wrap some things in try/except blocks

gpgmymail

@@ -72,7 +72,12 @@ def decode_email(message: email.message.Message) -> email.message.Message:
 
     # this is a kinda hacky way to do this by manipulating the message as a
     # string but i couldn't get it to work any other way
-    decoded_bytes = message.as_bytes()
+
+    # sometimes this raises an exception and idk why
+    try:
+        decoded_bytes = message.as_bytes()
+    except UnicodeEncodeError:
+        decoded_bytes = message.as_string().encode()
     # if email doesn't need decoding
     has_quopri = b'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable' in decoded_bytes
     has_base64 = b'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64' in decoded_bytes
@@ -189,7 +194,12 @@ def encrypt(
         return message.as_string()
 
     # make necessary changes to message
-    message = decode_email(message)
+    # this function is quite clunky and seems to throw exceptions from time to
+    # time; if we can't make the necessary changes we want to just continue
+    try:
+        message = decode_email(message)
+    except:
+        pass
     
     gpg = gnupg.GPG()
     gpg.encoding = encoding