db/message: fix email-missing warning

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/alot/db/message.py b/alot/db/message.py
index 836a9963..20782c5a 100644
--- a/alot/db/message.py
+++ b/alot/db/message.py
@@ -423,14 +423,13 @@ class Message:
         return self.filenames[0]
 
     def _load_email(self, session_keys):
-        warning = b"Subject: Caution!\n"\
-                  b"Message file is no longer accessible:\n%s" % self.filename
         try:
             with open(self.filename, 'rb') as f:
                 mail = email.message_from_bytes(f.read(), policy = email.policy.SMTP)
         except IOError:
-            mail = email.message_from_string(
-                warning, policy=email.policy.SMTP)
+            warning = b"Subject: Caution!\n"\
+                      b"Message file is no longer accessible:\n%s" % self.filename
+            mail = email.message_from_bytes(warning, policy = email.policy.SMTP)
 
         return mail