Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 8, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > Bill Janssen writes: > > > >> I should point out that I also store lots of metadata in the > >> registered > >> MIME format text/rfc822-headers (defined in RFC 1892), data that > >> doesn't > >> necessarily conform to the specific set of headers mentioned in > >> RFC822. > >> It would be nice if the header support in the email package would > >> also > >> support reading and writing that format. > > > > I'm not sure what you're saying here. RFC 822 is inclusive. More or > > less, if it looks like a header, it is a header, and we need to parse > > it at least into field name and field body, whether RFC 822 defines > > more specific syntax for it or not. > > The way I read it was that certain RFC 5322 requirements should be > relaxed in certain cases, e.g. line length limits. If you're mutating > the model, you wouldn't necessarily (ever? always?) throw an exception > for long lines.
Yes, that's a good build. Bill _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list [email protected] Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
