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-rw-r--r--alot/db/utils.py5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/alot/db/utils.py b/alot/db/utils.py
index 88e2b0f2..ef51a8b5 100644
--- a/alot/db/utils.py
+++ b/alot/db/utils.py
@@ -366,6 +366,11 @@ def extract_body(mail, types=None, field_key='copiousoutput'):
raw_payload = payload.encode('raw-unicode-escape')
try:
payload = raw_payload.decode(enc)
+ except LookupError:
+ # In this case the email has an unknown encoding, fall back to
+ # guessing
+ enc = helper.guess_encoding(raw_payload)
+ payload = raw_payload.decode(enc)
except UnicodeDecodeError:
pass
elif cte != '7bit':