On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 05:53, Simon White wrote: > 04-Dec-03 at 11:29, Simon White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > >From error log: > > > > +-+-+ > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py", line 262, > > in prefix_subject > > h.append(s, c) > > File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 285, in > > append > > s = s.encode(outcodec, errors) > > LookupError: unknown encoding > > +-+-+ > > > > Why did this message not go out? Where else can I look for clues?
Look at the message itself. Looks like the message was encoded (or tagged) with a value that Python doesn't understand - so it booted it. > > I've had a bit of a dig around, and there is an additional line that > might be useful: > > error:Dec 02 00:31:22 2003 (10105) SHUNTING: > 1070321356.34+ec99e9abf81cb9cfc97f800c236baa2e64f19faa > > this message is now in qfiles/shunt > > I can't try unshunting it right now because if that works the server > will saturate, there are about 13,000 subscribers and the server is too > busy during the day to handle that. Indeed the message is a little out > of date and needs updating, so how can I just get rid of it? Is it safe > to delete the .db and .pck files in qfiles/shunt? Yes. > > The message in question had a French subject line with one 8 bit > character (Ã)... could that have caused problems? Yes. ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org