mailbox should support options for calling email parser

[bpoaugust]

BPO	45910
Nosy	@warsaw, @bitdancer

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[bpoaugust]

It looks like mailbox uses email.message_from_... for parsing emails.

However it does not allow for passing any options to the parser.

In particular the policy cannot be provided.

It would be useful if there was a way to pass such options.