[ python-Bugs-895510 ] email library Parser can't parse some messages

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Bugs item #895510, was opened at 2004-02-12 08:42
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jan Ondrej (ondrejj)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: email library Parser can't parse some messages

Initial Comment:
The email library can't decode some emails with one bad
part. This part is ignored (not decoded) by other
software. I am developing an antivir software and I
need to decode these messages.

There is the code, which raises an error:
  if line[0] in ' \t':
      if not lastheader:
        print "Errors.HeaderParseError"
            raise Errors.HeaderParseError(
                      'Continuation line seen before
first header')

There is an example attached. It contains a space
before "Content-Type:" in first part. This part is
buggy, but next part can contain important data.

If it is not a bug but an RFC implementation, please
tell me, how I can decode these emails.

I think, this problem is in all versions of this
library (also in CVS), because this code is not changed
in it.


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