[Email-SIG] fixing the current email module

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 9, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> That certainly works, but it isn't very helpful... that forces the  
> client application to reproduce the logic to parse the header value  
> and decode the parts that can be decoded successfully, and that is  
> exactly the sort of thing Stephen was complaining about when he  
> thought I was suggesting that to be a requirement (but he was  
> confused about what I was suggesting).

There are/will be utilities in the email package to make this easy.  I  
don't think there's a ton of benefit to be had by supporting transport- 
decoded directly in the Message or Header API.

-Barry

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