diff --git a/gestion/email_tools.py b/gestion/email_tools.py
index 2a3f302f..57422878 100644
--- a/gestion/email_tools.py
+++ b/gestion/email_tools.py
@@ -10,27 +10,13 @@ Autres outils relatifs aux mails.
 format_sender et send_email adaptés depuis /usr/scripts/impression/crans_backend.py.
 """
 
+
 import re
 
+import gestion.mail as mail_module
+# TODO deprecated
 
-def format_sender(sender, header_charset='utf-8'):
-    """
-    Check and format sender for header.
-    """
-    from email.Header import Header
-    from email.Utils import parseaddr, formataddr
-
-    # Split real name (which is optional) and email address parts
-    sender_name, sender_addr = parseaddr(sender)
-
-    # We must always pass Unicode strings to Header, otherwise it will
-    # use RFC 2047 encoding even on plain ASCII strings.
-    sender_name = str(Header(unicode(sender_name), header_charset))
-
-    # Make sure email addresses do not contain non-ASCII characters
-    sender_addr = sender_addr.encode('ascii')
-
-    return formataddr((sender_name, sender_addr))
+format_sender = mail_module.format_sender
 
 
 def send_email(sender, recipient, subject, body, server='localhost', cc=None, debug=False, actual_sender=None):
@@ -44,13 +30,11 @@ def send_email(sender, recipient, subject, body, server='localhost', cc=None, de
     The charset of the email will be the first one out of US-ASCII or UTF-8
     that can represent all the characters occurring in the email.
 
-    Argument server maybe a string, indicating the name of the SMTP server, or
-    directly an instance of smtplib.SMTP.
+    Argument server is ignored.
 
     The resulting mail will be sent to debug if not False.
     Otherwise, it will be sent to recipient and cc.
     """
-    from smtplib import SMTP
     from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
     from email.Header import Header
 
@@ -90,13 +74,8 @@ def send_email(sender, recipient, subject, body, server='localhost', cc=None, de
         actual_sender = sender
 
     # Send the message
-    if isinstance(server, SMTP):
-        server.sendmail(actual_sender, actual_recipient, msg.as_string())
-    else:
-        smtp = SMTP()
-        smtp.connect(server)
+    with mail_module.ServerConnection() as smtp:
         smtp.sendmail(actual_sender, actual_recipient, msg.as_string())
-        smtp.quit()
 
 
 def parse_mail_template(fichier):
diff --git a/gestion/mail/mail.py b/gestion/mail/mail.py
index bfded41a..3e73a4af 100644
--- a/gestion/mail/mail.py
+++ b/gestion/mail/mail.py
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ from locale_util import setlocale
 
 if '/usr/scripts' not in sys.path:
     sys.path.append('/usr/scripts')
-from gestion.email_tools import format_sender
 from gestion import secrets_new as secrets
 
 default_language = 'fr'
@@ -157,6 +156,26 @@ def validation_url(view_name, data='', debug=False):
 
     return ROOT + req.text.encode('utf-8')
 
+def format_sender(sender, header_charset='utf-8'):
+    """
+    Check and format sender for header.
+    """
+    from email.Header import Header
+    from email.Utils import parseaddr, formataddr
+
+    # Split real name (which is optional) and email address parts
+    sender_name, sender_addr = parseaddr(sender)
+
+    # We must always pass Unicode strings to Header, otherwise it will
+    # use RFC 2047 encoding even on plain ASCII strings.
+    sender_name = str(Header(unicode(sender_name), header_charset))
+
+    # Make sure email addresses do not contain non-ASCII characters
+    sender_addr = sender_addr.encode('ascii')
+
+    return formataddr((sender_name, sender_addr))
+
+
 class ServerConnection(object):
     """Connexion au serveur smtp"""
     _conn = None