diff --git a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
index 5363120..070220e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
@@ -364,3 +364,8 @@
    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`.