mail: be more cautious about bytes vs str for py3 compat
It's suboptimal that we get a bytes on 2 and a unicode on 3, but it's
easy to work with and I'm disinclined to change anything unless we
start using some sort of type inferencer.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4233
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