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+"""Email body parsing service for multipart MIME messages.
+
+Extracts text and HTML bodies from RFC822 email format, converts HTML to text
+when needed, and extracts email metadata (subject, from, to, date, message-id).
+"""
+
+import logging
+from email import message_from_bytes
+from email.policy import default
+from email.utils import parsedate_to_datetime
+
+import html2text
+
+# Configure logging
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def parse_email_body(raw_email_bytes: bytes) -> dict:
+    """
+    Extract text and HTML bodies from RFC822 email bytes.
+
+    Args:
+        raw_email_bytes: Raw email message bytes from IMAP FETCH
+
+    Returns:
+        Dictionary with keys:
+        - "text": Plain text body (None if not present)
+        - "html": HTML body (None if not present)
+        - "preferred": Best available body (text preferred, HTML converted if text missing)
+        - "subject": Email subject
+        - "from": Sender address
+        - "to": Recipient address(es)
+        - "date": Parsed datetime object (None if missing/invalid)
+        - "message_id": RFC822 Message-ID header
+
+    Note:
+        Uses modern EmailMessage API with email.policy.default for proper
+        encoding handling. Prefers plain text over HTML for RAG indexing.
+    """
+    logger.info("[EMAIL PARSER] Parsing email message")
+
+    try:
+        # Parse with modern EmailMessage API and default policy
+        msg = message_from_bytes(raw_email_bytes, policy=default)
+
+        result = {
+            "text": None,
+            "html": None,
+            "preferred": None,
+            "subject": "",
+            "from": "",
+            "to": "",
+            "date": None,
+            "message_id": "",
+        }
+
+        # Extract plain text body
+        text_part = msg.get_body(preferencelist=("plain",))
+        if text_part:
+            # Use get_content() for proper decoding (not get_payload())
+            result["text"] = text_part.get_content()
+            logger.debug("[EMAIL PARSER] Found plain text body")
+
+        # Extract HTML body
+        html_part = msg.get_body(preferencelist=("html",))
+        if html_part:
+            result["html"] = html_part.get_content()
+            logger.debug("[EMAIL PARSER] Found HTML body")
+
+        # Determine preferred version (text preferred for RAG)
+        if result["text"]:
+            result["preferred"] = result["text"]
+            logger.debug("[EMAIL PARSER] Using plain text as preferred")
+        elif result["html"]:
+            # Convert HTML to text using html2text
+            h = html2text.HTML2Text()
+            h.ignore_links = False  # Keep links for context
+            result["preferred"] = h.handle(result["html"])
+            logger.debug("[EMAIL PARSER] Converted HTML to text for preferred")
+        else:
+            logger.warning(
+                "[EMAIL PARSER] No body content found (neither text nor HTML)"
+            )
+
+        # Extract metadata
+        result["subject"] = msg.get("subject", "")
+        result["from"] = msg.get("from", "")
+        result["to"] = msg.get("to", "")
+        result["message_id"] = msg.get("message-id", "")
+
+        # Parse date header
+        date_header = msg.get("date")
+        if date_header:
+            try:
+                result["date"] = parsedate_to_datetime(date_header)
+            except Exception as date_error:
+                logger.warning(
+                    f"[EMAIL PARSER] Failed to parse date header '{date_header}': {date_error}"
+                )
+
+        logger.info(
+            f"[EMAIL PARSER] Successfully parsed email: subject='{result['subject']}', from='{result['from']}'"
+        )
+        return result
+
+    except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
+        logger.error(f"[EMAIL PARSER] Unicode decode error: {str(e)}")
+        # Return partial data with error indication
+        return {
+            "text": None,
+            "html": None,
+            "preferred": None,
+            "subject": "[Encoding Error]",
+            "from": "",
+            "to": "",
+            "date": None,
+            "message_id": "",
+            "error": str(e),
+        }
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.error(f"[EMAIL PARSER] Unexpected error: {type(e).__name__}: {str(e)}")
+        logger.exception("[EMAIL PARSER] Full traceback:")
+        raise