mailbox multipart

[janwillem]

I am trying to analyze mailboxes using an iterator:
for key, message in mbox.iteritems():

When message is a simple mail message['date'] results the date.
When, however, it is a multipart message this results in None. How can
you full proof get the "date", "from" and "to" of of a multipart mail
using python?
Thanks janwillem

 

[janwillem]

I am trying to analyze mailboxes using an iterator:
   for key, message in mbox.iteritems():

When message is a simple mail message['date']  results the date.
When, however, it is a multipart message this results in None. How can
you full proof get the "date", "from" and "to" of of a multipart mail
using python?

Perhaps you should post your code.  There's no particular reason why you
should see this.  The mailbox iterator should return the outer multipart
container, which has the headers.

Thanks Tim,
There you have a point, after I find it is a multipart message I dive
into it recursively and so loose the outer header info. That was all.