[Python-Dev] The first trustworthy <wink> GBayes results

Barry A. Warsaw barry@python.org
Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:00:32 -0400


>>>>> "AB" == Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> writes:

    >> Skip Montanaro wrote
    >> One thing worth noting before everybody starts using it to
    >> massage their mailboxes is that the email package contains a
    >> bug which causes it to occasionally delete whitespace when
    >> reformatting headers.

BTW, I fixed Greg's problem but not Skip's.  I'm still looking at this
one...

    AB> There's one other known problem - seriously misformatted MIME
    AB> (as seen in spam, and email from Microsoft Entourage) causes
    AB> the email package to barf out. I plan, at some point, to try
    AB> and make a "if it fails, just leave the body as one chunk of
    AB> text" mode, but it's a long long way down my list of
    AB> priorities.

I just checked this into cvs.
-Barry