Re: fixing the current email module

[Stephen J. Turnbull]
> Yes, that Unicode error is one that took years for Mailman to work
> around.  If we are going to be converting different objects at
> different times, I'm sure we'll get to see it again in the future.

In my opinion, the email module should never raise an exception as a
result of working with a malformed message. Though it should
certainly make the information that a message was malformed available
for the calling program to check.

That is, I think that it's extremely unlikely that the calling
program wants to blow up as a result of a malformed message. Very
probably, it wants to make what sense of the message that it can. The
number of ways in which a message can be malformed is pretty large
and just how (and when, as has been mentioned) any particular error
will cause problems for the module is really a matter that's internal
to the module. The module's user shouldn't have to say, "Over here I
have to trap UnicodeErrors and over there I have to trap IndexErrors".

Regards,
Matt