[ mailman-Bugs-1507248 ] no delivery to lists "wrong" footer characters

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Bugs item #1507248, was opened at 2006-06-16 14:14
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Category: mail delivery
Group: 2.1 (stable)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Ulrik Haugen (ulrik_haugen)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: no delivery to lists "wrong" footer characters

Initial Comment:
Mailman 2.1.8:

I recently had a problem with list administrators
changing the footer to something containing characters
that do not fit the default language for the list.
(Actually it was the result of an upgrade but it can be
reproduced more easily this way.)

This resulted in letters to these lists going to the
archive but not beeing distributed to list members.


After some investigation i discovered that they were
instead getting sent to the shunt directory with the
following error message in logs/error:

Jun 15 16:40:26 2006 (11718) Uncaught runner exception:
ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
Jun 15 16:40:26 2006 (11718) Traceback (most recent
call last):
  File "/service/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line
111, in _oneloop
    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/service/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line
167, in _onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File
"/service/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py",
line 73, in _dispose
    self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File
"/service/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line
132, in process
    Decorate.process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/service/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py",
line 99, in process
    ufooter = unicode(footer, lcset)
UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in
range(128)

Jun 15 16:40:26 2006 (11718) SHUNTING:
1150382425.6505611+4f10f0ef8067c96952336a07919d018adc6a9979


I think this is a very bad idea as it results in the
list administrator complaining to me as site
administrator about letters not being delivered instead
of (for instance) the list members complaing to the
list administrator about unreadable characters in the
footer.

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