Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: Martin says: "I cannot see any particular circumstances where unencrypted passwords for smtpd would be acceptable, given that there are perfectly established technologies. So I remain -1 on this patch."
Here's a use case: a testing SMTP server, such as lazr.smtptest which is built on top of smtpd. In some testing scenarios, you really don't care about STARTTLS complications, and everything's connecting over localhost anyway. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21935> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com