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Add security warning to `mailbox` docs
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Apply RDM's suggestion with slight changes
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Expand Up @@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ accessing and manipulating on-disk mailboxes and the messages they contain.
:class:`~email.message.Message` class with format-specific state and behavior.
Supported mailbox formats are Maildir, mbox, MH, Babyl, and MMDF.

.. warning::

The :mod:`!mailbox` module is designed for use in trusted environments,
where data from untrusted sources is never passed to the module's API
calls and only trusted users have access to the filesystems accessible
to the module.

.. seealso::

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