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Expand Up @@ -730,3 +730,10 @@ retrieves and prints all messages::
M.close()
M.logout()

.. note::

A ``FETCH`` response may contain additional or unsolicited data
(see :rfc:`3501`, section 7.4.2),
so production code should inspect the whole response
rather than rely on ``data[0][1]``.

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