diff --git a/Doc/library/email.policy.rst b/Doc/library/email.policy.rst
--- a/Doc/library/email.policy.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.policy.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 .. module:: email.policy
    :synopsis: Controlling the parsing and generating of messages
 
-.. versionadded: 3.3
+.. versionadded:: 3.3
 
 
 The :mod:`email` package's prime focus is the handling of email messages as
@@ -48,16 +48,18 @@ file on disk and pass it to the system `
    >>> import email.policy
    >>> from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
    >>> with open('mymsg.txt', 'b') as f:
-   ...     Msg = msg_from_binary_file(f, policy=email.policy.mbox)
+   ...     msg = msg_from_binary_file(f, policy=email.policy.mbox)
    >>> p = Popen(['sendmail', msg['To'][0].address], stdin=PIPE)
    >>> g = BytesGenerator(p.stdin, policy=email.policy.SMTP)
    >>> g.flatten(msg)
    >>> p.stdin.close()
    >>> rc = p.wait()
 
+.. XXX email.policy.mbox does not exist yet
+
 Some email package methods accept a *policy* keyword argument, allowing the
 policy to be overridden for that method.  For example, the following code uses
-the :meth:`email.message.Message.as_string` method of the *msg* object from the
+the :meth:`~email.message.Message.as_string` method of the *msg* object from the
 previous example and re-write it to a file using the native line separators for
 the platform on which it is running::