def get_content_type(self):
        """Return the message's content type.

        The returned string is coerced to lower case of the form
        `maintype/subtype'.  If there was no Content-Type header in the
        message, the default type as given by get_default_type() will be
        returned.  Since according to RFC 2045, messages always have a default
        type this will always return a value.

        RFC 2045 defines a message's default type to be text/plain unless it
        appears inside a multipart/digest container, in which case it would be
        message/rfc822.
        """
        missing = object()
        value = self.get('content-type', missing)
        if value is missing:
            # This should have no parameters
            return self.get_default_type()
        ctype = _splitparam(value)[0].lower()
        # RFC 2045, section 5.2 says if its invalid, use text/plain
        if ctype.count('/') != 1:
            return 'text/plain'
        return ctype
Return the message's content type.

        The returned string is coerced to lower case of the form
        `maintype/subtype'.  If there was no Content-Type header in the
        message, the default type as given by get_default_type() will be
        returned.  Since according to RFC 2045, messages always have a default
        type this will always return a value.

        RFC 2045 defines a message's default type to be text/plain unless it
        appears inside a multipart/digest container, in which case it would be
        message/rfc822.