Mark, Running crontab -u mailman -i just reads out crontab.in.
The edit to charset.py worked and the digests have been generated. Thank you for your commitment to help. It really makes a big difference to us adminstrators. I wonder why this particular installation presented a unique problem. Thanks again, Christopher Adams On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Mark Sapiro<m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > Christopher Adams wrote: >> >>>From crontab.in : > > > What about from > > crontab -u mailman -l > > although it's popbably the same. > > >># >># Noon, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshhold >>delivery. >>0 12 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests >># >> >>This invokes version 2.5. >> >>>From senddigests: >> >>#! /usr/local/bin/python >> >>This invokes version 2.5 > > > Take a look at /usr/local/lib/python2.5/email/charset.py. At around > line 196, you should see > > def __init__(self, input_charset=DEFAULT_CHARSET): > > followed by 4 comment lines and > > try: > if isinstance(input_charset, unicode): > input_charset.encode('ascii') > else: > input_charset = unicode(input_charset, 'ascii') > except UnicodeError: > raise errors.CharsetError(input_charset) > input_charset = input_charset.lower() > > This may be a problem, although others who've had this problem with a > different email package have switched to this one and it solved the > problem. Try changing > > else: > input_charset = unicode(input_charset, 'ascii') > > to > > else: > unicode(input_charset, 'ascii') > > and then restart Mailman. > > If that fixes the problem for you, I don't know why others don't have > this problem with email 4.0.1, but at least you will be OK. > > > -- > Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > -- Christopher Adams adam...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------ 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