[issue34104] email.message.get_payload should enforce correct encoding

R. David Murray added the comment: It looks like the virus checkers are not doing robust decoding that the email RFCs recommend, and that thunderbird is. This is obviously a bug in the virus scanners. By default, like thunderbird, the email library does its best to decode attachments. If

[issue34104] email.message.get_payload should enforce correct encoding

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[issue34104] email.message.get_payload should enforce correct encoding

New submission from Serge Droz : The issue is really this: https://noxxi.de/research/mime-5-easy-steps-to-bypass-av.html get_payload should with decode=Treu should check the validity of the syntax and throw an error if it is not. This would happen if the underlying call to base64.decode