In http://docs.python.org/lib/message-objects.html, getheader doc say:

 "Like getrawheader(name), but strip leading and trailing whitespace. 
Internal whitespace is not stripped. The optional default argument can 
be used to specify a different default to be returned when there is no 
header matching name."

However, getheader is not like getrawheader. getheader return the *last* 
header seen, using the message dict. getrawheader retruns the *first* 
header line seen, searching through the list of parsed header lines.

The text should also note that getheader is faster and the preferred way 
to get parsed headers.