1 Introduction

The email package provides classes and utilities to create, parse, generate, and modify email messages, conforming to all the relevant email and MIME related RFCs.

This document describes version 3.0 of the email package, which is distributed with Python 2.4 and is availble as a standalone distutils-based package for use with Python 2.3. email 3.0 is not compatible with Python versions earlier than 2.3. For more information about the email package, including download links and mailing lists, see Python's email SIG.

The documentation that follows was written for the Python project, so if you're reading this as part of the standalone email package documentation, there are a few notes to be aware of:

Deprecation and ``version added'' notes are relative to the Python version a feature was added or deprecated.
If you're reading this documentation as part of the standalone email package, some of the internal links to other sections of the Python standard library may not resolve.