[issue5871] email.header.Header allow to embed raw newlines into a message

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The example, which combines part of the subject line with another header line, strikes me as bizarre, confusing, and unnecessary. Can you provide some rationale, motivation, or use case? Without that, I would tend to think this should be closed. -- n

[issue5871] email.header.Header allow to embed raw newlines into a message

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[issue5871] email.header.Header allow to embed raw newlines into a message

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[issue5871] email.header.Header allow to embed raw newlines into a message

New submission from Jakub Wilk : >>> from email.mime.text import MIMEText >>> from email.header import Header >>> msg = MIMEText('dummy') >>> h = Header('dummy\nX-Injected-Header: yes') >>> msg['Subject'] = h >>> print msg.as_string() Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0