I have some spam mails, which have a utf-16 byte order mark
(BOM) U+FEFF as the first character in one of their "Received:"
lines, before the "From", etc. header lines. When I do 

g_mime_object_get_header (GMIME_OBJECT(message),"From")

I simply get the string "(null)", but not the actual "From" field.  I
suspect that gmime chokes on parsing the BOM, and considers the
remainder of the message to be part of the body.  Is this the expected
behavior or is this a bug in gmime? 

Maybe gmime could simply ignore BOMs independent of whether they appear
in the header or body of a message?

Attached find a sample mail and a minimal program which demonstrates the problem. 
The program tries to read the "received" and the "from" header from the supplied email. However, it only succeeds in obtaining the "Received" header (which is before the BOM) and not the "From" header which is after. Expected behaviour would be that both headers are successfully parsed.