Mark Sapiro wrote: > >It looks like msg_footer (on the list's Non-digest options page), and >possibly also digest_footer (on the list's Digest options page), has a >non-ascii character in it. > > Ahhh... yeah. The question is, what next? I run into this fairly often (a few times a month) when trying to delete spam that's awaiting my approval.
Looking at the archives to the mailing list, I've seen that different people have had this problem since 2003 in one form or another. I've discovered if I clean out any list's list of pending mail, I can copy the appropriate files to the other lists and delete the offending pending files. However, this really isn't a good answer to the question. Sure, non-ascii characters aren't legal in email addresses, subject lines, and so on. However, the spammers don't seem to mind... personally, I'd be just as happy of Mailman dropped those messages into the bit bucket without even telling me about it, though that may not really be a good answer. Still, it seems Mailman should be able to handle the illegal data a bit more elegantly.... what's the old system designer mantra, "Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle"? Mike -- ...The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvaldis claims to be trying to take over the world... Mike Avery mavery at mail dot otherwhen dot com home baker ICQ 16241692 networking guru AIM mavery81230 wordsmith Yahoo mavery81230 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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