[Email-SIG] fixing the current email module

[Oleg Broytman]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:05:35PM -0500, Matthew Dixon Cowles wrote:
> If the email package gives up
> because a message is malformed, I don't know what exactly it's for.
> It's certainly not for parsing what arrives in my mailbox.

   Then it is *your* task to enhance the code. A flow of patches with tests
would be the best contribution.

> > Then the calling program must catch all exceptions and process they
> > in a reasonable (for this particular application) way.
> 
> Then the module's documentation would need to include a list of all
> exceptions that it might raise and the times that it might raise
> them.

   You are also welcome to provide patches for documentation.

Oleg.
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