From: Saptak Sengupta Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 22:12:34 +0000 (+0530) Subject: bpo-31887: Adds documentations for special multipart/signed handling (GH-4268) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~583 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=622935d9a69d12e125e470ce9a9ff3cad9e8e296;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git 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 --- diff --git a/Doc/library/email.generator.rst b/Doc/library/email.generator.rst index 2575a5130070..fc535a3e4399 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.generator.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.generator.rst @@ -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)