Comment 3 for bug 69760

I can confirm that this is indeed an issue in Edgy Eft. I was working around it in Dapper by using python2.2, but that doesn't exist.

This makes Edgy's version TOTALLY BROKEN for anyone who uses non-ascii characters!

The problem, for those that want to know, is that that Mailman uses an older version of the email package. Python2.4 uses version 3.x, and mailman needs 2.5.x.

The fix in debian is to re-enable the 2.5.x of email that comes with mailman.

Workaround:
  # apt-get source mailman
  # cd mailman-*/misc
  # tar xzf email-2.5.?.tar.gz
  # cd email-2.5.?
  # python setup.py install --install-lib /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman

Ciao!