I have an email message in a file (see attached). According to this page: https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.examples.html
something like this should construct an email message from the file: >>> from email.message import EmailMessage >>> msg = EmailMessage() >>> fp = open("/home/skip/tmp/79487694") >>> msg.set_content(fp.read()) However, my default encoding is utf-8 and the mail message is encoded using iso-8859-1, so it barfs trying to read the file. I know I can explicitly specify the encoding in an isolated case like this, but it seems like that shouldn't be necessary when reading a message from a stream or file. I tried opening the file with "rb", but got further downstream errors because I failed to set maintype and subtype. Again, these are elements of the message structure and should be decipherable by some bit of code which wants to construct the message object. I'm clearly missing something. Thx, Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list