Here are some notes on the parsing semantics:
- Most non-multipart type messages are parsed as a single
message object with a string payload. These objects will return
0 for is_multipart().
- One exception is for message/delivery-status type
messages. Because the body of such messages consist of
blocks of headers, Parser will create a non-multipart
object containing non-multipart subobjects for each header
block.
- Another exception is for message/* types (more
general than message/delivery-status). These are
typically message/rfc822 messages, represented as a
non-multipart object containing a singleton payload which is
another non-multipart Message instance.
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