diff --git a/Doc/library/mimetools.rst b/Doc/library/mimetools.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 7813867..0000000
--- a/Doc/library/mimetools.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,131 +0,0 @@
-
-:mod:`mimetools` --- Tools for parsing MIME messages
-====================================================
-
-.. module:: mimetools
-   :synopsis: Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies.
-   :deprecated:
-
-
-.. deprecated:: 2.3
-   The :mod:`email` package should be used in preference to the :mod:`mimetools`
-   module.  This module is present only to maintain backward compatibility.
-
-.. index:: module: rfc822
-
-This module defines a subclass of the :mod:`rfc822` module's :class:`Message`
-class and a number of utility functions that are useful for the manipulation for
-MIME multipart or encoded message.
-
-It defines the following items:
-
-
-.. class:: Message(fp[, seekable])
-
-   Return a new instance of the :class:`Message` class.  This is a subclass of the
-   :class:`rfc822.Message` class, with some additional methods (see below).  The
-   *seekable* argument has the same meaning as for :class:`rfc822.Message`.
-
-
-.. function:: choose_boundary()
-
-   Return a unique string that has a high likelihood of being usable as a part
-   boundary.  The string has the form ``'hostipaddr.uid.pid.timestamp.random'``.
-
-
-.. function:: decode(input, output, encoding)
-
-   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'``, ``'uuencode'``,
-   ``'x-uuencode'``, ``'uue'``, ``'x-uue'``, ``'7bit'``, and  ``'8bit'``.  Decoding
-   messages encoded in ``'7bit'`` or ``'8bit'`` has no effect.  The input is simply
-   copied to the output.
-
-
-.. function:: encode(input, output, encoding)
-
-   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 :meth:`decode`.
-
-
-.. function:: copyliteral(input, output)
-
-   Read lines from open file *input* until EOF and write them to open file
-   *output*.
-
-
-.. function:: copybinary(input, output)
-
-   Read blocks until EOF from open file *input* and write them to open file
-   *output*.  The block size is currently fixed at 8192.
-
-
-.. seealso::
-
-   Module :mod:`email`
-      Comprehensive email handling package; supersedes the :mod:`mimetools` module.
-
-   Module :mod:`rfc822`
-      Provides the base class for :class:`mimetools.Message`.
-
-   Module :mod:`multifile`
-      Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as MIME data.
-
-   http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/mail/mime-faq/.html
-      The MIME Frequently Asked Questions document.  For an overview of MIME, see the
-      answer to question 1.1 in Part 1 of this document.
-
-
-.. _mimetools-message-objects:
-
-Additional Methods of Message Objects
--------------------------------------
-
-The :class:`Message` class defines the following methods in addition to the
-:class:`rfc822.Message` methods:
-
-
-.. method:: Message.getplist()
-
-   Return the parameter list of the :mailheader:`Content-Type` header. This is a
-   list of strings.  For parameters of the form ``key=value``, *key* is converted
-   to lower case but *value* is not.  For example, if the message contains the
-   header ``Content-type: text/html; spam=1; Spam=2; Spam`` then :meth:`getplist`
-   will return the Python list ``['spam=1', 'spam=2', 'Spam']``.
-
-
-.. method:: Message.getparam(name)
-
-   Return the *value* of the first parameter (as returned by :meth:`getplist`) of
-   the form ``name=value`` for the given *name*.  If *value* is surrounded by
-   quotes of the form '``<``...\ ``>``' or '``"``...\ ``"``', these are removed.
-
-
-.. method:: Message.getencoding()
-
-   Return the encoding specified in the :mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Encoding`
-   message header.  If no such header exists, return ``'7bit'``.  The encoding is
-   converted to lower case.
-
-
-.. method:: Message.gettype()
-
-   Return the message type (of the form ``type/subtype``) as specified in the
-   :mailheader:`Content-Type` header.  If no such header exists, return
-   ``'text/plain'``.  The type is converted to lower case.
-
-
-.. method:: Message.getmaintype()
-
-   Return the main type as specified in the :mailheader:`Content-Type` header.  If
-   no such header exists, return ``'text'``.  The main type is converted to lower
-   case.
-
-
-.. method:: Message.getsubtype()
-
-   Return the subtype as specified in the :mailheader:`Content-Type` header.  If no
-   such header exists, return ``'plain'``.  The subtype is converted to lower case.
-
diff --git a/Doc/library/netdata.rst b/Doc/library/netdata.rst
index 076c214..ce35bfa 100644
--- a/Doc/library/netdata.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/netdata.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
    json.rst
    mailcap.rst
    mailbox.rst
-   mimetools.rst
    mimetypes.rst
    rfc822.rst
    base64.rst
diff --git a/Lib/mimetools.py b/Lib/mimetools.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ea5e1b..0000000
--- a/Lib/mimetools.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,240 +0,0 @@
-"""Various tools used by MIME-reading or MIME-writing programs."""
-
-
-import os
-import rfc822
-import tempfile
-
-__all__ = ["Message","choose_boundary","encode","decode","copyliteral",
-           "copybinary"]
-
-class Message(rfc822.Message):
-    """A derived class of rfc822.Message that knows about MIME headers and
-    contains some hooks for decoding encoded and multipart messages."""
-
-    def __init__(self, fp, seekable = 1):
-        rfc822.Message.__init__(self, fp, seekable)
-        self.encodingheader = \
-                self.getheader('content-transfer-encoding')
-        self.typeheader = \
-                self.getheader('content-type')
-        self.parsetype()
-        self.parseplist()
-
-    def parsetype(self):
-        str = self.typeheader
-        if str is None:
-            str = 'text/plain'
-        if ';' in str:
-            i = str.index(';')
-            self.plisttext = str[i:]
-            str = str[:i]
-        else:
-            self.plisttext = ''
-        fields = str.split('/')
-        for i in range(len(fields)):
-            fields[i] = fields[i].strip().lower()
-        self.type = '/'.join(fields)
-        self.maintype = fields[0]
-        self.subtype = '/'.join(fields[1:])
-
-    def parseplist(self):
-        str = self.plisttext
-        self.plist = []
-        while str[:1] == ';':
-            str = str[1:]
-            if ';' in str:
-                # XXX Should parse quotes!
-                end = str.index(';')
-            else:
-                end = len(str)
-            f = str[:end]
-            if '=' in f:
-                i = f.index('=')
-                f = f[:i].strip().lower() + \
-                        '=' + f[i+1:].strip()
-            self.plist.append(f.strip())
-            str = str[end:]
-
-    def getplist(self):
-        return self.plist
-
-    def getparam(self, name):
-        name = name.lower() + '='
-        n = len(name)
-        for p in self.plist:
-            if p[:n] == name:
-                return rfc822.unquote(p[n:])
-        return None
-
-    def getparamnames(self):
-        result = []
-        for p in self.plist:
-            i = p.find('=')
-            if i >= 0:
-                result.append(p[:i].lower())
-        return result
-
-    def getencoding(self):
-        if self.encodingheader is None:
-            return '7bit'
-        return self.encodingheader.lower()
-
-    def gettype(self):
-        return self.type
-
-    def getmaintype(self):
-        return self.maintype
-
-    def getsubtype(self):
-        return self.subtype
-
-
-
-
-# Utility functions
-# -----------------
-
-try:
-    import _thread
-except ImportError:
-    import _dummy_thread as _thread
-_counter_lock = _thread.allocate_lock()
-del _thread
-
-_counter = 0
-def _get_next_counter():
-    global _counter
-    _counter_lock.acquire()
-    _counter += 1
-    result = _counter
-    _counter_lock.release()
-    return result
-
-_prefix = None
-
-def choose_boundary():
-    """Return a string usable as a multipart boundary.
-
-    The string chosen is unique within a single program run, and
-    incorporates the user id (if available), process id (if available),
-    and current time.  So it's very unlikely the returned string appears
-    in message text, but there's no guarantee.
-
-    The boundary contains dots so you have to quote it in the header."""
-
-    global _prefix
-    import time
-    if _prefix is None:
-        import socket
-        try:
-            hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
-        except socket.gaierror:
-            hostid = '127.0.0.1'
-        try:
-            uid = repr(os.getuid())
-        except AttributeError:
-            uid = '1'
-        try:
-            pid = repr(os.getpid())
-        except AttributeError:
-            pid = '1'
-        _prefix = hostid + '.' + uid + '.' + pid
-    return "%s.%.3f.%d" % (_prefix, time.time(), _get_next_counter())
-
-
-# Subroutines for decoding some common content-transfer-types
-# Input and output must be files opened in binary mode
-
-def decode(input, output, encoding):
-    """Decode common content-transfer-encodings (base64, quopri, uuencode)."""
-    if encoding == 'base64':
-        import base64
-        return base64.decode(input, output)
-    if encoding == 'quoted-printable':
-        import quopri
-        return quopri.decode(input, output)
-    if encoding in ('uuencode', 'x-uuencode', 'uue', 'x-uue'):
-        import uu
-        return uu.decode(input, output)
-    if encoding in ('7bit', '8bit'):
-        return output.write(input.read())
-    if encoding in decodetab:
-        pipethrough(input, decodetab[encoding], output)
-    else:
-        raise ValueError('unknown Content-Transfer-Encoding: %s' % encoding)
-
-def encode(input, output, encoding):
-    """Encode common content-transfer-encodings (base64, quopri, uuencode)."""
-    if encoding == 'base64':
-        import base64
-        return base64.encode(input, output)
-    if encoding == 'quoted-printable':
-        import quopri
-        return quopri.encode(input, output, 0)
-    if encoding in ('uuencode', 'x-uuencode', 'uue', 'x-uue'):
-        import uu
-        return uu.encode(input, output)
-    if encoding in ('7bit', '8bit'):
-        return output.write(input.read())
-    if encoding in encodetab:
-        pipethrough(input, encodetab[encoding], output)
-    else:
-        raise ValueError('unknown Content-Transfer-Encoding: %s' % encoding)
-
-# The following is no longer used for standard encodings
-
-# XXX This requires that uudecode and mmencode are in $PATH
-
-uudecode_pipe = '''(
-TEMP=/tmp/@uu.$$
-sed "s%^begin [0-7][0-7]* .*%begin 600 $TEMP%" | uudecode
-cat $TEMP
-rm $TEMP
-)'''
-
-decodetab = {
-        'uuencode':             uudecode_pipe,
-        'x-uuencode':           uudecode_pipe,
-        'uue':                  uudecode_pipe,
-        'x-uue':                uudecode_pipe,
-        'quoted-printable':     'mmencode -u -q',
-        'base64':               'mmencode -u -b',
-}
-
-encodetab = {
-        'x-uuencode':           'uuencode tempfile',
-        'uuencode':             'uuencode tempfile',
-        'x-uue':                'uuencode tempfile',
-        'uue':                  'uuencode tempfile',
-        'quoted-printable':     'mmencode -q',
-        'base64':               'mmencode -b',
-}
-
-def pipeto(input, command):
-    pipe = os.popen(command, 'w')
-    copyliteral(input, pipe)
-    pipe.close()
-
-def pipethrough(input, command, output):
-    (fd, tempname) = tempfile.mkstemp()
-    temp = os.fdopen(fd, 'w')
-    copyliteral(input, temp)
-    temp.close()
-    pipe = os.popen(command + ' <' + tempname, 'r')
-    copybinary(pipe, output)
-    pipe.close()
-    os.unlink(tempname)
-
-def copyliteral(input, output):
-    while 1:
-        line = input.readline()
-        if not line: break
-        output.write(line)
-
-def copybinary(input, output):
-    BUFSIZE = 8192
-    while 1:
-        line = input.read(BUFSIZE)
-        if not line: break
-        output.write(line)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_mimetools.py b/Lib/test/test_mimetools.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 1dc9178..0000000
--- a/Lib/test/test_mimetools.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-import unittest
-from test import support
-
-import string, mimetools
-import io
-
-msgtext1 = mimetools.Message(io.StringIO(
-"""Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-Foo!
-"""))
-
-sample = bytes(string.ascii_letters + "=" + string.digits + "\n", "ASCII")
-
-class MimeToolsTest(unittest.TestCase):
-
-    def decode_encode_test(self, enc):
-        i = io.BytesIO(sample)
-        o = io.BytesIO()
-        mimetools.encode(i, o, enc)
-        i = io.BytesIO(o.getvalue())
-        o = io.BytesIO()
-        mimetools.decode(i, o, enc)
-        self.assertEqual(o.getvalue(), sample)
-
-    # Separate tests for better diagnostics
-
-    def test_7bit(self):
-        self.decode_encode_test('7bit')
-
-    def test_8bit(self):
-        self.decode_encode_test('8bit')
-
-    def test_base64(self):
-        self.decode_encode_test('base64')
-
-    def test_quoted_printable(self):
-        self.decode_encode_test('quoted-printable')
-
-    def test_uuencode(self):
-        self.decode_encode_test('uuencode')
-
-    def test_x_uuencode(self):
-        self.decode_encode_test('x-uuencode')
-
-    def test_uue(self):
-        self.decode_encode_test('uue')
-
-    def test_x_uue(self):
-        self.decode_encode_test('x-uue')
-
-    def test_boundary(self):
-        s = set([""])
-        for i in range(100):
-            nb = mimetools.choose_boundary()
-            self.assert_(nb not in s)
-            s.add(nb)
-
-    def test_message(self):
-        msg = mimetools.Message(io.StringIO(str(msgtext1)))
-        self.assertEqual(msg.gettype(), "text/plain")
-        self.assertEqual(msg.getmaintype(), "text")
-        self.assertEqual(msg.getsubtype(), "plain")
-        self.assertEqual(msg.getplist(), ["charset=iso-8859-1", "format=flowed"])
-        self.assertEqual(msg.getparamnames(), ["charset", "format"])
-        self.assertEqual(msg.getparam("charset"), "iso-8859-1")
-        self.assertEqual(msg.getparam("format"), "flowed")
-        self.assertEqual(msg.getparam("spam"), None)
-        self.assertEqual(msg.getencoding(), "8bit")
-
-def test_main():
-    support.run_unittest(MimeToolsTest)
-
-if __name__=="__main__":
-    test_main()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fcd4623..fee9c5e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- mimetools has been removed in favor of the email package
+
 - Patch #2849: Remove use of rfc822 module from standard library.
 
 - Added C optimized implementation of io.StringIO.