diff -r 7e03423def3c -r c156bf947e26 mercurial/patch.py
--- a/mercurial/patch.py	Thu Oct 08 01:17:48 2009 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/patch.py	Sun Oct 11 13:54:19 2009 -0500
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@
 
         subject = msg['Subject']
         user = msg['From']
+        if not subject and not user:
+            # Not an email, restore parsed headers if any
+            subject = '\n'.join(': '.join(h) for h in msg.items()) + '\n'
+
         gitsendmail = 'git-send-email' in msg.get('X-Mailer', '')
         # should try to parse msg['Date']
         date = None