#19186: fail send utf-8 email
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Reporter: alex_po | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Core (Mail) | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: mail utf8 python3 | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by lukeplant):
* keywords: mail, utf8 => mail utf8 python3
* needs_docs: => 0
* needs_better_patch: => 0
* needs_tests: => 0
* stage: Unreviewed => Accepted
Comment:
I haven't fully reproduced it, but can confirm that
`EmailMessage.message().as_string` is returning a unicode object not a
bytestring object, on Python 3.2 and 3.3, as follows.
{{{
>>> EmailMessage('тест', 'тест', '[email protected]',
['[email protected]']).message().as_string()
}}}
On Python 2 it is returning a bytestring, and I think that smtplib is
expecting a bytestring, hence the problem.
Logically, this method ought to produce a bytestring, since it applies the
encoding specified and returns a series of bytes fir for sending over the
network (which includes in it a declaration of the charset).
However, our `SafeMIMEText` class that is doing this inherits from the
stdlib `MIMEText` class, and it follows the implementation of `MIMEText`.
`MIMEText.as_string()` also produces a unicode string under Python 3. This
seems crazy to me, since the entire job of `MIMEText` is to encode the
input data as an email message ready to be sent over SMTP. But it's
difficult to believe they did this without thought.
It may be that we are not supposed to be using the `as_string()` method to
render to a string. But it's not clear what we should be using.
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