A couple of posts on the mailman-users list (<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-September/046400.html> and <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-October/047367.html>) have pointed out that there is a problem with Scrubber.py.
The basic issue is that under some circumstances, the scrubbed message is quoted-printable encoded, but Scrubber unconditionally adds a 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit' header resulting in garbled content when the message is viewed. The addition of the header was a small part of the patch at <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=655214&group_id=103&atid=300103> and the associated comment is - Fixes a bug in the scrubber, where a content-transfer-encoding might have survived flattening of the message. I think the fix for the current problem is the following patch - --- mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py +++ mailman-mas/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py @@ -376,9 +376,8 @@ # Now join the text and set the payload sep = _('-------------- next part --------------\n') del msg['content-type'] - msg.set_payload(sep.join(text), charset) del msg['content-transfer-encoding'] - msg.add_header('Content-Transfer-Encoding', '8bit') + msg.set_payload(sep.join(text), charset) return msg I have checked this with Tokio, and he agrees, but I don't have any message that would have triggered the original bug to test against nor do I know what the characteristics of such a message would be or if subsequent changes in the Python email library have taken care of it. Thus, before committing this patch, I'd like to see it get a bit more exposure/testing and/or get feedback from someone who knows something about the original bug. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
