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+#  GNU Mailutils -- a suite of utilities for electronic mail
+#  Copyright (C) 2009-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+#  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+#  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+#  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+#  version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+#  Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General
+#  Public License along with this library.  If not, see 
+#  <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+from mailutils.c_api import envelope
+from mailutils.error import EnvelopeError
+
+MU_ENVELOPE_DATE_FORMAT = "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"
+MU_ENVELOPE_DATE_LENGTH = 24
+
+class Envelope:
+    def __init__ (self, env):
+        self.env = env
+
+    def __del__ (self):
+        del self.env
+
+    def get_sender (self):
+        """Get the address that this message was reportedly received from."""
+        status, sender = envelope.get_sender (self.env)
+        if status:
+            raise EnvelopeError (status)
+        return sender
+
+    def get_date (self):
+        """Get the date that the message was delivered to the mailbox, in
+        something close to ANSI ctime() format: Mon Jul 05 13:08:27 1999."""
+        status, date = envelope.get_date (self.env)
+        if status:
+            raise EnvelopeError (status)
+        return date