[New-bugs-announce] [issue36180] mboxMessage.get_payload throws TypeError on malformed content type

[Enrico Zini]

New submission from Enrico Zini <enrico at enricozini.org>:

This simple code:

```
import mailbox

mbox = mailbox.mbox("broken.mbox")
for msg in mbox:
    msg.get_payload()
```

Fails rather unexpectedly:

```
$ python3 broken.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "broken.py", line 5, in <module>
    msg.get_payload()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/email/message.py", line 267, in get_payload
    payload = bpayload.decode(self.get_param('charset', 'ascii'), 'replace')
TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be str, not tuple
```

(I'm attaching a zip with code and mailbox)

I would have expected either that the part past text/plain is ignored if it doesn't make sense, or that content-type is completely ignored.

I have to process a large mailbox archive, and this is currently how I had to work around this issue, and it's causing me to have to skip email content which would otherwise be reasonably accessible:

https://salsa.debian.org/nm-team/echelon/commit/617ce935a31f6256257ffb24e11a5666306406c3

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files: broken.zip
messages: 337091
nosy: enrico
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: mboxMessage.get_payload throws TypeError on malformed content type
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file48184/broken.zip

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