web.sendmail fails when the message has unicode chars

[Anand Chitipothu]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
  File "./web/utils.py", line 872, in sendmail
    smtpserver.sendmail(from_address, recipients, message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 696, in sendmail
    (code,resp) = self.data(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 493, in data
    self.send(q)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 320, in send
    self.sock.sendall(str)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 140, in send
    self.sslobj.write(str)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u1234' in position 202: ordinal not in range(128)