[Mailman-Users] shunt messages

[Nicolas Bertrand]

Hello,

We are having some serious problem with a 2.1.2 mailman install. Some
messages get transferred to qfiles/shunt and stay there forever. I am
calling on your help on this one. 

I understand from previous mailing list posts that the shunt directory
is used by mailman if:
   o messages are too large to get delivered
   o bug in mailman
   o problem with python installation
  
The original error message (in logs/error) was indicating some problem
with the 'strptime' module:
This was confirmed:
python
Python 2.2 (#1, Aug  4 2003, 14:00:57) 
[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time
>>> time.strptime
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'strptime'

In the hope of remedying this, I have installed python 2.3
Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 17 2003, 21:23:32)
[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time
>>> time.strptime
<built-in function strptime>

As you can see python is now happy with the time.strptime module.

I then proceeded to reinstall mailman. All seemed fine. I then
proceeded to unshunt the messages... In vain. They come back to the
shunt directory.

However, the error is  different:
Sep 18 08:42:40 2003 (15588) Uncaught runner exception: Empty module
name
Sep 18 08:42:40 2003 (15588) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop
    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in
_dispose
    more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
  File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in
_dopipelin
e
    sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 89, in
process
    send_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
  File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 130, in
send_digests
    send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
  File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 303, in
send_i18n_dig
ests
    msg = scrubber(mlist, msg)
  File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 308, in
process
    t = t.encode(charset, 'replace')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings/__init__.py", line 84, in
search_func
tion
    globals(), locals(), _import_tail)
ValueError: Empty module name

Sep 18 08:42:40 2003 (15588) SHUNTING:
1063634404.28272+cdaf6755effffbc39a35d78f
3db0024abd9cce07

Any ideas?

Nic
CEH Oxford