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Ok, here's your smaller version.  In Python 2.2.2, this
makes a message with a base64 encoded body which is not
automagically decoded by my email client.  In Python 2.2.1,
the body is cleartext. 

#!/usr/bin/env python2.2
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email import Encoders

print MIMEText("e-mail message body", 'html', "utf-8",
Encoders.encode_7or8bit)