[Mailman-Users] Re: Text encoding problems

[Bill Cole]

On 2025-03-27 at 16:46:38 UTC-0400 (Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:46:38 +0100)
Christian Buser via Mailman-Users 
is rumored to have said:


Hi all

Mailman 2.2.0 on cPanel


There is no version 2.2.* of the public version of Mailman.

You issue needs to be taken up with cPanel. They've forked Mailman 2 in 
order to support Python 3.x, a task that the core maintainers of Mailman 
2 deemed to be a waste of effort many years ago.


The main problem area in porting Python 2.x software to Python 3.x is 
text encoding. It is a sure bet that your problem is caused by cPanel's 
private additions to the version of Mailman 2 that the rest of the world 
uses.





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[Mailman-Users] Re: Text encoding problems

[Jerry Barnabee via Mailman-Users]

You can see the latest CPANEL updates here:

https://docs.cpanel.net/changelogs/126-change-log/



> On Mar 27, 2025, at 3:46 PM, Christian Buser via Mailman-Users 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Mailman 2.2.0 on cPanel
> 
> In the last few days, several messages (not all!) showed problems with their 
> text encodings.
> 
> This means, messages containing non-standard characters, like ä, ö, ü, etc. 
> do not arrive properly at the subscriber’s side. Instead of "ä", they show 
> "=C3=A4", for example. And at the line end, a single "=".  The headers 
> usually contain
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> 
> which should be correct.
> 
> When I look at the "raw source" of such messages, I see a block of 
> base64-encoded text. I can copy this text block and insert it in a 
> base64-"decoder", such as , I see the same 
> effect as in the mail program.
> 
> Yesterday, I answered to such a message. And my message arrived at the 
> subscriber’s end as base64-encoded text, it was not decoded by the 
> recipients’ mail program, although its header contained the same indications 
> as above (utf-8, base64).
> 
> I checked with several mail programs; all of them just showed the 
> base64-encoded block in the mail body.
> 
> Does anybody have a solution? Did cPanel change something on its 
> Mailman-part? Did cPanel "update" Mailman in the last few days (our provider 
> says that such updates are automatic and he doesn’t know if there was one)?
> 
> Most of the subscribers use Mail from Apple in various versions, but there 
> are also some with Thunderbird, Postbox, GyazMail, Outlook (Mac), etc.
> 
> Please ask if you need more info - I’ll try to answer them.
> 
> Thank you
> Christian
> 
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> 
> 
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