Hi I think i found a solution to my problem at least. On further inspection the function that produced the error was the one appending the standard footer. When i remove the footer text in mailman, the msgs. are deliverd normally
/thomas On Jan 2, 2006, at 12:48, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas von Hassel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thomas> Hi i have a mailman 2.1.6 installation on freebsd 4.9 > > Thomas> Many of the msgs. to my lists are beging shunted with this > Thomas> error: > > Thomas> Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte > Thomas> 0xe6 in position 18: ordinal not in range(128) > > My guess it that you have a lot of users with MUAs that don't conform > to RFC 822 (let alone RFC 2822), and they are sending non-ASCII in the > headers. Mailman doesn't like that. (Do your users normally use the > "ae" ligature---ISO-8859-1 value of 0xE6?) > > Thomas> Most of these msgs. are normal, plaintext msgs. Is there a > Thomas> way to force these msgs to the list, or is there something > Thomas> i could look at so these msgs. don't get shunted. > > If it's what I think it is, no. Mailman 2.1.x simply assumes that > (raw) headers are not going to contain non-ASCII, period. *All* > headers that will display as non-ASCII must be MIME-encoded. > > > -- > School of Systems and Information Engineering http:// > turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp > University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba > 305-8573 JAPAN > Ask not how you can "do" free software business; > ask what your business can "do for" free software. Thomas von Hassel [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Foiled in yellow this direction, the lawyer next spoon advised making the hot attempt" ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users 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-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
