[issue33741] UnicodeEncodeError onsmtplib.login(MAIL_USER, MAIL_PASSWORD)

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[issue33741] UnicodeEncodeError onsmtplib.login(MAIL_USER, MAIL_PASSWORD)

R. David Murray added the comment: Duplicate of #29750. TLDR: smtplib needs to be fixed to handle binary passwords, and probably to use utf-8 as the default encoding for unicode passwords. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed

[issue33741] UnicodeEncodeError onsmtplib.login(MAIL_USER, MAIL_PASSWORD)

Tal Einat added the comment: We definitely need an expert to weigh in on this. -- nosy: +giampaolo.rodola ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33741] UnicodeEncodeError onsmtplib.login(MAIL_USER, MAIL_PASSWORD)

Lars Pötter added the comment: I wanted to login to an existing account so the password works OK in Thunderbird. Here in Germany it is recommended for safe passwords to use the German umlauts(ßÄÖÜäöü). So code page 437 vs 850 or UTF-8 ? If I could pass in the bytes then I could figure out

[issue33741] UnicodeEncodeError onsmtplib.login(MAIL_USER, MAIL_PASSWORD)

Tal Einat added the comment: Is this a bug? Are passwords containing non-ASCII characters supposed to be supported? If so, which encoding should be assumed for the password? Since it needs to be base64-encoded, it must be encoded into bytes. -- nosy: +taleinat

[issue33741] UnicodeEncodeError onsmtplib.login(MAIL_USER, MAIL_PASSWORD)

New submission from Lars Pötter : if the password contains non ascii characters then the login fails: >>> smtObj.login(MAIL_USER, MAIL_PASSWORD) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/lib/python3.5/smtplib.py", line 720, in login