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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 13:52:40 +1000
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Best way to filter parts of a email.message.Message
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On 03Sep2014 20:59, Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>- mime-parts can be nested, so I need to recursively handle them

Just to this. IIRC, the MIME part delimiter is supposed to be absolute. That 
is, it will not occur in the nested subparts, if any.

Of course that is no good to you working from outside via the email package, 
only if you're writing your own message dissector.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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