UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd8 in position 54: ordinal not in range(128)

[thestick613]

2017-03-08 21:35:42,844.844 ERROR socket - _log_error: fd:124:error address=('fmx.freemail.hu', 25) args=(1, u'[SSL: ...l.c:590)') message='[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:590)'
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/root/venv_cpython_2017/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gevent/greenlet.py", line 536, in run
 result = self._run(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
 File "/root/venv_cpython_2017/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slimta/relay/smtp/client.py", line 290, in _run
 relay_error = SmtpRelayError.factory(reply)
 File "/root/venv_cpython_2017/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slimta/relay/smtp/__init__.py", line 50, in factory
 return SmtpTransientRelayError(reply)
 File "/root/venv_cpython_2017/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slimta/relay/smtp/__init__.py", line 56, in __init__
 super(SmtpTransientRelayError, self).__init__('Transient', reply)
 File "/root/venv_cpython_2017/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slimta/relay/smtp/__init__.py", line 42, in __init__
 type, command.decode('ascii'), str(reply))
 File "/root/venv_cpython_2017/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slimta/smtp/reply.py", line 114, in __bytes__
 self.message.encode('utf-8')))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd8 in position 54: ordinal not in range(128)
Wed Mar 8 21:35:42 2017 <SmtpRelayClient at 0x2acfcff16d70> failed with UnicodeDecodeError

[cneberg]

Try something like this. It fixed my issues with odd utf-8 in the Subject header.

diff --git a/slimta/util/pycompat.py b/slimta/util/pycompat.py
index f81edad..eea5dac 100644
--- a/slimta/util/pycompat.py
+++ b/slimta/util/pycompat.py
@@ -47,9 +47,14 @@ if PY3:
 
 from email.generator import BytesGenerator
 from email.parser import BytesParser
- from email.policy import SMTP
- parser = partial(BytesParser, policy=SMTP)
- generator = partial(BytesGenerator, policy=SMTP)
+ from email.policy import compat32
+
+ # compat32 doesn't decode headers and leaves
+ # them as-is 7-bit - so less Unicode errors
+
+ custom = compat32.clone(linesep='\r\n')
+ parser = partial(BytesParser, policy=custom)
+ generator = partial(BytesGenerator, policy=custom)
 else:
 from itertools import imap
 map_func = imap