[Mailman-Users] Problems with digests

[Oleg Dambaev]

Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
>> In short:
>> Replace the first line in /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests
>>   # ! /usr/bin/python
>> by
>>   #! /usr/bin/python2.3
>> if you have a Python2.3 installed.
>>
>> As this problem appeared here (debian/etch, Mailman 2.1.8-2) after
>> upgrading Python 2.3 to 2.4 this seems to be reasonable.
>>     
>
> Hi, I want to clarify the situation.  Is this specific to debian?
>
> Can you try these and check the email version?
>
> $ python
> Python 2.4.3 ...
>  >>> import email
>  >>> email.__version__
> '3.0.1'
>  >>> ^D
> $ cd <prefix>/cron
> $ python
> Python 2.4.3 ...
>  >>> import paths
>  >>> import email
>  >>> email.__version__
> '2.5.7'
>
> The email-3.0.x in Python 2.4 is not suitable for mailman.  Mailman 
> 2.1.8(or 9) works best with the email-2.5.7(or 8) which is the bug fix 
> version of Python 2.3 library.
>
>   
# python
Python 2.4.3 (#2, Apr 25 2006, 07:14:33)
[GCC 3.4.4 [FreeBSD] 20050518] on freebsd6
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import email
 >>> email.__version__
'3.0.1'
# cd /usr/local/mailman/cron/
# python
Python 2.4.3 (#2, Apr 25 2006, 07:14:33)
[GCC 3.4.4 [FreeBSD] 20050518] on freebsd6
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import paths
 >>> import email
 >>> email.__version__
'2.5.6'
# uname -spr
FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE i386