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authorSaptak Sengupta <saptak013@gmail.com>2018-11-04 22:12:34 (GMT)
committerMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2018-11-04 22:12:34 (GMT)
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bpo-31887: Adds documentations for special multipart/signed handling (GH-4268)
This pull request adds some information about the special multipart/signed handling to clear about disabling header folding. https://bugs.python.org/issue31887
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@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ something that contains only ASCII characters, using the standard email RFC
Content Transfer Encoding techniques for encoding email messages for transport
over channels that are not "8 bit clean".
+To accomodate reproducible processing of SMIME-signed messages
+:class:`Generator` disables header folding for message parts of type
+``multipart/signed`` and all subparts.
+
.. class:: BytesGenerator(outfp, mangle_from_=None, maxheaderlen=None, *, \
policy=None)