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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-06-12 18:52:31 (GMT) |
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committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-06-12 18:52:31 (GMT) |
commit | 83e9f4cd77f0cf4e47d505643c00b0dc3debace3 (patch) | |
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Remove last traces of mimetools.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/email.rst b/Doc/library/email.rst index 72fb31d..a8cb8d7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.rst @@ -10,15 +10,12 @@ The :mod:`email` package is a library for managing email messages, including -MIME and other :rfc:`2822`\ -based message documents. It subsumes most of the -functionality in several older standard modules such as :mod:`rfc822`, -:mod:`mimetools`, :mod:`multifile`, and other non-standard packages such as -:mod:`mimecntl`. It is specifically *not* designed to do any sending of email -messages to SMTP (:rfc:`2821`), NNTP, or other servers; those are functions of -modules such as :mod:`smtplib` and :mod:`nntplib`. The :mod:`email` package -attempts to be as RFC-compliant as possible, supporting in addition to -:rfc:`2822`, such MIME-related RFCs as :rfc:`2045`, :rfc:`2046`, :rfc:`2047`, -and :rfc:`2231`. +MIME and other :rfc:`2822`\ -based message documents. It is specifically *not* +designed to do any sending of email messages to SMTP (:rfc:`2821`), NNTP, or +other servers; those are functions of modules such as :mod:`smtplib` and +:mod:`nntplib`. The :mod:`email` package attempts to be as RFC-compliant as +possible, supporting in addition to :rfc:`2822`, such MIME-related RFCs as +:rfc:`2045`, :rfc:`2046`, :rfc:`2047`, and :rfc:`2231`. The primary distinguishing feature of the :mod:`email` package is that it splits the parsing and generating of email messages from the internal *object model* |