old_contents: """
  This module contains the SESBackend class, which is what you'll want to set in
  your settings.py::
  
      EMAIL_BACKEND = 'seacucumber.backend.SESBackend'
  """
  from django.core.mail.backends.base import BaseEmailBackend
  from seacucumber.tasks import SendEmailTask
  
  
  class SESBackend(BaseEmailBackend):
      """
      A Django Email backend that uses Amazon's Simple Email Service.
      """
      def send_messages(self, email_messages):
          """
          Sends one or more EmailMessage objects and returns the number of
          email messages sent.
  
          :param EmailMessage email_messages: A list of Django's EmailMessage
              object instances.
          :rtype: int
          :returns: The number of EmailMessage objects that were successfully
              queued up. Note that these are not in a state where we can
              guarantee delivery just yet.
          """
          num_sent = 0
          for message in email_messages:
              # Hand this off to a celery task.
              SendEmailTask.delay(
                  message.from_email,
                  message.recipients(),
                  message.message().as_string().decode('utf8'),
              )
              num_sent += 1
          return num_sent
  
new_contents: """
  This module contains the SESBackend class, which is what you'll want to set in
  your settings.py::
  
      EMAIL_BACKEND = 'seacucumber.backend.SESBackend'
  """
  from django.core.mail.backends.base import BaseEmailBackend
  from seacucumber.tasks import SendEmailTask
  
  
  class SESBackend(BaseEmailBackend):
      """
      A Django Email backend that uses Amazon's Simple Email Service.
      """
      def send_messages(self, email_messages):
          """
          Sends one or more EmailMessage objects and returns the number of
          email messages sent.
  
          :param EmailMessage email_messages: A list of Django's EmailMessage
              object instances.
          :rtype: int
          :returns: The number of EmailMessage objects that were successfully
              queued up. Note that these are not in a state where we can
              guarantee delivery just yet.
          """
          num_sent = 0
          for message in email_messages:
              # Hand this off to a celery task.
              SendEmailTask.delay(
                  message.from_email,
                  message.recipients(),
                  message.message().as_string(),
              )
              num_sent += 1
          return num_sent
  
subject: Remove hardcoded utf-8 decoding of message. Seems to be related to version of boto in use (see https://github.com/hmarr/django-ses/commit/0ea65f3a172034d26978e027ffd3bdf0382fd2cc )