[1.6.x] Fixed #21093 -- Ensured that mails are not base64 encoded on python 3.3.3+.

Thanks to Arfrever for the report and Aymeric for the review.

Backport of f28ea02308 from master.

django/core/mail/message.py

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ import os
 import random
 import sys
 import time
+from email import generator
 from email import charset as Charset, encoders as Encoders
-from email.generator import Generator
 from email.mime.text import MIMEText
 from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
 from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
@@ -119,7 +119,34 @@ def sanitize_address(addr, encoding):
     return formataddr((nm, addr))
 
 
-class SafeMIMEText(MIMEText):
+class MIMEMixin():
+    def as_string(self, unixfrom=False):
+        """Return the entire formatted message as a string.
+        Optional `unixfrom' when True, means include the Unix From_ envelope
+        header.
+
+        This overrides the default as_string() implementation to not mangle
+        lines that begin with 'From '. See bug #13433 for details.
+        """
+        # Using a normal Generator on python 3 will yield a string, which will
+        # get base64 encoded in some cases to ensure that it's always convertable
+        # to ascii. We don't want base64 encoded emails, so we use a BytesGenertor
+        # which will do the right thing and then decode according to our known
+        # encoding. See #21093 and #3472 for details.
+        if six.PY3 and sys.version_info >= (3, 3, 3):
+            fp = six.BytesIO()
+            g = generator.BytesGenerator(fp, mangle_from_=False)
+            g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
+            encoding = self.get_charset().get_output_charset() if self.get_charset() else 'utf-8'
+            return fp.getvalue().decode(encoding)
+        else:
+            fp = six.StringIO()
+            g = generator.Generator(fp, mangle_from_=False)
+            g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
+            return fp.getvalue()
+
+
+class SafeMIMEText(MIMEMixin, MIMEText):
 
     def __init__(self, text, subtype, charset):
         self.encoding = charset
@@ -129,24 +156,8 @@ class SafeMIMEText(MIMEText):
         name, val = forbid_multi_line_headers(name, val, self.encoding)
         MIMEText.__setitem__(self, name, val)
 
-    def as_string(self, unixfrom=False):
-        """Return the entire formatted message as a string.
-        Optional `unixfrom' when True, means include the Unix From_ envelope
-        header.
 
-        This overrides the default as_string() implementation to not mangle
+class SafeMIMEMultipart(MIMEMixin, MIMEMultipart):
-        lines that begin with 'From '. See bug #13433 for details.
-        """
-        fp = six.StringIO()
-        g = Generator(fp, mangle_from_ = False)
-        if sys.version_info < (2, 6, 6) and isinstance(self._payload, six.text_type):
-            # Workaround for http://bugs.python.org/issue1368247
-            self._payload = self._payload.encode(self._charset.output_charset)
-        g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
-        return fp.getvalue()
-
-
-class SafeMIMEMultipart(MIMEMultipart):
 
     def __init__(self, _subtype='mixed', boundary=None, _subparts=None, encoding=None, **_params):
         self.encoding = encoding
@@ -156,19 +167,6 @@ class SafeMIMEMultipart(MIMEMultipart):
         name, val = forbid_multi_line_headers(name, val, self.encoding)
         MIMEMultipart.__setitem__(self, name, val)
 
-    def as_string(self, unixfrom=False):
-        """Return the entire formatted message as a string.
-        Optional `unixfrom' when True, means include the Unix From_ envelope
-        header.
-
-        This overrides the default as_string() implementation to not mangle
-        lines that begin with 'From '. See bug #13433 for details.
-        """
-        fp = six.StringIO()
-        g = Generator(fp, mangle_from_ = False)
-        g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
-        return fp.getvalue()
-
 
 class EmailMessage(object):
     """