Adding an example of reproducing the rfc822.Message() parsing.

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+# Import the email modules we'll need
+from email.parser import Parser
+
+#  If the e-mail headers are in a file, uncomment this line:
+#headers = Parser().parse(messagefile)
+
+#  Or for parsing headers in a string, use:
+headers = Parser().parsestr('From: <user@example.com>\n'
+        'To: <someone_else@example.com>\n'
+        'Subject: Test message\n'
+        '\n'
+        'Body would go here\n')
+
+#  Now the header items can be accessed as a dictionary:
+print 'To: %s' % headers['to']
+print 'From: %s' % headers['from']
+print 'Subject: %s' % headers['subject']