hotfix issue with shlex and unicode chars

this means that shell commands taken from the config
can't include fancy utf8 symbols

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/alot/send.py b/alot/send.py
index 03d90bf4..02fdc683 100644
--- a/alot/send.py
+++ b/alot/send.py
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ class SendmailSender(Sender):
 
     def send_mail(self, mail):
         mail['Date'] = email.utils.formatdate(time.time(), True)
-        args = shlex.split(self.cmd)
+        args = shlex.split(self.cmd.encode('ascii'))  # no unicode in shlex on 2.x
+        logging.info('args:%s' % args)
         try:
             proc = subprocess.Popen(args, stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
                                     stdout=subprocess.PIPE,