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"Extend mailbox.UnixMailbox."

from mimelib.Generator import Generator
from Mailman.pythonlib import mailbox



class Mailbox(mailbox.PortableUnixMailbox):
    # msg should be an rfc822 message or a subclass.
    def AppendMessage(self, msg):
	# Check the last character of the file and write a newline if it isn't
	# a newline (but not at the beginning of an empty file).
        try:
            self.fp.seek(-1, 2)
        except IOError, e:
            # Assume the file is empty.  We can't portably test the error code
            # returned, since it differs per platform.
            pass
        else:
            if self.fp.read(1) <> '\n':
                self.fp.write('\n')
        # Seek to the last char of the mailbox
        self.fp.seek(1, 2)
        # Create a Generator instance to write the message to the file
        g = Generator(self.fp)
        g.write(msg)