From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 18:35:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #6051: refer to email examples for better way to construct email messages.
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#6051: refer to email examples for better way to construct email messages.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/email-examples.rst b/Doc/library/email-examples.rst
index f606f9bb3b52..c1b16da39471 100644
--- a/Doc/library/email-examples.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email-examples.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _email-examples:
+
 :mod:`email`: Examples
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
index 8facc9a6d811..4c1c61407777 100644
--- a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
@@ -380,3 +380,8 @@ example doesn't do any processing of the :rfc:`822` headers.  In particular, the
    server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, msg)
    server.quit()
 
+.. note::
+
+   In general, you will want to use the :mod:`email` package's features to
+   construct an email message, which you can then convert to a string and send
+   via :meth:`sendmail`; see :ref:`email-examples`.