I've just released version 2.5.6 of the standalone email package. This fixes some problems with Message.get_filename() and Message.get_content_charset() when headers encoded with RFC 2231 style parameters contain bogus or non-existent charsets. email-2.5.6 is compatible with Pythons going back to 2.1. I will soon be porting the patches forward into Python 2.4 and 2.5 to fix the email 3.0 package, which is only compatible with Python 2.3 and newer. You can download the email 2.5.6 tarball from the email-sig page: http://www.python.org/sigs/email-sig/ Cheers, -Barry