>Just to ramble a little longer, it's been argued that we should give >up on idempotency, but I'm not convinced. I think people want to see >an email message they throw into the system come out the other end as >closely as possible (well, /exactly/ for well-formed messages).
I, for one, would be disappointed if we lost idempotency. If people want a use-case, think of SpamBayes, where we read the message, do our best to analyse it, then insert a header or two. If this mangled messages, the email module would be nearly useless to SB. -- Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft http://www.object-craft.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list Email-SIG@python.org Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
