lmtp delivery fails with unicode characters

[paultaiton]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
"main", mod_spec)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "/home/cloudmra/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cloudmra/main.py", line 91, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/cloudmra/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cloudmra/main.py", line 84, in main
main_overseer.process()
File "/home/cloudmra/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cloudmra/main.py", line 51, in process
if (self.outhandler.deliver(message, i)):
File "/home/cloudmra/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cloudmra/deliveryhandler.py", line 22, in deliver
self.lmtp.sendmail(from_addr='', to_addrs=receipient, msg=message)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/smtplib.py", line 855, in sendmail
msg = _fix_eols(msg).encode('ascii')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xae' in position 10431: ordinal not in range(128)