[Email-SIG] fixing the current email module

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 10, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> The question of "what should we do about broken mail" at this point
> has three components:
>
> (1) To what level do we (ie, the email module) promise to parse
>    conforming wire format into useful objects?
>
> (2) For nonconforming input, when is it OK to raise an error and
>    return to the calling client rather than handle it ourselves?
>
> (3) What is the API for accessing and/or mutating unparsed data, and
>    requesting a reparse?
>
> I don't think we should go any farther than that.

Agreed!

-Barry

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