Where the body is depends on how the message is composed. Can you post a small but complete example of a message you are having trouble parsing?

For example, here are relevant bits of a message generated by Outlook, with an attachment:

From - Thu Feb 28 17:29:24 2013
From: xxx@yyy.com
To: aaa@bbb.com
Subject: test
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:28:38 +0000
Message-ID: <E24D1C1D2311AC43AA14ACFD05622B7694917B@CHEXCHMBX01.x.com>
Accept-Language: en-NZ, en-US
Content-Language: en-US
X-MS-Has-Attach: yes
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
	boundary="_004_E24D1C1D2311AC43AA14ACFD05622B7694917BCHEXCHMBX01cloudh_"
MIME-Version: 1.0

--_004_E24D1C1D2311AC43AA14ACFD05622B7694917BCHEXCHMBX01cloudh_
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
	boundary="_000_E24D1C1D2311AC43AA14ACFD05622B7694917BCHEXCHMBX01cloudh_"

--_000_E24D1C1D2311AC43AA14ACFD05622B7694917BCHEXCHMBX01cloudh_
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

This is the body of the message.

--_000_E24D1C1D2311AC43AA14ACFD05622B7694917BCHEXCHMBX01cloudh_
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-micr=
osoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" =
xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns=3D"http:=
//www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii"=
>
<meta name=3D"Generator" content=3D"Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)">
<style></style>
</head>
<body lang=3D"EN-NZ" link=3D"blue" vlink=3D"purple">



This is the body of the message.<o:p></o:p>



</body>
</html>

--_000_E24D1C1D2311AC43AA14ACFD05622B7694917BCHEXCHMBX01cloudh_--

--_004_E24D1C1D2311AC43AA14ACFD05622B7694917BCHEXCHMBX01cloudh_
Content-Type: text/plain; name="test.txt"
Content-Description: test.txt
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.txt"; size=40;
	creation-date="Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:28:39 GMT";
	modification-date="Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:28:52 GMT"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRleHQgZmlsZSwgYXMgYW4gYXR0YWNobWVudC4NCg==

--_004_E24D1C1D2311AC43AA14ACFD05622B7694917BCHEXCHMBX01cloudh_--

In this case, the first part of the multipart message has the body of the message twice: first as plain text and then as an HTML formatted message.

But your messages may be quite different from this.

In reply to Re^3: receiving email message with an attachment. by ig
in thread receiving email message with an attachment. by tenny1204

Title:
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