diff -r ef03aff3b195 Doc/includes/email-rfc5322.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/Doc/includes/email-rfc5322.py	Thu Dec 22 10:14:41 2016 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Import smtplib for the actual sending function
+import smtplib
+
+# Import the email modules we'll need
+from email.mime.text import MIMEText
+from email.utils import formatdate
+# Open a plain text file for reading.  For this example, assume that
+# the text file contains only ASCII characters.
+fp = open(textfile, 'rb')
+# Create a text/plain message
+msg = MIMEText(fp.read())
+fp.close()
+
+# me == the sender's email address
+# you == the recipient's email address
+msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' % textfile
+msg['From'] = me
+msg['To'] = you
+msg['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True)
+
+# Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the
+# envelope header.
+s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
+s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())
+s.quit()
+
diff -r ef03aff3b195 Doc/library/email-examples.rst
--- a/Doc/library/email-examples.rst	Wed Dec 21 23:43:50 2016 -0500
+++ b/Doc/library/email-examples.rst	Thu Dec 22 10:14:41 2016 -0500
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 
 .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-simple.py
 
+The next one is a email following the minimal requirement of RFC5322:
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-rfc5322.py
 
 And parsing RFC822 headers can easily be done by the parse(filename) or
 parsestr(message_as_string) methods of the Parser() class: