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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/smtplib.rst5
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diff --git a/Doc/library/email-examples.rst b/Doc/library/email-examples.rst
index f606f9b..c1b16da 100644
--- a/Doc/library/email-examples.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email-examples.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _email-examples:
+
:mod:`email`: Examples
----------------------
diff --git a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
index 8facc9a..4c1c614 100644
--- a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
@@ -380,3 +380,8 @@ example doesn't do any processing of the :rfc:`822` headers. In particular, the
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, msg)
server.quit()
+.. note::
+
+ In general, you will want to use the :mod:`email` package's features to
+ construct an email message, which you can then convert to a string and send
+ via :meth:`sendmail`; see :ref:`email-examples`.