from email.FeedParser import FeedParser p = FeedParser() p.feed("""Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0012394164==" MIME-Version: 1.0 --===============0012394164== Content-Type: image/file1.jpg MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 YXNkZg== --===============0012394164==--""") m = p.close() print m