% 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}\authoraddress{\email{barry@python.org}} \date{\today}\release{4.0}			% software release, not documentation\setreleaseinfo{}		% empty for final release\setshortversion{4.0}		% major.minor only for software \begin{document} \maketitle \begin{abstract}  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} % The ugly "%begin{latexonly}" pseudo-environment suppresses the table% of contents for HTML generation.%%begin{latexonly}\tableofcontents%end{latexonly} \section{Introduction}The \module{email} package provides classes and utilities to create,parse, generate, and modify email messages, conforming to all therelevant email and MIME related RFCs. This document describes version 4.0 of the \module{email} package, which isdistributed with Python 2.5 and is available as a standalone distutils-basedpackage for use with earlier Python versions.  \module{email} 4.0 is notcompatible with Python versions earlier than 2.3.  For more information aboutthe \module{email} package, including download links and mailing lists, see\ulink{Python's email SIG}{http://www.python.org/sigs/email-sig}. The documentation that follows was written for the Python project, soif 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      Python version a feature was added or deprecated.  See      the package history in section \ref{email-pkg-history} for details. \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}