On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 15:15, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
This gave me an idea, since I had a list with a binary email address (how? add_members of a directory instead of a file in the directory. oops).
Oh, I should point out one other thing. I fixed Mailman cvs so that it would reject non-ascii characters in the email address. Not in the realname of course, but only in the email address.
That's interesting. It appears to me, though, that realnames with certain characters can also cause problems, and might even provide a means to do a service denial.
Yesterday I had a complaint from one of our list managers that no traffic was getting through the list. I checked, and found exceptions in the error log that looked like this:
Mar 21 09:55:32 2003 (19445) Uncaught runner exception: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
Mar 21 09:55:32 2003 (19445) Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop
self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile
keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 189, in _dispose
Replybot.process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Replybot.py", line 106, in process
subject, text, mlist.preferred_language)
File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 203, in __init__
self['Subject'] = Header(subject, charset, header_name='Subject')
File "/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 166, in __init__
self.append(s, charset)
File "/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 251, in append
ustr = unicode(s, incodec)
UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
Mar 21 09:55:32 2003 (19445) SHUNTING: 1048258532.173237+a971c23a19dece2178fb7b2fa6e056851160771b
I checked the list, and found that (among other things) a member had subscribed with a realname like "Fred Smith (Austin)". "Couldn't be the parens," I thought. But after looking around to find other possible explanations, in vain, I decided to just try removing the " (Austin)" part of the realname string. Voila -- after un-shunting, every shunted post (30 or so) went through unimpeded.
I've since tried reproducing the error, and I can't. So it's possible that something else fixed the problem, though I made no other changes.
--Dwight Ernest
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