Deprecated classes and methods
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+.. deprecated:: 2.6
+
Older versions of the :mod:`mailbox` module do not support modification of
mailboxes, such as adding or removing message, and do not provide classes to
represent format-specific message properties. For backward compatibility, the
older mailbox classes are still available, but the newer classes should be used
-in preference to them.
+in preference to them. The old classes will be removed in Python 3.0.
Older mailbox objects support only iteration and provide a single public method: