12.2.11 Package History

Version 1 of the email package was bundled with Python releases up to Python 2.2.1. Version 2 was developed for the Python 2.3 release, and backported to Python 2.2.2. It was also available as a separate distutils-based package, and is compatible back to Python 2.1.

email version 3.0 was released with Python 2.4 and as a separate distutils-based package. It is compatible back to Python 2.3.

Here are the differences between email version 3 and version 2:

Here are the differences between email version 2 and version 1:

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