diff --git a/Lib/mimify.py b/Lib/mimify.py
index b6f61439d75..1c15983d1e2 100755
--- a/Lib/mimify.py
+++ b/Lib/mimify.py
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ QUOTE = '> '            # string replies are quoted with
 
 import re
 
+import warnings
+warnings.warn("the mimify module is deprecated; use the email package instead",
+                DeprecationWarning, 2)
+
 __all__ = ["mimify","unmimify","mime_encode_header","mime_decode_header"]
 
 qp = re.compile('^content-transfer-encoding:\\s*quoted-printable', re.I)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test___all__.py b/Lib/test/test___all__.py
index 071ed04251f..26ed012272b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test___all__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test___all__.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", ".*popen2 module is deprecated.*",
                         DeprecationWarning)
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "the MimeWriter module is deprecated.*",
                         DeprecationWarning)
+warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "the mimify module is deprecated.*",
+                        DeprecationWarning)
 
 class AllTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sundry.py b/Lib/test/test_sundry.py
index 5711fb216eb..533aedc5df6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sundry.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sundry.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import warnings
 with guard_warnings_filter():
     warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', r".*posixfile",
                             DeprecationWarning)
+    warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', r".*mimify", DeprecationWarning)
 
     from test.test_support import verbose
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4ca7fa8da2a..8f4bcebb8c4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
+
 - MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
 
 - tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now