email-4.0.2.tar.gz

email -- a mail and MIME handling package Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Python Software Foundation Introduction The email package is a library for managing email messages, including MIME and other RFC 2822-based message documents. It is intended to replace most of the functionality in several older standard modules such as rfc822, mimetools, multifile, mimify, and MIMEWriter, and other non-standard packages such as mimecntl. It is compliant with most of the email related RFCs such as 2045-2047 (the MIME RFCs) and 2231. This version is identical to the package available in Python 2.5. It is being made available as a standalone package for use in older Python releases. A minimum of Python 2.3 is required. Because the email package is part of Python, it is covered by the PSF license for Python, as described in the LICENSE.txt file. Testing To test the email package, run the standard unit test suite from the directory that you unpacked the source in (i.e. the directory containing the setup.py file and this README file): % python testall.py You should see a couple of lines of dots followed by the number of tests ran and the time the tests took. The test should end with an "OK". If so, you're good to go. Note that the exact number of tests depends on such things as whether you have the Japanese codecs installed or not. Documentation and Examples The documentation, including the major changes in the package over time, can be found in the docs directory: docs/index.html If you're looking for examples, you might want to check out some of the tests. There are a few examples in the documentation as well. Installing To install simply execute the following at your shell prompt: % python setup.py install Acknowledgements Here is a list of folks who have contributed code, examples, suggestions, bug reports, feedback, and encouragement: Anthony Baxter Martin Bless Oleg Broytmann Matthew Dixon Cowles Jeff Dairiki Quinn Dunkan Ben Gertzfield David Given Phil Hunt Tokio Kikuchi Sheila King Martin Koch Jason Mastaler Andrew McNamara Skip Montanaro Guido van Rossum Barry Warsaw Thomas Wouters Apologies to anybody I've left out (let me know!). Contact Information The email-sig is the mailing list and community of users and developers of the package and related Python email technologies. For more information: http://www.python.org/sigs/email-sig  Local Variables: mode: indented-text indent-tabs-mode: nil End: