﻿id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
27848	EmailMessage.attach_file() with .eml file crashes	RAMAGE Sébastien	Claude Paroz <claude@…>	".eml file could not be attached to EmailMessage using .attach_file() because it raise the following error :
initial_value must be str or None, not bytes

maybe related to mimetype message/rfc822

{{{
File ""/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/django/core/mail/message.py"", line 292, in send return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self]) 
File ""/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py"", line 107, in send_messages sent = self._send(message) 
File ""/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py"", line 121, in _send message = email_message.message() 
File ""/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/django/core/mail/message.py"", line 256, in message msg = self._create_message(msg) 
File ""/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/django/core/mail/message.py"", line 344, in _create_message return self._create_attachments(msg) 
File ""/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/django/core/mail/message.py"", line 357, in _create_attachments msg.attach(self._create_attachment(*attachment)) 
File ""/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/django/core/mail/message.py"", line 399, in _create_attachment attachment = self._create_mime_attachment(content, mimetype) 
File ""/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/django/core/mail/message.py"", line 380, in _create_mime_attachment content = message_from_string(content) 
File ""/usr/lib/python3.5/email/__init__.py"", line 38, in message_from_string return Parser(*args, **kws).parsestr(s) 
File ""/usr/lib/python3.5/email/parser.py"", line 68, in parsestr return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly) 
TypeError: initial_value must be str or None, not bytes
}}}
"	Bug	closed	Core (Mail)	dev	Normal	fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0
