Sending Email with japanese text(Python)

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import smtplib
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.Header import Header
from email.Utils import formatdate

import accountfile

ID = accountfile.id # etc "yourname@gmail.com"
PASSWORD = accountfile.password
TO = accountfile.to  #etc "spam@spam.spam"

def send_via_gmail(from_addr, to_addr, msg):
    s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
    s.ehlo()
    s.starttls()
    s.ehlo()
    s.login(ID, PASSWORD)
    s.sendmail(from_addr, [to_addr], msg.as_string())
    s.close()

def create_message(from_addr, to_addr, subject, body, encoding):
    msg = MIMEText(body, 'plain', encoding)
    msg['Subject'] = Header(subject, encoding)
    msg['From'] = from_addr
    msg['To'] = to_addr
    return msg

if __name__ == '__main__':
        from_addr = ID
        to_addr = TO
        SUBJECT = "test"
        MESSAGE = open('mailbody.txt').read()
        msg = create_message(from_addr, to_addr, SUBJECT, MESSAGE, 'ISO-2022-JP')
        send_via_gmail(from_addr, to_addr, msg)

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References:
effbot http://effbot.org/librarybook/smtplib.htm
aspn http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52243
UnoLabs http://labs.unoh.net/2007/06/python_2.html
about JIS http://www.kanzaki.com/docs/jis-mail.html#JIS

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