[Mailman-Users] Shunting problem

[Mark Sapiro]

NFN Smith wrote:

>I'm running Mailman 2.1.5 on a Debian 3.1 box.  In the last few days,
>I'm getting an increasing number of messages shunted, with error logs
>that look like:
>
>> Jan 30 23:10:53 2007 (3315) Uncaught runner exception: decoding
>Unicode is not supported
>> Jan 30 23:10:53 2007 (3315) Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop
>>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile
>>     keepqueued =3D self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130,
>in _dispose
>>     more =3D self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
>>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153,
>in _dopipeline
>>     sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 91, in
>process
>>     send_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
>>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 132, in
>send_digests
>>     send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
>>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 306, in
>send_i18n_digests
>>     msg =3D scrubber(mlist, msg)
>>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 318, in
>process
>>     partcharset =3D part.get_content_charset()
>>   File "email/Message.py", line 800, in get_content_charset
>> TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported
>> =
>
>> Jan 30 23:10:53 2007 (3315) SHUNTING:
>1170193244.4528749+524dabeddb1737e4b548d3ad0d7c3d9bd2c7c1a0


I believe you'll find the underlying problem is that there is a message
in /var/lib/mailman/lists/<listname>/digest.mbox with a Content-Type:
header with a charset="Unicode" parameter. If you edit the dgest.mbox
file (possibly changing charset="Unicode" to charset="utf-8" or
deleting the offending message), that will allow the list to resume
processing.

As to which <listname>, it's the one that hasn't produced a digest
since this started.


>Two questions:
>
>1) How do I get the shunted messages cleared?  What has to happen
>before I run unshunt?


Fix the digest.mbox (or just move it aside)


>2) What do I need to do to clear the problem that is causing shunting?


See 1).

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