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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2015-05-17 18:24:33 (GMT)
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#20098: add mangle_from_ policy option.
This defaults to True in the compat32 policy for backward compatibility, but to False for all new policies. Patch by Milan Oberkirch, with a few tweaks.
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email
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+* A new policy option :attr:`~email.policy.Policy.mangle_from_` controls
+ whether or not lines that start with "From " in email bodies are prefixed with
+ a '>' character by generators. The default is ``True`` for
+ :attr:`~email.policy.compat32` and ``False`` for all other policies.
+ (Contributed by Milan Oberkirch in :issue:`20098`.)
+
* A new method :meth:`~email.message.Message.get_content_disposition` provides
easy access to a canonical value for the :mailheader:`Content-Disposition`
header (``None`` if there is no such header). (Contributed by Abhilash Raj