset is None or charset == '' or charset == 'us-ascii':

If you try this hack let me know whether it works or not. I am not sure 
if this is the best long term fix but if it appears to work I will look 
at the problem a bit further.

Do not forget to backup the Scrubber.py before changing it in case you 
have to revert to the original.

Regards

Richard

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