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Asked: 2026-06-13T13:10:45+00:00

When an email is being sent to a computer, the DATA section of the

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When an email is being sent to a computer, the DATA section of the message always ends with the character sequence <CRLF>.<CRLF> (see RFC 2821 and a related post). When decoding an email message in python, there is a convenient function to get the payload of the message via Message.get_payload() (package email). But this ‘payload’ still contains the <CRLF>.<CRLF> sequence, which is suppressed when looking at emails with e.g. gmail.

My question: Is there a convenient function in python to get the REAL message, in which the additional characters are cut away? Or do I need to do some hack myself?

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  1. Editorial Team

    How about just doing this (assuming it isn’t a multipart message):

    Message.get_payload().rsplit('\r\n', 2)[0]

    In an example:

    >>> s = 'Hi,\r\n\r\nThis is my email.\r\n.\r\n'
>>> print s.rsplit('\r\n', 2)[0]
Hi,

This is my email.
>>>

    If it is only the <CRLF>‘s you’re worried about, then it doesn’t get much cleaner than this. You might wrap it in a function to make it self-documenting, but to me this certainly beats including a custom library.

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