ASCII decoding error

[Rangerrick-users]

I get the following when trying to hit the "members"
page on a mailing list we have. If you need more
information for debugging or similar, let me know.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
    main()
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 192,
in main
    show_results(mlist, doc, category, subcat, cgidata)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 491,
in show_results
    form.AddItem(membership_options(mlist, subcat,
cgidata, doc, form))
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 799,
in membership_options
    all = [_m.encode() for _m in mlist.getMembers()]
UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in
range(128)

Python information:

Variable Value
sys.version 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11) [GCC
3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)]
sys.executable /usr/bin/python
sys.prefix /usr
sys.exec_prefix /usr
sys.path /usr
sys.platform linux2

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=828381&group_id=103&atid=100103]

[Latchkey (latchkey)]

I recently posted this on the developer mailing list...no
response...=(

------ Forwarded Message
From: Jon Scott Stevens
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:22:56 -0700
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Mailman-Developers] Bug in mailman 2.1.3

Hello everyone.

I just got the stack trace below from one of my list
admins...not sure how
he screwed things up...but I figured I would let you
know...based on the
traceback, it seems that he somehow got a strange character
into the list of
members...

[share] 3:16pm ~ > ./bin/check_db -v sfindie-fence
List: sfindie-fence
   /usr/local/mailman/lists/sfindie-fence/config.pck: okay
   /usr/local/mailman/lists/sfindie-fence/config.pck.last: okay
   /usr/local/mailman/lists/sfindie-fence/config.db: okay
   /usr/local/mailman/lists/sfindie-fence/config.db.last: okay

[share] 3:17pm ~ > ./bin/list_members -u sfindie-fence
            [no output]
[share] 3:18pm ~ > ./bin/list_members -i sfindie-fence
Ê[e-mail]
[share] 3:18pm ~ > ./bin/list_members -i sfindie-fence > bad.txt
[share] 3:19pm ~ > ./bin/remove_members -f bad.txt sfindie-fence

Yup...removing that address solved the problem.

Note: this list admin only has access to the web interface.
So, somehow he
was able to send corrupt data to the server which caused
this problem.
Probably not a good thing. =)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bug in Mailman version 2.1.3

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

If you would like to help us identify the problem, please
email a copy of
this page to the webmaster for this site with a description
of what
happened. Thanks!
Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in
run_main
    main()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 192,
in main
    show_results(mlist, doc, category, subcat, cgidata)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 491,
in show_results
    form.AddItem(membership_options(mlist, subcat, cgidata,
doc, form))
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 799, in
membership_options
    all = [_m.encode() for _m in mlist.getMembers()]
UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

It was possible in older versions of Mailman to get
non-ascii characters into the email addresses. Mailman
2.1.3 should prevent this, and removing invalid addresses as
you've done below is the way to fix older lists.