diff --git a/Lib/email/__init__.py b/Lib/email/__init__.py
index f7759b7..fd129a3 100644
--- a/Lib/email/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/email/__init__.py
@@ -59,3 +59,12 @@
         from email.Message import Message
         _class = Message
     return Parser(_class, strict=strict).parse(fp)
+
+
+
+# Patch encodings.aliases to recognize 'ansi_x3.4_1968' which isn't a standard
+# alias in Python 2.1.3, but is used by the email package test suite.
+from encodings.aliases import aliases # The aliases dictionary
+if not aliases.has_key('ansi_x3.4_1968'):
+    aliases['ansi_x3.4_1968'] = 'ascii'
+del aliases # Not needed any more
diff --git a/Lib/email/test/test_email.py b/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
index 07460b9..4599156 100644
--- a/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
@@ -1470,12 +1470,6 @@
         self._idempotent(msg, text)
 
     def test_more_rfc2231_parameters(self):
-        # BAW: What to do about this.  Python 2.1 doesn't know about the
-        # charset ansi-x3.4-1968, so this test will fail.  Do we teach Python
-        # about that charset, and if so, where (maybe Charset.py)?  For now,
-        # just skip this test if we aren't at least in Python 2.2.
-        if sys.hexversion < 0x20200000:
-            return
         msg, text = self._msgobj('msg_33.txt')
         self._idempotent(msg, text)
 
@@ -2258,12 +2252,6 @@
 """)
 
     def test_rfc2231_get_content_charset(self):
-        # BAW: What to do about this.  Python 2.1 doesn't know about the
-        # charset ansi-x3.4-1968, so this test will fail.  Do we teach Python
-        # about that charset, and if so, where (maybe Charset.py)?  For now,
-        # just skip this test if we aren't at least in Python 2.2.
-        if sys.hexversion < 0x20200000:
-            return
         eq = self.assertEqual
         msg = self._msgobj('msg_32.txt')
         eq(msg.get_content_charset(), 'us-ascii')