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Library
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+- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
+ continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space
+ and looks like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all
+ headers, this check is made for all headers in any serialized message
+ at serialization time. This provides protection against header
+ injection attacks.
+
- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
on an existing file.