From 501d793398c3ecc3c8a54475d07609cf34643553 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:09:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #19107 -- Workarounded message-encoding bug on Python <
 2.6.6

Thanks Bernardo Pires for the report.
---
 django/core/mail/message.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/django/core/mail/message.py b/django/core/mail/message.py
index db9023a0bb..98ab3c9075 100644
--- a/django/core/mail/message.py
+++ b/django/core/mail/message.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import mimetypes
 import os
 import random
+import sys
 import time
 from email import charset as Charset, encoders as Encoders
 from email.generator import Generator
@@ -138,6 +139,9 @@ class SafeMIMEText(MIMEText):
         """
         fp = six.StringIO()
         g = Generator(fp, mangle_from_ = False)
+        if sys.version_info < (2, 6, 6) and isinstance(self._payload, six.text_type):
+            # Workaround for http://bugs.python.org/issue1368247
+            self._payload = self._payload.encode(self._charset.output_charset)
         g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
         return fp.getvalue()