Quoting Barry's message msg268430 from issue 10839:

    On Jun 13, 2016, at 06:38 AM, Berker Peksag wrote:

    >I don't know if it's a good idea or API but can we add a 'policy' keyword
    >argument to email.mime.base.MIMEBase? Right now, this is the only way to
    >change the default policy without using high level functions like
    >email.message_from_string():
    >
    >    m = MIMEMultipart()
    >    m.policy = email.policy.default

    I think we just need to plumb a `policy` argument through to the ultimate base
    class, email.message.Message