Related: fdo#66761 we want the bytes, not a str representation of them

Change-Id: I3c268b0c51f7e1ddd2fa6588f40412a33f316b52

scripting/source/pyprov/mailmerge.py

@@ -183,9 +183,11 @@ class PyMailSMTPService(unohelper.Base, XSmtpService):
 					textmsg['MIME-Version'] = '1.0'
 
 					try:
+						#it's a string, get it as utf-8 bytes
 						textbody = textbody.encode('utf-8')
 					except:
-						textbody = str(textbody.value).encode('utf-8')
+						#it's a bytesequence, get raw bytes
+						textbody = textbody.value
 					if sys.version >= '3':
 						#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9403265/how-do-i-use-python-3-2-email-module-to-send-unicode-messages-encoded-in-utf-8-w
 						textbody = textbody.decode('iso8859-1')