diff --git a/addons/crm/scripts/openerp_mailgate/openerp_mailgate.py b/addons/crm/scripts/openerp_mailgate/openerp_mailgate.py
index 1417aa71ddf..497f1014eb9 100755
--- a/addons/crm/scripts/openerp_mailgate/openerp_mailgate.py
+++ b/addons/crm/scripts/openerp_mailgate/openerp_mailgate.py
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ def html2plaintext(html, body_id=None, encoding='utf-8'):
     
     soup = BeautifulSoup(html, parseOnlyThese=strainer, fromEncoding=encoding)
     for link in soup.findAll('a'):
-        title = link.renderContents()
+        title = unicode(link)
         for url in [x[1] for x in link.attrs if x[0]=='href']:
-            urls.append(dict(url=url, tag=str(link), title=title))
+            urls.append(dict(url=url, tag=unicode(link), title=title))
 
     html = unicode(soup)
             
@@ -162,12 +162,9 @@ class email_parser(object):
            if charset:
                try:
                    return s.decode(charset)
-               except UnicodeError:  
-                    pass         
-       try:
-           return s.decode('ascii')
-       except UnicodeError:
-           return s 
+               except UnicodeError:
+                    pass
+       return s.decode('latin1')
 
     def _decode_header(self, s):
         from email.Header import decode_header