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For anyone that's ever tried, there's no 'one way' to parse email, it's one of those long standing protocols that was developed during a different period of time, is extremely resilient, can carry just about anything, works across different encodings, systems and will do just about anything you want it to. The very thing that makes it so versatile- is the very thing that makes it extremely difficult to parse- well. Transporting email is easy, most of the headers and other implementation details in the RFC define that pretty well. It's what IN the messages that's important (and hard)....