[Mailman-Users] Messages are lost...I have followed FAQs 3.14

[Mike Avery]

Mark Sapiro wrote:

>
>It looks like msg_footer (on the list's Non-digest options page), and
>possibly also digest_footer (on the list's Digest options page), has a
>non-ascii character in it.
>  
>
Ahhh... yeah.  The question is, what next?  I run into this fairly often 
(a few times a month) when trying to delete spam that's awaiting my 
approval.

Looking at the archives to the mailing list, I've seen that different 
people have had this problem since 2003 in one form or another.

I've discovered if I clean out any list's list of pending mail, I can 
copy the appropriate files to the other lists and delete the offending 
pending files.  However, this really isn't a good answer to the question.

Sure,  non-ascii characters aren't legal in email addresses, subject 
lines, and so on.  However, the spammers don't seem to mind... 
personally, I'd be just as happy of Mailman dropped those messages into 
the bit bucket without even telling me about it, though that may not 
really be a good answer.

Still, it seems Mailman should be able to handle the illegal data a bit 
more elegantly.... what's the old system designer mantra, "Never test 
for an error condition you don't know how to handle"?

Mike


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