[issue2849] Remove usage of rfc822 from the stdlib

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> added the comment:

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Humberto Diogenes
<report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
> Humberto Diogenes <humberto at digi.com.br> added the comment:
>
> With the attached patches, rfc822 won't be used anywhere inside Lib/
> anymore (with the exception of mimetools, which is going away too).
>
> Is there any reason to convert the files below? Shouldn't they be removed
> from 3.0?
> Demo/scripts/mboxconvert.py -> superseded by mailbox.py
> Tools/faqwiz/faqwiz.py -> really old (1998)
> Tools/scripts/mailerdaemon.py -> still useful?
> Tools/versioncheck/pyversioncheck.py -> really old (1997)
>

Probably. I bet both the Demo and Tools directory need a thorough clean-up.

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