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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:

> I wish to generate some test data for a program that deals with emails. I 
> need something that can produce multi-part emails, including "broken" 
> emails that violate email standards, especially when it comes to Unicode.

I would start producing legal messages (e.g. with the "email"
package) and then put in common standard violations.

I am using the XEmacs "vm" email package and it has
difficulties with the quoting of non-ascii characters
in header lines (it performes the quoting based on non-ascii
character sequences rather than on words, as it should).


Maybe, there is an email message catalog around for the test
of email servers/clients. I would check for this in corresponding
open source projects.