Deprecated since release 2.3.
The email package should be used in
preference to the mimetools module. This
module is present only to maintain backward
compatibility.
This module defines a subclass of the
rfc822module's
Message class and a number of utility functions that are
useful for the manipulation for MIME multipart or encoded message.
Return a new instance of the Message class. This is a
subclass of the rfc822.Message class, with some additional
methods (see below). The seekable argument has the same meaning
as for rfc822.Message.
Read data encoded using the allowed MIME encoding from open file
object input and write the decoded data to open file object
output. Valid values for encoding include
'base64', 'quoted-printable' and 'uuencode'.
Read data from open file object input and write it encoded using
the allowed MIME encoding to open file object output.
Valid values for encoding are the same as for decode().
