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% This document is largely a stub used to allow the email package docs
% to be formatted separately from the rest of the Python
% documentation. This allows the documentation to be released
% independently of the rest of Python since the email package is being
% maintained for multiple Python versions, and on an accelerated
% schedule.
\documentclass{howto}
\title{email Package Reference}
\author{Barry Warsaw}
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\authoraddress{\email{barry@python.org}}
\date{\today}
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\release{2.5} % software release, not documentation
\setreleaseinfo{} % empty for final release
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\setshortversion{2.5} % major.minor only for software
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
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The \module{email} package provides classes and utilities to create,
parse, generate, and modify email messages, conforming to all the
relevant email and MIME related RFCs.
\end{abstract}
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%begin{latexonly}
\tableofcontents
%end{latexonly}
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\section{Introduction}
The \module{email} package provides classes and utilities to create,
parse, generate, and modify email messages, conforming to all the
relevant email and MIME related RFCs.
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This document describes version 3.0 of the \module{email} package, which is
distributed with Python 2.4 and is availble as a standalone distutils-based
package for use with Python 2.3. \module{email} 3.0 is not compatible with
Python versions earlier than 2.3. For more information about the
\module{email} package, including download links and mailing lists, see
\ulink{Python's email SIG}{http://www.python.org/sigs/email-sig}.
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The documentation that follows was written for the Python project, so
if you're reading this as part of the standalone \module{email}
package documentation, there are a few notes to be aware of:
\begin{itemize}
\item Deprecation and ``version added'' notes are relative to the
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Python version a feature was added or deprecated.
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\item If you're reading this documentation as part of the
standalone \module{email} package, some of the internal links to
other sections of the Python standard library may not resolve.
\end{itemize}
\input{email}
\end{document}