[Email-SIG] Some parsing/generation issues of email in Python 3

[R. David Murray]

On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:14:16 -0400, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Jun 08, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> 
> >All these issues were harvested in less than halve an hour. What really 
> >troubles me is the quietness around here in the light of this experience. 
> >Doesn't people use Python (3) yet/anymore for these kind of tasks? Does 
> >somebody care? Am I missing something?
> 
> Mailman 3 uses Python 3 so we use all the parsing stuff in Python 3.4 and 3.5,
> although we don't use the SMTP policy.  We haven't yet noticed any problems
> with the compat32 (default) policy, probably because it's more compatible with
> the way Python 2 parses things.

Right, in my previous note I was talking about people not using the
new policies.  The compat32 code is probably being used by a lot of
people and seems to be working well, including having fixed some header
parsing and folding bugs relative to the python2 version of the code.

--David