[Email-SIG] fixing the current email module

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 8, 2009, at 3:33 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> Not sure that non-text MIME parts need to support being returned as  
> strings.

I don't think they do.  But e.g. an image/* MIME part should support  
returning the decoded image data.

> So there must be APIs that support obtaining text and (same or  
> different) APIs that support obtaining bytes for a given MIME part.   
> However, I think it is proper that a MIME part that is not flagged  
> as text/* might produce an error if asked for as text.

+1

-Barry

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