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@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ def close(self):
         assert not self._msgstack
         # Look for final set of defects
         if root.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart' \
-               and not root.is_multipart():
+               and not root.is_multipart() and not self._headersonly:
             defect = errors.MultipartInvariantViolationDefect()
             self.policy.handle_defect(root, defect)
         return root
 
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Date: 01 Jan 2001 00:01+0000
+From: arthur@example.example
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=foo
+
+--foo
+Content-Type: text/plain
+bar
+
+--foo
+Content-Type: text/html
+<html><body><p>baz</p></body></html>
+
+--foo--
@@ -3712,6 +3712,16 @@ def test_bytes_header_parser(self):
         self.assertIsInstance(msg.get_payload(), str)
         self.assertIsInstance(msg.get_payload(decode=True), bytes)
 
+    def test_header_parser_multipart_is_valid(self):
+        # Don't flag valid multipart emails as having defects
+        with openfile('msg_47.txt', encoding="utf-8") as fp:
+            msgdata = fp.read()
+
+        parser = email.parser.Parser(policy=email.policy.default)
+        parsed_msg = parser.parsestr(msgdata, headersonly=True)
+
+        self.assertEqual(parsed_msg.defects, [])
+
     def test_bytes_parser_does_not_close_file(self):
         with openfile('msg_02.txt', 'rb') as fp:
             email.parser.BytesParser().parse(fp)
 
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Do not report ``MultipartInvariantViolationDefect`` defect
+when the :class:`email.parser.Parser` class is used
+to parse emails with ``headersonly=True``.