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+This module is part of the legacy (``Compat32``) email API. Its functionality
+is partially replaced by the :mod:`~email.contentmanager` in the new API, but
+in certain applications these classes may still be useful, even in non-legacy
+code.
+
Ordinarily, you get a message object structure by passing a file or some text to
a parser, which parses the text and returns the root message object. However
you can also build a complete message structure from scratch, or even individual