[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#785642: Bug#785642: Bug#785642: queue runner dies with uncaught UnicodeDecodeError

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2015, Wouter Verhelst wrote:

> > Actually, the traceback says what's happening is CookHeaders is trying
> > to create the List-Id: header to be added to the message.
> > 
> > It tries to create a header of the form:
> > 
> > List-Id: list description <list.example.com>
> > 
> > And the exception occurs when trying to rfc 2047 encode the list's
> > description in the charset of the list's preferred language. This
> > exception should be occurring on every list post. Is that the case?
> 
> Yes.

Wouter, I think you hit the second paragraph of this:

mailman (1:2.1.16-1exp1) experimental; urgency=low                                                          
                                                                                                            
  This version has changed the encoding of most strings, templates                                          
  and pages to UTF-8 to meet the Debian release goal of full UTF-8                                          
  support in all packages. It also no longer automatically converts                                         
  mails to ISO-8859-1.                                                                                      
                                                                                                            
  If you have been using any nōn-ASCII strings in places such as                                            
  the mailing list description, these were be stored wrongly in the                                         
  list configuration file (config.pck), so you will need to change                                          
  those (e.g. via the webinterface) again in order to have them be                                          
  displayed correctly.                                                                                      
                                                                                                            
 -- Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de>  Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:35:50 +0000                                         

(from NEWS.Debian, which you “probably should” have followed ;)

So, in short, load the list config via the webinterface,
then retype the description and save the entry. Or just
use config_list and put it in as Unicode/UTF-8.

bye,
//mirabilos
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