Christopher Adams wrote: >I just upgraded to Mailman 2.1.12. I noticed that the digests are not >going out. When I run the /bin/senddigests script manually, it goes >through all list digest mailboxes and I get this message: > >List: mylistnamer: problem processing >/usr/local/mailman/lists/mylistname/digest.mbox: >decoding Unicode is not supported > >If I try to generate a specific list digest from the admin interface, >it results in the "You've Hit a Bug" message. > >I have read some about possible reasons for this error and it seems to >point to Python. > >I am running RedHat ES 3 and Python 2.5. There is a plan to move to a >new server with a newer OS, but for the short-term I am wondering if >this is a Python issue and if Python should be upgraded. The Mailman >wiki says: > > It is highly recommended that you upgrade to the latest patch release >of one of the following: > > * Python 2.4 > * Python 2.5 > >For now, we recommend using Python 2.5.2. > >Can someone verify whether this is a Python issue and will an upgrade >to 2.5.2 make a difference. Of course, I'm not sure Python 2.5 is >really designed to run on RH ES 3, but it has been doing fine up til >now.
There is an issue with Mailman 2.1.12 and some versions of the Python email package. This is mentioned in the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/pYA9> in the "Update - March 2009:" paragraph including a link to a patch to Python's email/Charset.py module that will fix it. However, I think this problem only occurs with email version 3.0.2 which only shipped with Python 2.4.4 through 2.4.6. Python 2.5 shipped with email 4.0.1 which I don't think has this specific issue. Are you sure your Mailman is using Python 2.5? Do you also have python 2.4 libraries on your system? In any case, there should be a traceback from the "we hit a bug" error in Mailman's error log. What is that? -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
