a python script which will parse an email message

[Skip Montanaro]

    chuck> Thus I home to get the body of the email messages as well using
    chuck> print >> output, msg['body'] Thus the None will hopefully contain
    chuck> Body Message Data.

Nope, that's not how you get the message body.  Read the docs for the email
package:

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-email.html

In particular, check out the get_payload method of the email.Message module.
The dictionary-style access is only for getting header values and returns
None for missing headers.

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