- Fixed a bug in ListAdmin._handlepost that would crash when trying to

  preserve a held message for the site admin if HOLD_MESSAGES_AS_PICKLES
  is False.  (LP: #1282365)

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Mailman/ListAdmin.py b/Mailman/ListAdmin.py
index af579331..28be4c7d 100755
--- a/Mailman/ListAdmin.py
+++ b/Mailman/ListAdmin.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 1998-2011 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1998-2014 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -243,7 +243,11 @@ class ListAdmin:
                 if e.errno <> errno.ENOENT: raise
                 return LOST
             try:
-                msg = cPickle.load(fp)
+                if path.endswith('.pck'):
+                    msg = cPickle.load(fp)
+                else:
+                    assert path.endswith('.txt'), '%s not .pck or .txt' % path
+                    msg = fp.read()
             finally:
                 fp.close()
             # Save the plain text to a .msg file, not a .pck file
@@ -252,8 +256,11 @@ class ListAdmin:
             outpath = head + '.msg'
             outfp = open(outpath, 'w')
             try:
-                g = Generator(outfp)
-                g.flatten(msg, 1)
+                if path.endswith('.pck'):
+                    g = Generator(outfp)
+                    g.flatten(msg, 1)
+                else:
+                    outfp.write(msg)
             finally:
                 outfp.close()
         # Now handle updates to the database