Sorry, my message wasn't clear. The current default needs to remain the same. What needs to be added is email.policy.Policy.mange_from, which should be True in the compat32 policy and False in EmailPolicy. Then it needs to be hooked up the Generator, so that an explicit specificaion in the __init__ overrides the policy, but specifying one of EmailPolicy dervived policies will override the default value of the __init__ argument if the argument is not speicifed explicitly in the Generator constructor call. (Backward compatibility is a pain.)